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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937.

THE CHINA ASSOCIATION WHITEAWAY'S LAUDS CHIANG KAI-SHEK S A LE

ANNUAL REPORT CLAIMS Fear Forces

COUNTRY SHOWS MUCH Father To

HAPPIER OUTLOOK

The China Association has issued there is a serious rice shortage; in its report for the June quarter of Shansi the outlook for harvests in bud, while famine is widespread in

1037.

is interesting in so far as it Szechuan, Honan, Kunsu and Shenst

It is impossible, accordingly, gives a resume of what it considera

to

Suicide

Neath (Glamorgan),

June 28. EARING that silicosis (the

form of lung disease caused j to be the state of Chinn at the pre-make any accurate, general state- by working in an atmosphere sent moment and the that statement about the peasantry's purchas-containing sillea dusi) would ments are appended.

prevent him from working, a miner aged 47, father of seven children, blew himself to pieces with gelignite.

tag power.

:

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

on

of

China's Domestic Affairs, Political. The most important fact In China's It may be added that there is an domestic affairs during the past interesting paragraph quarter has been the steady increase affairs as follows:

foreign In the prestige of General Chiang

At the inquest to-day on the man, Kai-shek. For some time after his "Yet, as far as exports are con- David John Lewis, of Crynant, Neath, release from captivity on December cerned, total values for the first Ave it was stated that fragments would weaken his position in the bigger than they were during the followed by a cloud of smoke. 25 It was feared that "loss of face" months of 1037 were considerably Lewis's body were found in a wood at Crynant after a loud explosion, yes of the country at large. All corresponding period last year, while

agger, however, that the values were also larger, the Lewis placed accounts

A

policeman said it appeared that reverse has been the ease,

(as

telegraphed to The Times

geliglie and black Apart from North-west and from Shanghel on June 20) being powder an

the

forge

rge stone, attached a the territories in which Japancre approximately, Exports $352,000,000, fuse, lighted it, and laty across the policy

the uncertainties, imports $537,000,000. Great Britain stone till creates

explosion occurred, A doctor's evidence was that an

still

part

numely, Suiyuan and Eustera Hovel, / share of the import trade was 11.76, x-ray examination of Lewis showed

there appear now to be only two that of the United States being 19.46. Japan's was 19 and Germany's 14,74,"

areas in which the Central Govern- ment has not yet succeeded in con- solidating its authority, North West Fukien and Szechuan. In the for- mer banditry is rife and is spilling over into sections

Klangsi and Chekiang

Public buses, mall boats, travellers and villagers are belag constantly looted,

Szechuan In serious trouble threatened to break out towards the end of May between Provincial and Government troops.

Perhaps the following additional note may be of interest:

"The chief subjects which have reupled the Committee since the annual meeting have been Shanghai and questions, the proposals made at the Imperial Conference by Mr. Lyons for a Pacific Pact and the] United

traces of ellicosis, and that Lewis was to have been examined by the Sillcoals Board this week.

Lewis, he added, was depressed because he could not return to work. Lewis took his life by means of ex- The Jury returned a verdict that plosives while of unbalanced mind and suffering from silicosia.

LEFT THE NAVY

Kingdom's import duty on WHY LIEUT. MAYO part of whom the Nanking Govern China tea. The Chinese Delegates ment wishes to disband. It was to the Coronation were entertained averted by a compromise detalls of at dinner at Vintners' Hall on May which have "not, up to the time of 21. writing, been published, the latest report being a Reuter telegram to the effect that a formula satisfactory to all parties had been found.

OUTLOOK IMPROVING

In Kwangtung and Kwongsi the outlook appears to be improving steadily, an important feature of revent progress in Kwangtung being

Apact from offelal guests, the number of members and their friends who attended the Reception at Gros- venor House on June 22 totailed! 100.

Mr. C. Kirk-

SEQUEL TO MOTOR CASE

A charge of driving under the in- fluence of drink falled.

Lleut. William Lee Mayo's resigna- iton from the Navy recently was The following have been elected stated at Dorset Quarter Sessions to members of the Association: Lt. have been the result of a motoring Commander J. C. Croome, R.N.,.case. Messrs. G. S. Sate, Nigel Gresley costs, and disqualified for a year for an increase both in the salt revenue and F. A. Wells.

Mayo was Aned £30, with £40 and in the portion of It handed over patrick's nume is being proposed at dangerous driving. to the Nanking Ministry of Finance.the next meeting." 1.c. $4,022,195 for the six ending April 30, 1037 as compared with $2,563,237

during the spine perio

In Kwangsi 1936. authorities are collaborating with the Central Government in currency reform, the eventual aim of which is substitution of Central for Pro- vincial, Government notes.

of

months

the

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Economic conditions have also on the whole satisfactory. According to the statistics published

been

"GHOST" FIRE

KILLS WOMAN

The charges were the outcome of an accident at Dorchester on April 7, when a motorist, Mr. Basil Waine. and Mayo were in collision. Mrs. Ivy A. Walne said that the accident occurred

three days before her

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marriage and she received a broken Whiteaway-Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

No evidence was called for the

Wet Clothes Blaze Up defence, and Mayo's counsel (Mr.

Jaipur (Assam), June 28.

W. M. Walker) told the nugistrates that Mayo had already suffered

by the Nations) Agricultural Bureau, ing in a

Mysterious fires have been occurr-punishinent because he had resigned THE JOY AND PLEASURE OF HAVING A NEW there were increased summer crops suddenly burst into flames and are Tie Chairman (Mr. E. H. Sykes) PAIR OF SHOES CAN BE HAD AT LITTLE COST.

Jaipur house. Clothes commission as a result of the

arc

in 1930 of kaoliang, cotton, peanuts reduced to ashes before there is time and sesame, with decreases in rice, to put the fire out. millet, corn and year's total

soya beans. The stated by the

crops, however,

Wet clothes hanging, clothes lock- Customs. Statistical cd in steel trunks have been burned Secretary to have been worth $3,000 way before the eyes of several more than in 1935. To what People, including the deputy police extent, if any, the average peasant chiel. Jas benefited from this is doubtful. For instance, the price of unbusked woman has been burned to death.

In ore fre, storled in this way, a rice at Ningpo In 1936 was $2.50 per picul. Towards the end of 1930 it haunted and that a similar series of

The townspeople say the house was $1.00 per pleul. In Kwelehow fires occurred forty years ago.

case.

pointed out that the case had not been tried then and the resignation could THEREFORE not have been the result of it.

Me Walker replied instructed that it was.

that he was his resignation about a week after Mayo sent in the police court proceedings.

There had been other matters, which prob-: ably they had read of in the Press, resignation. Now, at the age of 27, but those had not to do with the Mayo had to start life over again with his career gone.

JUES

TROUBLE IN BELGIUM-Angry former soldiers of Belgium, now members of the Fascist Croix de Feu organization, buried their hero medals at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Brussels, in a demonstration, as above. They were aroused over what they called the "traltors amnesty" for persons condemned after the World War for treason during hostilities.

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