1937-11-19 — Page 3

BLOCKADE OF

HONGKONG

MAY RESULT FROM

CHINA WAR.

Says London' "Times"

An article in the London Times on 'November 0 envisages a hiloelends of Hongkong as a possible outcome of the Sino-Japanese war,

The Times Correspondent in Tokyo stuter that many complaints are be- Ing received in Japan that munitions) and war material are reaching China through Hongkong, which at presenti

11a) Amini el Husseini, Mufti of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

NOVEMBER 19,

1937.

CLO

H.K. Scot Stow Away

To Australia

ALLEGED TO HAVE BOARDED

TYMERIC FROM WALLA-WALLA

Wellington, N.Z., Nov. 6. when the ship was lying in mid-

A Hongkong Scot named James stream in Hongkong harbour, believ Crawford appeared in the Polleeing that it was bound for Newcastle Court at New Plymouth to-day, in England. charged with having slowed away When the ship was two days t from Hongkong to New Zealand in sea he came out of his hiding place the s.s. Tymeric.

and gave himsel up. lle was Crawford is alleged to have board-| chagrined to discover ibut the ed the Tymeric from o walta-walln Tymeric was bound, not for New- castle. In England, but for Newcastle in New South Wales, via Navry and New Plymouth.

LOUDER

is exempt from the Japanese block-Jerusalem, who escaped from Jeru Z.B.W.

ade of the Chinese const.

The Times reports an authoritative) Tokyo source as stating that Japan | may overcome the difficulty experi- | enced in preventing munitions from reaching China through Hongkong) by declaring war on Cülma.

A forerunner of an official declara- tion of war would be the establish- ment of Japanese Imperial General Headquarters. Japan, states The Times' Correspondent, may take this step if the various European powers sympathetle to China continue support that nation.

salem to Syria, disgülsed as a pen- sant.

Australian Violinist To Play Here

POSSIBLE

Under Latest B.B.C. Scheme

new

Under Britain's

plan for broadcasting news in foreign langu ages, it is possible that the power of ZBW. Honghong, may be greatly in-

After fortnat evidence to this effect was given in the Police Court of New Plymouth, Crawford was reminded of the request of the prosecution.

It was stated court that the mill- tary authorities in Hongkong were seeking a deserter whose description tallied with Crawford. A

remand was

asked pentting inquiries in Hongkong. Crawford emphatically denied that he was a military deser- ter, but admitted that he had smug- uled away from Hongkong in the be- He that the Tymeric was en route to Newcastle in England.

Daisy Kennedy, the Australian to violinist and widow of dolin Drink- water, the port and playwright, will The Times points out that a Japa-goon cominence a world tour 113 nese declaration of war on China leader and conductress of a male would bring Hongkong within the string quartet. The quartet will municated with Colonies throughout during the tour. the Empire, advising them of the

ereased in the near future. MERCY

It is understood that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has cem-

scope of the Japanese blockade of visit Hongkong drawn from stx new policy adopted for British broad-

the Chinese coast,

The party English, Irish and Australian players, casting. "If Japan declares war en China and will play light music in a new the situation with regard to Hong-way.

A powerful broadcasting station Is

KILLING BY

70 YEAR-OLD

itong will be consideralny changed chewing jazz and musical to be erected at Laraven, in Cyprus, OTHER

says the Thues.

"Considerable inconvenience and loss to British shipping trading to and from Hongkong would atmest certainly to be one of the results,"

Mediterranean and the near East.

comedy, The impresario, Harold for kroatcasting in Arabic to the Holt, is supporting the venture.

Miss Kennedy has recovered fully froin a revent street neeldent in London,

which necessitated • 55 stitches in her face,

HEIRESS TO MILLIONS TO

Plans for

VISIT HONGKONG

Far Eastern cruise;

having been abandoned owing to the Sino-Japanese dispute, Mr. and Mrs. James R.

Instead travelling to Hongkung by Pan- American Airways.

Croniwell re Marcus Show

Mrs. Cromwell is the famous Doris Duke, heiress to the Camel elgurette millions. She is the richest girl in the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell spent the major part of their honeymoon lant year

at Repulse Bay. During the honeymoon trip. Mr. Cromwell would not allow his wife to spend a penny of her personal fortune.

Returning To Colony

The couple will leave San Fran- is clsco by Pan-American Clipper on

Arrives In March

Another transmitter will be erected at Malta, for broadcasting in Italin and Spanish.

Existing transmittera #1 India, Singapore und Hongkong may have their power greatly increased for broadensting in Indian and Chinese A short

wave station at Bermuda Will broadcast in Spanish to the South American republies.

OR twenty years Mrs. Ger- trude Allee Hogg, aged forty-one, was an invalid. Her seventy-year-old mother, Mrs, Ada Walsh, devoted her life to nursing her,

Harold George Hags. the daugh ter's husband, went abroad, she did her parents' home not know where, and she moved to nt Gloucester

The decision to enter the field of news and propaganda broadcasting in Road, Kingston, Surrey. foreign languages is the result of

Since. Chiristinas she had been in

long consideration by a committee,bed, too ill. to be moved. Strain of including representalives of the Foreign Ofice, Colonial Office and and she too had to

untiring nursing told on the mother, be constantly other Government Departments, in addition the B.B.C.

under the care of doctor,

Mrs. Walsh realised that she was no longer able to give her daughter the attention she needed. She could

not bear to see her suffer-and she would not trust any one else to nurse

her.

The proposed services will play a great part in countering foreign pro- paganda which at times is strongly anti-British. Italian propaganda from Bar has been particularly per- nicious of late, and a constant stream

When the old woman's husband, of propaganda is being directed to

George Henry Walsh, retired postal Palestine and India. Japan, too, has

superintendent, returned home one entered the field of propaganda in

night he found a note from bis the Far East, and Germany constant- The famous Marcus Show, which broadcasts rational propaganda toj

wife saying that in view of the now playing in Australia, is to South America and other parts of the

daughter's ill-health and her own December 15, arriving in Hongkong visit Hongkong next March. The

uge she had decided to end mat- world.

ters. The foreign languages policy will five days later. They will probably cast wilt comprise 100 players, the *

naf affect remain in this Colony for a short targest troupe to visit the Far East. from Daventry. There the

the Empire brondcosts She said: "

cannot B.B.C. thought of leaving her." before proceeding оп

Mr. Marcus stated in Melbourne

only propose continue but Mr. Walsh told the coroner at the last week that arrangements had extent

to enlarge and increase to such an inquest that he rushed upstairs,

that they will provide the burst open the bedroom door. atrendy been completed for the Far Empire with a continuous 24-hour His daughter was in bed, dead. Eastern tour, and does not anticipate, of the service, receivable at maximum | His wife was the floor, dend. Be- that the Sino-Japanese hostilitical strength anywhere in the world. It aide her was a razor,

is proposed to erect new short Though the jury wanted to keep Salt Lake City.

cause any postponement. He wave transmitter which will be the the word "murder" out, the verdict This city may add a conscience Shanghai and Japan before return-

in Manila, Hongkong most powerful in the world. play

was! "Murder in the ease of Mrs. fund to its accounts, Commissionering to the United States. P. I Goggin sald after An Ohio

while Europe.

Conscience Gift on

Ledger

tu

will

will

not

bear

100

A B.B.C. engineer who was en Hogg: suicide while balance of mind route to Hongkong on a tour of Em- | was disturbed in the case of Mrs. woman malted 25 cents in postage The Marcus Show Tagt played in pire outposts was suddenly recalled | Walsh.” stamps to pay for flowers she re-Hongkong at the Queen's Theatre in from India to assist in developing the Coroner and jury expressed sym- inoved from neity garden.

pathy with Mr. Walsh,

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