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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937.

JAPANESE IMPORTS FROM S. AMERICA INCREASE BY 440 PER CENT. IN 2 YEARS

LATIN AMERICA'S BALANCE OF TRADE

NOW FAVOURABLE

(By HENRY WOOD)

United Press Stag Correspondent

DEVELOPING OWN INDUSTRIES

Peru, which abrogated their treaties As regards Colombia, Ecuador and

with Japan when the latter began to inundate them with cotton and other goods, the institute is inform-

government ed, the Japanese seeking to negotiate new treaties with them, which will enable Japan to recapture these markets.

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San Francisco. ↑ past two years to increased exports The startling increase of Japanese there of wool und cotton. imports from South America has been one of the most outstanding and overlooked developments in foreign trade, necording to a recent survey of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Whereas only a short time ago tears were entertained that Central and South America would be swamp ed with cheap Japanese goods. It now develops, the Institute finds, that while in the past

years operated two Japanese exports to Latin America have increased only 5 per cent, Latin American exports to Japan have in ereased 440 per cent.

Latin America as

The balance of trade with Japan is now favourable in every respect to whole. Latin Amerlenn exports to Japan for 1030 alone are placed by the Institute at Yen 133,081,000,

imports Japanese

from the countries of the southern continent are found to have increased by 370 per cent since 1934, reaching a total of Yen 112,200,000 in 1930, while Japanese exports to South America, increased only to Yen 00,000,000, a decrease of Yen 4,500,000 over 1935. Argentina, the Institute reveals, which is Japan's largest customer and source of raw materials in Latin

increased America to Japan of cotton.

Still one other thing which has in South America, the Institute finds, to decrease the flow there of Japanese-made goods, is the continuous development within the larger Latin American countries, themselves of dor

of domestic industries; and the increased competition of the! United States, England, Germany and other European countries, all of which the Institute finds, are Indiea- tlons of a new period of activity and prosperity in Latin Amerien.

The only portion of the Jatter where Japan has succeeded in main- taining something of her former hold un the markets is Central America. This, the Institute reports, is due to

the fact that the Central Amerlean countries are handicapped by the

little fact htey have so

to offer Japan in return for the large volume! Japanese have been able to place on of cotton and rayon texilles that

their markets.

To maintain their balance of trade.

George Brent will have to be very much of a diplomat to settle affoirs amicably in the above situation. It sachin an though the beautiful Jenn Arthur resents very much the presence of the Dorothea Kent. The above is one of the romantle infies the stars, Jenn Arthur and George Brent, become involved in "Mare Than A Secretary," Columbia comedy showing on Friday at the King's Theatre.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER WHY AVIATORS SUFFER

FROM HEADACHES-

By CHARLES WRICHT

United Press Staff Correspondent

Denver.

the Institute reports that virtually they have blamed the

in

Prof. H. H. Nininger Secretary of,

Society for Research

Jor

STRAPPED TO

CAMEL

SHIRT

BARGAINS

STRIPED POPLIN TUNIC SHIRTS

COAT STYLE. 2 COLLARS TO MATCH EACH

Old Malay's Six Days' USUALLY $6.50 Ride With Broken Leg

KICKED BY WILD HORSE

Perth.

$3.00

WHITE POPLIN COLLAR ATTACHED SHIRTS (Slightly Soiled) USUALLY $6.50 TO GO AT $1.50

WITH a doubly-fractured and

mutilated leg a 90-year-old | ALL Malay, Joby, rode for six days, strapped to a camel. Then he mado a 100-mile ride in a truck to Wyndham. Full details of this amazing experience were re- vealed when Joby arrived at the Wyndham Hospital.

The Malay, the owner of a team of camels, was kicked by a half-wild horse while he wna attempting to drive it ahead of him to Wild Dog Creek.

One of the flying hooves caught the Malay on one jeg, breaking both bones and throwing him to the ground.

He was more thun 40 miles from the nearest habitation Argyle cattle station, and 150 miles from any

medical assistance. He had no nl- ternative other than to call one of kls camels, which came and knelt {beside ulm,

Then slowly and painfully the injured clambered on to its back und strapped himself securely on.

Although at times la agony must have been almost unbearable he forced the camel lowards Argyle, which ho reached after six days of lumbering, heart-breaking travel.

years of falls and localities, she said, Scientists confess that all along although In Europe there was a slight

tendency for falls to occur in groups. wrong of five-year prelods. The year 18800

Ho was more dead than alive alt the Central American countries things for causing a constant had most recorded falls.

when he reached the cattle station, America, showed a favourable trade are enacting various restrictions such buzzing in the carphones of air-

Can Ahearn, a Wyndham truck balance with Japan in 1930 as did, as tarifa, exchange control, re-

driver, was, at Argyle finishing the Peru, Chlie, Uruguay and Brazil. nunciation of treaties and demands plane pilots and the ground the Part of the reason for this lies in the for barter trade agreements to offset crews. But the pilots, who have Meteorites, told of the elusiveness of unloading of stores.

The Malay was in a bad way tram exports

South popularity which Japanese goods the biggest headaches, are most the celestial metal. A fall recorded

1918 near Norfolk. Ark, was not when his camel reeled in to Argyle," had found on their markets.

interested in a "cure."

revealed until May, 1933, he reported, Ahearn said. "The bottom half ut Although this has resulted in TLI balance of trade still remains favour-meteorologists cruised the stacking of Japanese imports, A group of engineers, scientists and and a complete record was not prehis leg was just swaying with every

nented to the selentists until the eur-step the animal took. able to Japan. The latter is now for three months searching for alr-

airlanes rent meeting.

I fixed a splint for him and trying to secure new treaties with craft radio static. First they learned knowledge, Robert E. Horton, Con-pital without further delny."

Itecent

advances in hydrologie travellett all night to get him to hos- they weren't looking in the right sulting Hydraulic Engineer of Mexico, the Institute Ands, in the tinues in spite of the fact that Argen-† only country between the Rio Grande place for the source of the impale- Voorheesville, N.Y, reported, reven] condition is reported to be satisfac-

ment of communication between that broad general conclusions at to and the Amazon which for the past ground crews and plane forces,

the beneßetal effects of furests or two years has been able to maintaln with

Finally, they learned where to look, otherwise in curbing floods are nel-

ther Justified nor Japan-due largely to the Japanese it was reported to the Amerienne

supported by Importation from Mexico of

scientific data. raw Association for the Advancement of cotton and zinc. However, this year Science at the 100th meeting here, surface runoff and its regulater, In- After a a lengthy consideration on Mexico took additional steps to and reversed all the former theories.infiltration of rainfall, Horton ended maintain her Invourable trade They even are approaching a solu- balance by pulling an import tarifftton.

with the statement that the most effective methods of stream stabliza-

At the same time. however, the Institute finds, Argentina's exports to Japan of wool, wheat, oil-yielding materials, hides and skins is con- stantly on the increase. This con-

tina itself is enacting more and more stringent tariffs against Japanese goods and is openly favouring goods of-British manufacture,

Calle, the Institute, notes, is stlil maintaining the position she has kept up over a long period of years of selling more goods to Japan than she Importa. Chilean nitrates continue to be the principal export to Japan although the Japanese demand for copper has recently shown a marked increase.

In return, Chile has been second only to Argentina in South Amerlen Japanese colton goods,

alth buyer of Jalo, likeri

Chile is enacting restrictions.

Both Peru and Uruguay, the Insti-

tule finds, owe their favourable position in Japanese trade during the!

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In spite of his ordeal the Malay's

tury.

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$1.50 each

WHITEAWAY'S SALE

12

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SOCKS

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6 DOZEN FANCY SILK OPEN END TIES MUST BE CLEARED USUALLY 2.75, 2.95.

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IS TOLD OF Whiteaway-Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

SINGAPORE

or close- SINGAPORE Royal Air Force

is believed, will practically shut .H. H. Hucke, engineer in charge of tion are strip cropping, fint terracing cut several of Japan's leading exports United Air Lines' flying laboratory, and the growing of grass such as electric bulbs. and other a seven-ton, selentifically-equipped growing grains. electrical appliances.

GERMANY'S POOR

GRAIN HARVEST

8 PER CENT. LOWER THAN LAST YEAR

DROUGHT AFTER A HARD WINTER

craft, told the scientists that what they found was so simple that no one would at first believe it.

dronounced curses on charged

Pilots suffered their beadaches,

COTTON TO

men, are secret enthusiasts

for Herr Hitler, Australian $1 TIFFINS

newspaper readers have been told. Their informant is Sydney de Vrics, celebrated Dutch

which, it was believed, caused the particles of ice, snow, rain and dust BIND CONCRETE singer, who passed through the

státie by striking the metallic sur- faces of planes in flight.

com-

IN

ROADS

It probably won't be very forting to the headache sufferers, but Cotton in concrete for roads is they at least now Can Jay blame the latest idea in Lancashire.

city several months ago.

In a letter in the Sunday Sun, Bydney, de Vries tells Australia that "Singapore is a hole with nothing to recommend it."

"The army, in all its glory, keeps

in the evenings Is melting in dress

Hitler."

porc.

where it belongs. The atmospheric The use of open-weave cotton very much to itself," he writes, "and static is caused by the discharge from fabric as a membrane for con-uniforms." the trulling edges of the wings and tall surfaces of the static already crete and asphalt was first tried "By the way," he adds, "the Alr Ir. seems likely that the grain har-gathered from certain cloud forma-out by highway engineers in Force there is a great admirer of

vest in Germany this year will be tlons.

South Carolina, U.S.A. in 1926. from 8 to 10 per cent. lower than Jasl.

De Vries sald he had been "crawl- By trailing a wire from the edges year and in the case of wheat and of United's flying laboratory, flucke The Arst serious experiments at

ing lelaurely round the world, picking rye about 15 per cent, below the nver-discovered that a material Improve-road building with cotton in Great impressions and doing quite a lot of singing." He certainly seemed to age. This is the forecast which I am ment was made in radio range recep-Britain were concluded recently, by pick up some impressions in Singa- able to arrive at after careful con-tion during heavy static conditions. Mr. J. L. Beckett, borough engineer sideration of the views of Germna The wire, termed a static-suppressed and surveyor at Burnley, Lanes.

trailing discharge wire, is and foreign experts (writes the Daily beginning. Hucke said, Telegraph Berlin correspondent). Meteorologists aboard the dying lab.proved quite satisfactory. I am now

average whent crop-taken Hucke said, are analysing studies over the five years 1831-35-is 170,- which now indicate that bothersome going to propose that great lengths become a succession of visits to tem-

of the roadway should be treated in ples. 000,000 bushels. For rye it is 284.- stot

static occurs

certain wea- only during

the same way." 000,000

conditions, and United Airlines ther the year Ogures were 162,000,000 and 273,000, forecasting major static areas on the is planning to develop a system of 000 bushels respectively,

airways und dispatch its planes

The

bushels. Last

only the

A general forecast is the more dim-around them. Other lines probably

will follow the same plan. cult to arrive at as the cumparative fallure of the crops in the great agri- "These research men have taken cultural districts of East Prussia, mystery out of the alteroft radio Pomerania, and Silesia is to a large static, and for the first time succeeded extent set-off by good crops in Cen-sald W. A. Patterson,

in clearly defining the problem,” President of tral and Southern Germany.

the Airlines. "We now expect the The bad harvest in North and eventual complete elimination of North-Eastern Germany was due in static trouble in operation before the

coming winter weather season."

NEW INSULATOR

The first instance to the severe winter, which led to about 10 per cent, of the winter whent and 6 per cent of the winter rye being ploughed under.

The group of engineers also deve loped a new lee-free transmitting antenna Insulator, which will result way volce communication.

"I have used cotton cloth to re- inforce small sections of roadway" he sald, "and the experiments have

"Tic main thing to do in Netherlands India is to hoodwink people into believing you are not

tourist," he wrote.

"If you fail to do that your days

And a little temples goes a

long way."

MOTORISTS COMPLAIN OF "BLACKMAIL "

(By W. A. McKenzie)

MOTORISTS are complaining to local authorities of a practice which, though legal, they regard as "mild blackmail." If consists of a demand for a small sum as a "mitigated penalty" for some offence against the licensing regulations.

The motorist is seen using his car with an out-of-date licence. The police report the matter and the authorities wait to see whether the offender was merely lax in renewing his licence or Scientists from Purdue University, committing a more serious offence. Reed College and Oregon Sinto College, engineers from Bell Tele-

In the last 10 days of May and the first week in June n complete drought a material improvement of two- completed the adverse conditions. East Prussia, Pomerania, and Slesin fall possess more or less light soils.

If, subsequently, the licence is renewed, covering the period

The effect of the drought is to pro-phone and Dendix Radio Laboratories since the expiry of the old one, the authorities assume that the duce a premature ripening of the crop and others participated in the un-offence was just one of carelessness. without a proper swelling of the ker-precedented series of fught experi-

inela.

ments.

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They then send the car owner a Thousands of motorists get letters This drought, then, has had the Miss Julla Sinead of the Society for note to the effect that he was guilty like that every quarter, and the vast effect of producing crops which are Research on Meteorites told the one of an offence and that they propose majority, of course, pay up.

Some to prosecute him.

local authorities make likely to prove very light In the hundred meeting of the scientists

practice of putting police on special threshing.

that a study hnd been made of the £20 PENALTY

watching duty the end of the 14- balance-mparison

between the

falls of

grace allowed for the Germany's agricultural

and the population per They point out that the maximum days, period

renewal of licences.

relative

sheet cannot, however, be made up as square mile of the target the great penalty is three times the amount of In whole for neother alx weeks. The chunks eventually hit, but reported the licence, or £20, whichever is the certain taxes, Parliament has pro-

At that "no rell potato crap may make or mar. It. the moment it looks as if it would been established, acts nor ratios have greater.

She said India, with 103 falls, has had the greatest number of falls in This year, by Government order, a the 831 she has recorded, and that the United States Is second with 77,

prove well above the average.

5 per cent. increase in the acreage Franco with 53. There seemed to be under potatoes has been effected,

Ino apparent reconciliation between

[In order to assist the collection of

vided that those who default shall Finally, they suggest that the be liable to a penalty, generally tre- offender might prefer to pay able the amount of the tax,

This mitigated penalty of 10s., in con-

I treated as a clutt penalty sideration for which they will debt and the authority responsible proceed no further with the pro- for the collection is given power to secution.

fettle the matter with the defaulter.]

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