1937-08-12 — Page 3

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 Staff Correspondent

San Francisco. past two years to Increased exports,

there of wool and cotton.

The starting Increase of Japanese

Amerien imports from South

has been one of the most outstanding and overlooked developments in foreign trode, according to a recent survey of the Institute of Pacific Relations.

Whereas only a short time ago fears were entertained that Central

DEVELOPING OWN INDUSTRIES

As regards Colombia, Ecundor and Peru, which abrogated their treaties with Jupon when the latter began. to inundate them with cotton and other goods, the Institute is inform- !, the Japanese government is seeking to negotiate вен trenties

and South America would be swamp-with them, which will enable Japani ed with cheap Japanese goods, it to reempture these markets. now develops, the Institute finds, that while in the past two years Japanese exports to Latin America have increased only 5 per cent, Latin American exports to Japan have in- creosed 140 per cent,

The balance of trade with Japan Is now favourable in every respect to Latin America as # whole. Latin American exports to Japan for 1938 alone ure placed by the Institute at Yen 133,081,000,

Japanese Imports 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 OR,000,000, 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 America, showed a favourable trade] balance with Japan in 1936 as did Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil. Part of the reason for this lies in the Increased exports from South America to Japan of cotton.

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-

Still one other thing which hos operated in South Americn, the Institute finds, to decrease the Bow there of Japanese-made goods, is the continuous development within the larger Latin American countries themselves of domestic industries; and the increased competition of the and other European countries, all of United States, England, Germany

which the Institute finds, are Indica- tions of new period of activity and prosperity in Latin America.

The only portion of the latter where Japan has succeeded in main- taining something of her former hold

the markets is Central America. This, the Institute reports, is due to the fact that the Central American countries are handicapped by the offer fact bley have so little to Japan in return for the large volume of cotton and rayon textiles that Japanese have been able

place on their markets.

To maintain their balance of trade,

George Brent will have to be very much of a diplomat to selle affairs amicably in the above situation, It seems as though the beautiful Jean Arthur resents very much the presence of the Dorothea Kent. The above is one of the romantic intics the stars,' Jean Arthur and George Brent, become involved in "More Than A Secretary," Columbia comedy showing on Friday at the King's Theatre,

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER WHY AVIATORS SUFFER FROM HEADACHES

By CHARLES WRIGHT

United Press Staff Correspondent

Denver.

years of falls und localities, she said, Scientists confess that all along although in Europe there was a slight tendency for falls to occur in groups

the Institute reports that virtually they have blamed the wrong of five-year periods. The year 1868 all the Central American countries things for causing a constant had most recorded falls.

rent

a

Recent

STRAPPED TO

CAMEL

Old Malay's Six Days' Ride With Broken Leg

KICKED BY WILD HORSE

Perth.

WITH a doubly-fractured and mutilated leg a 90-year-old Malay, Joby, rode for six days, strapped to a camel. Then he made 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 was attempting to drive it ahead of him to Wild Dog Creek.

One of the flying hooves caught the Malay on one leg, breaking both banes and throwing him to the Ground.

fle was more than 40 miles from the, nearest habitation Argyle cattle station, and 150 miles from any medical assistance. He had no al- ternative other than to call one of his can

camels, which came and knelt beside hlm.

Then slowly and painfully the mjured man

I man clambered on to its back and strapped himself securely on.

Although at times his agony must have been almost unbearable 110 forced thic camel towards Argyle, which he reached after six days of lumbering, heart-breaking travel,

Ie was more dead than alive when he reached the cattle station. Con Ahearn, a Wyndham truck driver, was at Argyle finishing the unloading of stores.

are enacting various restrictions such buzzing in the carphones of air- Prof. H. . Nininger Secretary of as tariffs, exchange control, re-plane pilots and the ground the Society for Research on nunciation of treaties and demands crews. for barter trade agreements de goods the biggest headaches, are most in 1918 near Norfolk, Ark., was not when his camel reeled in to Argyle,

But the pilots, who have Meteorites, told of the elusiveness of the celestial metal. A fall recorded

"The Malay was in a bad way the popularity which Japanese huti found on their markets.

interested in a "cure."

revealed until May. 1935, he reported, Ahearn said. "The bottom half of Although this has resulted in

of Japanese imports, A group of engineers, scientists and and complete record was not pre-his leg was just swaying with every lacking

sented to the scientists until the eur-step the animal took. balance of trade still remains favour-meteorologists cruised the airlanes able to Japon. The latter is now for three months searching for air-

meeting.

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

advances in hydrologic travelled all night to get him to hos- Cuba and El Salvador.

they weren't looking in the right sulting Hydraulic Engineer of In spite of his ordeal the Malay's Mexico, the Institute Onds. is the Unues in spite of the fact that Argen- only country between the Rio Grandeplace for the source of the impair-! Voorheesville, N.Y., reported, reveal candition is reported to be satisfac-

communication between that broad general conclusions at 10tory. tina itself is enacting more and more and the Amazon which for the past ground crews and plane forces. the beneficial effects of forests or stringent tariffs against Japanese two years has been able to maintain

favourable trade balance

with goods and is openly favouring gools;

Finally, they learned where to look, otherwise in curbing floods are nei- the Japonese it WIS of British manufacture.

Jnpandue largely

reported to the American ther Justined

scientifle data. Importation from Mexico of raw Association for the Advancement of Chile, the Institute, notes, is still cotten and zinc. However, this year Science at the 100th meeting here. surface runoff and its regulator, in- After a lengthy consideration on maintaining the position she has kept Mexico took additional steps to and reversed all the former theories. |

of maintain up over a long period of years

infiltration of rafall. Horton ended her

tradu favourable

They even are approaching a solu- selling more goods to Japan than she balance by putting an import tariff:

tion. Imports. Chilean nitrates continue on some 700 different articies. This, to be the principal export to Japan it is believed, will practically shut although the Japanese demand for out several of Japan's leading exports copper has recently shown a marked such as electric bulbs, and other Increase.

electrical appliances.

In return, Chile has been second only to Argentina in South America as a buyer of Japanese collon goods,

although here also, like Argentina

Chile is enacting restrictions,

Both Peru and Uruguay, the Insti-

tute, Ands, owe their favourable position in Japanese trade during the

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DROUGHT AFTER A

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H. H. Hucke, engineer in charge of tlon are strip cropping, flat terracing

IS TOLD OF SINGAPORE

United Air Lines flying laboratory and the growing of grass or close-SINGAPORE Royal Air Force

a seven-ton, scientifically-equipped growing grains. craft, told the scientists that what they found was so simple that no one would nt first believe it.

headaches, Pilots suffered their and pronounced curses on charged

COTTON

for

TO

particles of ice, snow, rain and dust BIND CONCRÈTE which, it was believed, caused the

static by striking the metallic sur-

faces of planes in fight.

It probably won't be very com- forting to the headache sufferers, but

IN ROADS

Cotton in concrete for roads is

they at least now can lay blame the latest idea in Lancashire. where it belongs. The atmospheric The use of open-weave cotton statie is caused by the discharge from

men are secret enthusiasts

SHIRT

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ALL TO GO AT $1.50

$ 50 cách $1

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ALL TO GO AT $1.50 each

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newspaper renders have been told. Their informant is Sydney de Vries, celebrated Dutch

singer, who passed through the city several months ago.

In a letter in the Sunday Sung Sydney, de Vries tells Australia that "Singapore, is a hole with nothing to recommend It."

"The army, in all its glory, keeps very much to itself," he writes, "and

in the evenings is melting in dress

the tralling edges of the wings and fabric as a membrane for con-uniforms.

Great

De Vries said he had been "crawl- ing leisurely round the world, pleking up impressions and doing quite a lot of singing." He certainly seemed to pick up some Impressions in Singa-

pore.

"The main thing to do In Netherlands India is to hoodwink people into believing you are not a tourist," he wrote. "If you fall to do that your days become a succession of visits to tem- And a little temples goes a ples. long way."

tall surfaces of the static already crete and asphalt was first tried "By the way," he adds, "the Air seems ilkely that the grain har-gathered from certain cloud form out by highway engineers in Force there is a great admirer of

Hitler." vest in Germany this year will be tions.

South Carolina, U.S.A. in 1926. from 8 to 10 per cent, lower than last By trailing a wire from the edges) year and in the case of wheat and of United's tying laboratory, Hucke The first serious experiments at rye about 15 per cent, below the aver-discovered that a material improve-road building with cotton age. This is the forecast which I am ment was made in radio range recep- Britain were concluded recently by able to arrive at after careful con-ion during heavy static conditions. Mr. J. L. Beckett, borough engineer sideration of the views of German The wire, termed a static-suppressed and surveyor at Burnley, Lanes.

trailing discharge wire, is only the "I have used cotton cloth to res and foreign experts (writes the Dally beginning. lucke said.

inforce small sections of roadway” he| Telegraph Berlin correspondent).

the experiments have Meteorologists aboard the flying lab, said, "and

I am now The average wheat croplaken Hucke said, are analysing studies proved quite satisfactory. over the five years 1931-35-is 176,-which now indicate that bothersome ping to propose that great lengths 000.000 bushels. For rye it is 284,-static occurs only during certain wea-of the roadway should be treated in 000,000 bushels. Last

ther conditions, and United Airlines the same way."

Hystern of is planning to develop figures were 162,000,000 and 273,000,- forecasting major static areas on the 000 bushels respectively.

airways and dispatch its planes A general forecast is the more dim-around them. Other lines probably

will follow the same plan.. cult to arrive at as the comparative; fallure of the crops in the great agri-i "These research men have taken cultural districts of East Prussia,jmystery out of the aircraft radio Pomerania, and Silesia is to a large static, and for the first time succeeded problem," extent set-off by good crops in Cen-in clearly defining the

President of sald W. A. Patterson. 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 the Arst instance to the severe winter, coming winter weather season."

NEW INSULATOR

year the

which led to about 10 per cent, of the winter wheat and 6 per cent. of the winter rye being ploughed under.

The group of engineers also deve- lee-free transmitting loped a new

In the last 10 days of May and the loptenna insulator, which will result

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.

rst week in June a complete drought in a material Improvement of two-The police report the matter and the authorities wait to see completed the adverse conditions. way volce communication,

East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia

all possess more or less light solls.

whether the offender was merely lax in renewing his licence or Scientists from Purdue University, committing a more serious offence.

and Reed College

Oregon State

If, subsequently, the licence is renewed, covering the period College, engineers from Bell Tele- The effect of the drought is to, pro- phone and Dendix Radlo 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.

They then send the car owner a Thousands of motorists get letters without a proper swelling of the ker-precedented series of flight experi- nels. This drought, then, has had the ments.

Miss Julia Smead of the Society for note to the effect that he was guilty like that every quarter, and the vast Jeffect of producing crops which are Research on Meteorites told the one of an offence and that they propose majority, of course, pay up.

to prosecute him.

Some local authorities make likely to prove very light in the hundred meeting of the selentists

practice of putting police on special n study had been made of the £20 PENALTY that n threshing.

comparison between the falls of

period of grace allowed for the agricultural balance meteorlles and the population

per

They point out that the maximum renewal of licences. sheet cannot, however, be made up as square mile of the target the great penalty is three times the amount of In order to assist the collection of in whole for another six weeks. The chunks eventually hit, but reported the licence, or £20, whichever is the certain taxes, Parliament has pro- potato crop may make or mar It. At that "no relative facts nor ratios have the moment it looks us if it would been established."

Gerrauny's

prove well above the average.

This year, by Government order, a 5 per cent. Increase in the acreage under potatoes has been effected.

She said India, with 102 falls, has had the greatest number of fails in the 831 she has recorded, and that the United States is second with 77, France with 53, There seemed to be Ino apparent reconciliation between )

greater.

day duty of the end of the 14-

vided that those who default shall Finally, they suggest thist the be able to a penalty, generally tre- offender micht prefer to pay "able the amount of the tax. mitigated penalty of 10s., In con This penalty is treated as a civil sideration for which they will debt and the authority responsible proceed no further with the pro- for the collection is given power to Recution.

settle the matter with the defaulter.]

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