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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1937.

'WE COULD HAVE OCCUPIED

TOKYO WAR MINISTER

ON 1933 FIGHTING.

Territorial Ambitions

Denied

Tokyo, April 1.

"THE withdrawal of the Japanese troops from North China in 1933 after the conquest of Jehol, was cited by Gen. Sugiyama, Minister of War, as evidence of the Empire's lack of territorial ambitions on the Asiatic .continent.

"I

"Had we wished to occupy Pelping and Tientsin, we could have done so easily," he said, "Instead wo immediately with- drew our forces."

ARMY AIMS

BELIEVE that if the Chinese| persist in charging us with such ambitions, they are doing it to arouse anu-Japanese feeling at home.

EXPLAINED

Mr. Toyotaro Yuki, Minister of Fin- ance, in a reply, deplored economic nationalism prevalling in the world and declared that Japan would parti- cipate in an internatiorial economic conference should such a meeting be

"The Government is convinced that Sino-Japanese relations can be im- proved by means of economie co-called. operation and we are straining every effort in that direction."

AIMS OF NAVAL BUILDING__ This statement was made by Gen.

Japan's naval armaments are being! Sugiyama in reply to Mr. Juli Kasai, replenished "to render foreign aggreg- Independent, during a debate at a slon in the Western Pacific impossible plenary session of the Lower House and also to make their silent in- over the Government's bill for a revi-fluence felt in time, so as 10 glon of the Low on Cultural Enter-fullinte the execution of national prises in China.

policies was the exposition of the Navy's aims made in the Lower Chamber by Vice-Admiral Mitsumasa Yonal, Navy Minister.

CHINESE APPRECIATION Mr. Kasai, who visited China in January, vigorously scorned the Gov- ernment's alleged failure in its nego- tiation with China.

"Does the Government really in- tend

Japan's present naval construction plans, the Navy Minister said, are "unlikely" to precipitate an inter-

of the term

to readjust Sino-Japanese rela-national ship-building race and that tlon?" he asked.

the present international situation Gen. Sugiyama replied that the and the state of affairs at home did

the use Government still adhered to the three not warrant

"time of crisis." basic principles enunciated by Mr. Kiki

Mr. Yukio Ozaki, Liberal Indepen- | Hirota, Premier in the last Cabinet.

dent, and only member of the Lower Hour, who has kept his seat in the 47 years of Japanese parilamentary history, submitted a ten point ques- tonnaire urging the Government to divulge to people the real cause of the downfall of the previous Hirotn Cabinet and also questions procedure followed in the appoint- ment of the Wor

Because of the recent development in the means of communications, Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, said the Chinese people are learning of events in Japon much more speedily than be

fore,

#

better

the

LIE - DOWNERS Woolworthi executives refused to negotiate with 100 striking girls In the largest of the five-and-ten cent stores in Detroit. So the girls stuck to the store, changing their positions from sit-down to ile- down, as night came on. Here are some of them who spread their blankets in the alsies und prepared to dream of higher wages. One girl, in back-ground, writes a note to her parents-or to her boy friend.

£1,000 Wanted- for 11 MS. Leaves

A sum of £1,000 is being

asked for 11 leaves of a manuscript written in tho eighth century.

This treasure was written in the earliest days of North- umbrian Christianity,, and its is extremely

beautiful. Minister in the pre-

penmanship The Chinese people are thus get ting

understanding of Japan," Mr. Horinouchi declared.

"But that does not help Chinese newspapers in understanding Japan."

sent Government.

Eager to strengthen Japan's civil avinilon, which could be put to mili- Mr. Setsuo Kotaal, Minselto, assert-tary uses in time of war, the Army éd from his

disclosed its intention to sponsor an rising also asked if the lettery, ernment had "definite plans to shake hands with the pepole of China so as to brighten up the relations between the two countries,"

SOVIET "COMPLEX"

In reply to a question, the Premier, Gen. Senjuro Ilayashi, declared that the Japanese Government would en- deavour to ease the frontier situation between the Soviet Union and Man- chuituo and bald he did not belleve! that the Soviet Union had "a pro- vocative intent" towards Japan.

Soviet

In the Far East, he

The 11 leaves are in the market, and an offort is being made to retain them in this country.

"GROOM THE OLD

"Suid-prechend with a superiority) ----

lex" which, he

to cross the

Under such

LION" CALL TO

BRITISH YOUTH

A.Striking call to the youth_of_Britain was made tempted by one of her most famous sailors, Admiral Sir E. R. G. R.

cessary for conditions, it was ne- Evans, "Evans of the Broke," when he delivered his

10 Increase her

sirenih in Mange Yonus,

Vice Admiral Minister

of the Navy, declared that the Japanese Navy, now had scientific

equipment as efficient, if not more sa in some respects," as other navies.

Ilo also revealed that a concrete plan had been worked out by the Navy and the Army to defend Tokyo and other important elles against air raids.

Princess Takes Her First Ride

IN ELEVATOR

London, Apr. 1. Flaxen-haired, blue-eyed, six, year-old Princess Margaret Rose, daughter of the King and Queen, has discovered the delights of working the elevator at Bucking- ham Palace.

The quarters of Princess Elizabeth, aged 18, and Margaret Rose are located on the second. Bloor of the Palace. Their nurses use the self

address as Lord Rector of Aberdeen University recently.

PEIPING

Mrs. Simpson's Plane With Wardrobe

For Easter

COST £800

Engines Inside Wings

HEAVY-OIL MACHINES: By MARY FENTRESS

DEMAND FOR TESTS By An Aeronautical Correspondent Paris, Mar. 31. Stylists who have seen they can be entirely buried with- Acro-engines designed so that Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simp-in the wings of the aeroplanes son's Easter wardrobe were predicted by Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, Chief Engineer of the estimate that it cost her Royal Aeronautical Society last about £800.

selected

night.

Mr. Fedden, who has been respon- Five costumes

by sible for one of the most remarkable Mrs. Simpson from Molyneux'aero-engine developments of recent spring collection, which has just years the perfection of the sleeve- valve type divided the engines been shown on

French likely to be chiefly needed in future || Riviera, offered further proof of into four categories, extending from

the good taste' for which the 750 h.p. to 2,000 h.p. American divorcee is noted.

the

for

The 750 h.p. type would be needed twin-engined destroyer And multi-seat figliter seroplanes,

The simple but elegant clothes now being made for her do not in- clude bridal trousseau but just sup- "I think," said Mr. Fedden, "that plement her wardrobe until her there is justification for serious con- expected marclage in May to Edward,sideration of the flat engine entirety Duke of Windsor.

buried in the envelope of the wing SILVER FOX COAT

for these types of aircraft. Some 18 months ago the Bristal Company Most impressive Item of her spring produced a lay-out for such an wardrobe is a luxurious silver fox engine; but urgency of other work, coat. Ordinary silver fox capes are and the need for an entirely new made up of seven skins, but 10 technique of aircraft design prevent- specially selected, long, rich skins ed it from receiving serious consi- are going into the cape selected by deration. Mrs. Simpson.

the cont cost at least £600.

Judging from current Paris prices,

"Provided a sumciently bold and speclalised step can be justined for military purposes for the highest Like all of Mrs. Simpson's clothes, ideal solution for the future for the speeds, it is believed that this is the the coat is simple but smart. Lux-smallest category of engine." urious skins are worked lengthwise

"There has been a good deal of 'go-as-you-please' into both long sleeves and into the itself, which hangs in soft full;

recent years, especially in the immediate post-war years what I call the joy-ride and cocktail years, which seem

to have got us nowhere," the Admiral declared.

"We have allowed the foreigner | thought to your sense of duty and to fool us, and to engage in a. good better it if you can.

FIGHTERS' SPEED

to swished by round collar unade from the darker these twin-engined fighting nero-

part of the fur.

Mr. Fedden gives a speed of be- folds just below the hipline. The|

small tween 425 m.p.h. and 450 m.ph, for pinnes of the future. He regards it ps certain that the twin-engined type will gradually replace all single- engined machines for all purposes. And he puts the demand ratio of military over civil aero engines as eight to one.

- EVENING GOWNS For evening wear Mrs. Simpson selected a satin gown and a jacket deal of tail-twisting, but the old "There is a vast amount of self-in her favourite shade of blue British lion

light blue tinged very slightly with is waking up and not to face adventure, keep your silver

gray. The gown is a closc stretching his limbs and no sue youthful enthusiasm and freshness, Atting sheath to below the knees man will ever pull a live lion's tail: discipline Involved, frugal living, where the skirt flats out slightly to Britannia has fished up the trident frankness and fair dealing, but if you the floor. which she cast Into the sea after the young Scots men and women fear Washington Conference, Shipyards and hold high the torch of duty, the and factories are humming and world is at your feet.. prosperity is in the offing,"

"Evans of the Broke" appealed to the students to look back upon tho peerless soldiers, saliors and airmen who had made the supreme sacrifice for their freedom from serfdom and dictatorships, and he asked them to frame up

com-

Another type of engine he consi- dered was the compression Ignition or heavy oil engine, and he stated that in his opinion the 'moment had arrived for the development of this It has a low cut decolete back with type to be tackled quickly on high the front supported by satin straps pelority. "I submit that it warrants which form a halter about the neck. sufficient money being set aside for A kailored short jacket worn with its development, and the best brains Our future as a nation depended it has wide revers (correct) and In the country being concentrated on on is youth, in whose hands lay fustens with buttons of light blue

the key to power, the destiny of mirror glass matched by rectangular our whole Empire, and of Uint sco- blue mirror belt buckle.

tion of humanity that belleves above all in fair play-In giving

SPRING COAT

1.

Mr. Fedden alluded to the inter- sivo development of the compression Ignition engine on the Continent, Speculating on the reasons for this

to each one his or her chance in For afternoon, where is a very he said he could raise no enthusiasm this moving picture called' life. severely tailored dress of black wool for the theory of a ray to cut out Sir Edward painted a glowing pic with a matching black wool coat. If the magneto of a spark Ignition manding sense of duty-a national ture of opportunities in South Africa. has a high neck finished with small engine nor could he see any real revers, which are edged with a nar-difficulty in producing considerable sense, a community sense, and,

In a tribute to Britain's sailors Sir row band of white crepe down the quantities of petrol at a reasonably above all, a happy "play-for-the-Edward said: "I suppose no officer centre to the hem. A bunch of high octane value. sido" duty soust

living knows the bluejacket better white snowdropa on green stems are 靄 fur thrust through a narrow black belt, than I do. I have slept in sleeping bag, between two of them

"Every section of political thought working electric elevator when they is agreed that we must have a bitter take the children to see their parents and finer nation and that we must on the ground floor,

The first time they used the eleva-room up, and exercise the old

British llori.

SELF-IMPOSED TASK

tor, Margaret Rose gazed silently at the row of buttons. She watched her nurse push one, and felt the elevator 'dropping away beneath her. It was

a new and delightful sensation.

When the elevator stopped at theby giving Jally

ground floor, Margaret Rose refused

it.

wanted to push

"I want you to emulate these folk

sink and

your menner

selves in your lives

baltons, too. Let me do it. Let me She Got Her Man

do it," she clamoured.

Finally her nurse gave way, and lifted the baby princess in her arms. But Margaret Rose pushed the wrong button, and the elevator rushed down to the basement. Margaret Rose. was dalighted.

Now, however, she has learnt that the white button is "down" and the black button "up". And it is her dally treat it she has been a good, girl-when she and her sister join the se King and Queen'dor afternoon tea, to stand on the seat and work the elevator,

Her face crinkles with merriment as the elevator gildes swiftly an

and silently down-United, FreeR

**Chicago, Apr. 1. Chicago police have issued a warrant for the arest of Mar- garet Eustice, aged 35, who is alleged to have kidnapped a law yer, or caused him to be kid- napped, and forced him (with a pistol) to marry her:

The warant alleges that Mar- garet was one of six persons who kidnapped Mr. Quin O'Brien, aged 06, assistant counsel to the Chicago City Corporation, and took him to Morrison, Illinois United Press.

for 120 days on end, without washing waist and a wide swing skirt. A

A spring cont has a fitted beltless Court shaving, or even cleaning my teeth collarless neck and small revers as For 40 years I have lived with them well as the front opening are edged and loved and trusted them from the with a looped design of silk cord

very beginning.

gregoma

braiding. "We Imperial Service men," he Basket weave work in concluded, "know that the world is shade between belge and gray-has changing and changing very fast been chosen for a spring street cos- We recognise that. If we are to main-tume. it consists of a straight tal- fain our national independence and lored skirt and

vest a mannisti preserve our freedoms, we must steal Instead of a blouse, worn under a ourselves to give our very best to the loose grege wool cost which comes Stato."

the hipline-United Press.

BILL

TO STOP DOGS BARKING AT NIGHT

A

Copenhagen, Apr. 1.

BILL to prevent dogs barking at night is being considered by. the Danish Parliament. Even during the day: dors, “must not bark steadily." If they do they may be arrested. Exactly how owners are to make their dogs, no law-abiding has not yet been revealed-Reuter.

Frees Blonde Bride

Of 'Love Cell'

Paris, Apr. 1. LOVE was judged guilty of breaking the law, sentenced but set free, at the Seine Assizes, to-day.

in

And so this evening pale and young Christiane pretty blonde Pelissier, who spent her honeymoon a comfortably furnished prison cell, from which she engineered the escups to Belgium of her ex-banker husband, walked from the court room free. So did the sentimental gaoler. Leonel Vallet, who furnished and let the "love cell" at £5 à virit.

Christiano pas three years of sus- panded imprisonment; Valiot, the gaoler, one year,

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