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TELEGRAPH.
THE WEATHER
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 7,
1938.
Wary Eye On HUMIDITY
Nazi Policy
Fears Changos With Von Blomberg's Retirement
Hankow, Feb. 6. Chinese officials and newspaper are reserved in their tomment on the *shake-up" in tlac Reich, engineered by Herr Adolf Hitler, the majority feeling It is too curly foresee whether the re-shumle of officials presages « change in the German policy towards China.
HIGHEST FOR YEAR
IMPROVEMENT SOON
During the 24 hours ending 10 a. m. to-day humidity reach- ed 95 per cent., the highest re- corded in the Colony since last summer, and only five per cent. below absolute saturation.
Variation between minimum nud
maximum temperature during the 24 hours was only two degrees-from 50 to 50 degrees.
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Fears Felt For American Missionaries
Hankow Not Informed Of Report Of Woman's Kidnapping
Hankow, Feb. 7.-
missionaries here have not heard The American Embassy and
anything of the report of the kidnapping of Miss Helen Boughton, of the Northern Presbyterian Mission between Chinese and Japanese troops at Huinyuna, close to which fighting
Is raging at present
This mission included six women. and one man, Miss Boughton, of Trenton, NJ,
one of them. The
The Takuna Pao, one of the most
A depression is situated to the fast Influential of Chinese newspapers, of Hokkaido, and ал anti-cyclone avers the German foreign policy henceforth will be the Nazi Party's covers China and the neighbouring others at the mission are believed to
scas. policy.
to extending eastward thebe Miss Mabel Hall, New York, Miss "We enunot any the Gerinun actionWeather, conditions in Hongkong West Virginia, Miss Harriet Stroh, of Elisabeth Turner, of St. Alban's, will go_to_extremes or even cause*** war... But we can definitely say that may improve shortly, although fur-Wheaton, Illinois, Miss Hattie Mac- German intervention in Spain will be thor cloudy conditions with rain areCurdy, of Madison, NJ, who has more active, and Germany and Italy forecast. will draw closer together.
"General von Blomberg wi for many years sympathelle to China, We regret his removal. China walls and hopes that Germany's policy won't turn out to be favourable to Japan."
praatses
The local army organ Herr Hler's swiftness in reorganis-
The official forecast, issued at 10 a... is: "Fresh north-easterly wind; cloudy with occasional rain, probably improving."
ntion and suggests the Chinese ought STOP PRESS
to imitate such swift determination. It draws attention. the replacing of officials of averyge oge of seven years, younger than those retired. thereby hinting at the capabilities of
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Most feel Herr Hitler's action to he the outcome of the European situation, and that it is only Indirect- ly connected with the Far East at present.
The
only known factors are that General von Blomberg wend friendly to China, while Herr von Ribbentrop, the new Furcigo Minister, was the author of the anti- Communist Pact.-United Press.
AMERICA WILLING TO DISARM
Cordell Hull Appeals To "Hermit" Nations
Washington, Feb. G.
The willingness of the United States Government to limit or reduce armaments
was ex-
pressed by Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, in a broati- cast over a nation-wide network to-day.
"While, in a world In which in- creased construction of armaments is a regreltable fact, we are compelled to render adequate our military and naval establishments, we are ready at any time to join other nations in common effort to bring about n general mitallon or reduction of 'armaments,”- Mr. Hull-declared:
State attacked of The Secretary what he termed "hermit nations. meaning nations which were seeking economic self-sufliciency.
He declared that economic warfare was largely responsible for the re- cent alarming disintegration of inter- national relationships, and war, and the fear of war, were gripping the minds and stultifying the spirit of mankind.
Feverish preparations for potential armed conflicts were supping the already badly Impaired economic health of many nations.
"The world desperately needs in- ternational order based on the re- vitalisation of international law," Mr. Hull declared.
He concluded his broadcast by offering as one incans of peace his programme of trade agreèmenila.—— Reuter.
BOATMAN CAUGHT WITH
DYNAMITE ABOARD
one stick
of
For possession of dynamite, boatman named Cheung Mok, 45, was fined $20 by Mr. K.M.A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy
this morning.
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Commencing from TO-DAY and the
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"G WELL TRAINED ELEPHANTS"
Novelty! The Oriental. Novelty
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The Programme consist of 18 acts introduced by first class European Artists.“
Canadian relatives, and Miss Miriam Petchner, whose home address is not known. Dr. R. J. MacCandliss, China-born mission doctor, 13 the only man at the mission.
Mr. David D. van Dyke and his wife are at present believed
しゃ
be
attempting to reach the station n't | Hualyuan.
A letter dated January 31, from Huniyuan, stated that the place was quiet, with few Chinese soldiers about. There had been many visits from aircraft but no bombings.— United Press.
ECONOMIST, GENERAL
TO CONFER
Men May Seek To Guide N. China
Tokyo, Feb. 6. Arrangements have been made for conversations between Mr. Hatsusaburo Hirao, President of the semi-official Japan Iron Manufactur- ing Company, and General Hisatchi Terauchi, Commander-in-Chiet of the Expeditionary Force in 1hc Peiping area, on the economic development of
of North China, accord-. ing
to Japanese reports received here from Peiping.
Mr. Hirao, who is slated to become supreme economic adviser to the new "Provisional. Government," arrived
at Peiping. from Japan on February 5.--Reuter.
Saleswoman With £10,000 Expenses Is Coming to H.K.
London, Jan. 30.
In
A saleswoman with £10,000 for
will expenses
shortly arrive Hongkong.
She is Mrs. Eugenie Daubeny, who jeaves England next week to act; in her own words, as "contact woman between British manufacturers and buyers in the Colonies and Doml flons."
She is going to "link up with the people on the other side, discover their needs, and then tell them all about British firms which can supply them."
"My ambition," Mrs. Daubeny adds, "is to open up channels for millions of pounds' worth of trade in goods of every conceivable des- cription... I am not taking any samg ples, because I am not a salesman In that sense, but I have six trunks full of catalogues,"
Mrs. Daubeny claims that her lost tour yielded more than £250,000 of business and declares that she will not be satisfled with less than several million pounds worth this time.
Clouston. Out
For Another Air Record
Flying
London, Feb. 6. Meer Clouston, who took off from Gravesend Airport at 4 a.m. with Mr. Victor Rickefis, Daily Ez-
fr press reporter, in an attempt to
to New Zealand and back in 12 days, has arrived 0 Adana Airport | Turkey, according to news received In
London this evening,
The airmen are resuming their Night early to-morrow morning.
Clouston is flying the famous de Havilland Comet Ini which he and Mer, Green recently broke lhe record from London to the Cape and back. The machine has been christened "Australian Anniversary."--fleuter,
COOLIES HELD FOR - MENACING AGENT
Three coolies were charged before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy to day with having · des manded money with monaces_from'a Chinese travel agent. They pleaded not guilty and were formally re- manded for eight days. . Pending the hearing of the caso at noon on February 10, bail was fixed at $100 each.
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LAUREL HARD FOUR MONTHS FOR RESISTING ARREST
LACKED FINESSE AS ROGUES
Stoled to have stolen a large chop-
On charges of attempted larceny and resisting arrest, a elog-maker ping block worth $18 from No. 256 named Clicung Fuk, 25, was sent to gnol for four months with hard in bour by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day.
Des Voeux Road West, Kan Tong, 55, steel coolle, and Cheung Kin-hing. 44, street coolie, were each sentenced to a week's hard labour by Mr. Forrest at the Central Magistracy this morning, when they werd On February 4, a district watch charged with the offence. Inspector man who was on duty in Shanghai W. Mair said the block, was about Street saw the defendant inserting four feet in diameter, and defendants his hand into the pockets of a mon who was standing with a crowd of Were seen rolling it down the road at
the time of their arrest. people near lanko's circus. When accosted by the watchman defendant vened and defendant was arrested. Sub-Inspecter H. E. Rogers pro ran away and on being chased-ho picked up a stone from the roadway secuted. Defendant had a previous and attempted twice to hurl it at his conviction lost year for the Eme persuer
Another watchman inter- 'offence.
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