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THE

THURSDAY HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

JUNE 16, 1938.

PACIFIST SPEECH HECKLED

Bishop Discourages Use Of Force To Stop. Bombings

London, June 15. During a meeting of the China Campaign Committee in Queen's Hall to-night, tho

of Bishop Chelmsford was subjected to pro- Jonged Jeering and heckling when he urged that force should not be applied to induce Japan to abandon her bombings of Canton,

The Bishop urged that an attempt should be made to convince Japan that she was losing face throughout the world by the callousness of her actions,

his

10 the

DIPLOMATS LETTERS TO THE

DRIVEN OUT OF JAPAN

Ex-Charge D'Affaires Says Secretary Serves Peiping

EDITOR

WANTS TO ENROLL

To The Editor,

Hongkong Telcyroph.

(The following is a free transla- tion of a letter written to the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph yester- day).

Sir, Having Uved in Shanghai for three years, and having dwelt in Singapore another two, I have had the advantage of making the no- quaintance and contacting many

Shanghai, June 10. "The Japanese Foreign Office re- quired a sum of Yen 300, from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo as an ad- Iministration fund for giving profee tion to Chinese lives and property in Japan on the eve of my withdringen frem Tokyo," said Mr. Yang Yan- chu, the Chinese Charge d'Affatros, in an interview with a number of before his de- Chinese pressmen parture from Shanghai for Hongkong yesterday.

mails

the

At Singapore, Chinese patriots are to aid "la mero all very anxious patrie". They have given proof of this by their gifts of money, and material to the nation.

In these different circumstances they have come to ally themselves in the

the

campaign in which Chinese newspapers are drying for

I have requested permission to enroll in the Sanitary Service of the Army or else with the Chinoco Red Cross. My certificates and my re- cord of service allowed me to be sure that my services would be ac- cepted.

Beginning last month the Japanese authorities redoubled their efforts to force the withdrawal of Chineso Mr. Victor Gollancz, the well- 'known publisher, referred during diplomatie representatives remaining

Incidents against the Chi-help. specch

Japanese In Tokyo. Ambassador's answer to the China nese Embassy were repeatedly in-

and deputation spired organised by the Japanese Compaign Committee's

while ma to authorities, were last week that the bombinga

with the objec! undertaken

of Embassy were frequently withheld,

Yang demoralising the Chinese people.

according to Mr. "This is one of the mon terrible

The Charge d'Agatres sorrowfully made statements

by an ever

confirmed the Japanese report that civilled country."

During two months' of travel be- Mr. Sun Te, secretary of the Chinese

Hankow, I re- Ambassador of a

tween Canton and Mr. Gollancz declared.

Embassy for ten years, did accept a After the meeting a number of post with the puppet Pelping and peatedly sought the proper authorl

enroll me without people marched to the Japanese Nanking governments as director of lies who would

being involved. I any gratuities with Embassy. carrying placards

their offices. "Stop These Bombings." "Boycott

Commenting on the recent appoint-asit you, Mr. Editor, where is the Goods" and similar

of General Japanese

Itagaki as the proper approach for those who wish slogans. Reuter.

Foreign Minister the Japanese to volunteer in the Sanitary Servico Government, Mr. Yang said that the of the Chinese Army or with the for move was not for strengthching Chinese Red Cross?

0s most I am willing to work free Japan'a diplomatic power observers thought, but rather for wounded Chinese soldiers, even

My regaining her equilibrium in dipin- the trenches at my own risk. applications thus far she has completely mucy, which ignored since the outbreaks of the been fruitless.

is generally current hostilities. It considered that General Itagaki is the only Japanese general now who belleves Ja maintaining friendly relations with Great Britain and the United States, and in compromising Mr. U.S.S.R, according to

PAVING ROAD TO WAR

Washington, June 15. Mr. Hamilton Fish, the bitter Re- of President publican

opponent Roosevelt and the New Deal, in a Flag Day address to-day, said that if Congress was not so overwhelmingly Democratie it would seek the

Roosevelt peachment of President for his faflure to invoke the Neutrallly Act in the Sino-Japanese conflict.

im-

Mr. Fish charged President Roose- vell, Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr. Nor- man Davis with "preparing the road to war with their persistent demands that the aggressor in the Sino-

ment

with

of

Yang.

At present there are about 10,000 Chinese merchants and workers re- Japanese confilet should be punish-nnining In Japan, Mr. Yang sald,

cd.'

He expressed the

fear that the

United States would be involved in

a plan to quarantine and palice Asla

before 1940-United Press.

U.S. COPPER FÖR JAPAN

Washington, June 15. Resentment of peace organisations which recently made representations to the Department of State against American bid for the Japanese war machine, mounted new to-day in the light of the latest figures showing the United States' exports of copper for April.

Copper exports during the month totalled 78,000,000 lb., of which ap- proximately 32.0000,000 lb. were sent to Japan, 14,000,000 lb. to Great Bri- tain and 5,000,000 lb. to Germany,

The 32,000,000 lb, sent to Japan re- presents the highest figure yet of this essential war material-Reuter.

Japanese Ship Claims Pacific. Blue Riband

Tokyo, June 10. The 9,302-ton freighter, Kinks Maru, claims a blue riband for her record maiden voyage crossing the Pacific Ocean in 10 days 12 hours 20

Yokohama minutes from

to San Francisco and travelling between New York and Yokuliuma in 22 days 23 hours.

The Kinka Maru returned to Yokohama on Tuesday from Los hourly overage Angeles, with an -speed of 18.2 knots for the total distance from New York to Yoko- homa.

The 0.300-ton Kinryu Moru, sister ship of the Kinka Maru, built at the Kawasaki Dockyard in Kobe, in be- ing launched on Thursday. The specifications of the ship are: Dis- placement, 9,300 tons; length, 155 metres; beum, 19 metres: borsepower, 0,200; highest trial speed, 21 knols.-- Domet.

HEARTBURN

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Sufferers from heartburn, and Indood any form of indigestion, can save them- selves discomfort and pain by the simple process of taking a spoonful of Maclean Brand Stomach Powder in water after meals of whomever they feel discomfort. This effect is always beneficial and the rollet instantaneous. The reason for this is that Maclean Brand Stomach Powder la unique in corábining, in perfectly balanced

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BRITISH

EXPORTS INCREASE

But Imports Keep

Pace Too Easily

Exports of United Kingdom goods in May were valued at £38,164,810 compared with £37,260,307 in April and £42,732,041 in May, 1937.

The value of imports for those

in

have

K.

WEALTHY MAN LED JAMAICA STRIKERS

Crown Drops Charge

Of Sedition

Kingston, Jamalen, June 15. The Crown case against Alexander Bustamente, the wealthy money lender who has a fortune large enough to live a life of luxury, but has be- come the head of the workers in the labour unrest in Jamaica, was with- drawn to-day.

Bustamente, who is leader of the negro workers of Jamaica, was ar- rested with a man named Grant after the outbreak of the recent riots, and was charged with sedition.

The charges

against both were withdrawn to-day on condition that, they undertook not to disturb the pence. Both men have been re- leased.

men

Bustamente's counsel said that the wealthy labour leader had not been guilty of acdition. He had worked constitutionally throughuot the tur-

for the betterment of labour, and would continue to do so.

Bustamente has introduced many American labour devices for harassing employers of Jamaien's sugar planta. tions and wharves. This "John L. Lewis of Jamaica," copying the leader of the American labour organisations, sit-down strikes, hunger brought marches, etc. to the West Indies. Reuter.

Hit-Run Motorist In Court

was

SUMMONS

FRENCH

TROOPS

Tientsin Consul Defies Japanese

Tientsin, Juno 16. When Japanese-controlled Chinese polles, entered the premises of the French Jesuit College to-day for activities search and enquiry into within its walls, the French Consul, M. Lepiasier, summoned a company of French troops.

The French coldlers marched up to the college under the personal com- mand of Colonel Jacomy, Comman- dant of the French Forces in North China. Before

arrived the Chinese police withdrew..

Subsequently, M. Lepissier declared that any further attempt to prejudice French prestige or interests would

resisted.Reuter. be similarly

Police Watch For Street Offenders

The daily arrivals in the Colony of hundreds of refugees, many of whom are well-to-do people, are affording plenty of opportunities for local bad snatchers have been very active on characters, and earring and bag- both sides of the harbour lately.

But if the thieves are on the prowl, so are the police. As a result

increased

diligence in the police pont weeks many offenders have been brought into local Courts.

of

Yesterday, policemen of Wanchal district arrested two

men; one, Li Kuen, 22, a bng snatcher, and the other, Cheung Tsat, 18, an curring natcher. Both men appeared before

Mr. H. R. Butters at the Central Magistracy this morning,

Li followed a woman in Tin Lok Lane and suddenly snatched her

Ansuccessfully to run

The handbag from behind and attempted

away. purse

that he had stolen contained money a gold bangle worth $55. It was recovered and he was sent to gnol for six

for six months.

HISTORY OF TEA Sir,-I read with much interest Mr. T. Paul Gregory's excellent ar- ticle on the "Romance of China Ten"

A "hit-run" motorist who In Saturday's issue of your paper.

There are, however, one or two knocked down a seven-year-old Lane

not points on which Mr. Gregory is

the dis girl in Hennessy Road yesterday ters morning, and then accelerated honest practices of Chinese exporters quite accurate. Although

me and disappeared, received sum- might have been responsible to

of the

the mary justice when he extent, the great decline

the was primarily brought before

Central China tea industry due to the expansion of the

planta- tion industry in India and Colyon. Magistracy this morning.

As Mr. Gregory no doubt aware, tea is not indigenous to China. The home of tea is Assum, India, This Is how it was taken to China: In the sway in days when Buddhism held India, missionaries used to travel across the Himalayas into Tibet and the Western and South-Westem pro vinces of China. These long, weary Journeys were done mostly on foot. An asretic monk named Botchihar ma, making the journey from Cen- trai India, found himself very thirs ty and tired in the plains of Assam. So, quite by accident, ho picked some leaves from a nearby bush and them. Quickly he

same periods was £75,303,773, £73,- chewing

679,570 and £83,173,412.

Re-exports amounted to £7,177,- month

much revived. "Ah! This is on excellent plant," thought Botchi- haema, "I must take some of these seeds to China,"

pleased who

very "A

man

The Chinese were with Botchiharma. of could give us such a gift must in- deed be preaching an excellent re- Ilgion." they agreed. And so Bot- flourished- chiharma's preaching

tea plant in quile as well as the 2 China.

179, against £5,010,521 before, and £7,392,894 a year ago.

For the first five months of the

decrease year exports show a £10,501,450 over the corresponding period of last year and amounted to £100,300,203. Imports are £1,817,- 378 less than a year ago at £303,- 427,311 and Re-exports, at £27,932,- 617, show a fall of £5,470,342.

It was China, however, which gave Of the decrease of nearly £8,000,- tea to the world. Whether Botchi- 000 in the value of imports in May, harma ever got back to India and compared with May. 1837, over £5,- extolled the virtues of the tea plant 000,000

in respect of raw materials, history does not tell us, but we know is in and notably

settlers in India 015- of raw cotton and wool that Chinn made the best use of it. India dis- Later British Cotton and woollen manufactures were

the principal exports covered the plant in Assam and be- also showing decline in value, against gan cultivating it. As the industry which there was a considerable in- developed in Indin so did the imports

England tea in

decline. crease in the value of machinery of China tea

though, oven to-day, certain brands exported-British Wireless,

of Chinese tea are unrivalled, and cannot be bought at any price, most of the world's

teas are manu- quality Ceylon where the indus- factured in try was developed in the latter part of the last century following a great pest which wiped out coffee indus try with the loss of millions of pounds sterling to British invectors

open to correction, but

is right don't think Mr. Gregory when he speaks of Japan as a great exporter of tea. He probably means Java. Japan does not produce very much more than her own domestic von requirements, but vast quantities are Com-rown and manufactured in Java and other parts of the Netherlands Indies, mostly for export.

Von Fritsch Honoured

Rumour Of Discord Disproved

חזו

Berlin, June 15. Monocled, bachelor General Fritsch, who was appolated mander-in-Chief of the German Army in 1834 and retired under somewhat

The Chinese green teas were never and the sensational circumstances in January, has been rehabilitated by Herr Hitler. very popular in Britain

in their would persist General von Fritsch has now been Chinese granted the honorary title of Colonel-primitive methods of manufacture

поло in-Chief of the 12th Artillery Regi- whereas

ment

in Schmeria, "in recognition of meth

were

the most up-to-date

being

India

"The

at-

Police evidence disclosed that the GO child Cheung Sul-kwan, was

was severely injured that she had to be taken to hospital, where she found

to be autfering from Internal Injuries.

After knocking down the child the his vehicle, driver disappeared in and did not subsequently report the accident to the police.

Pleading not guilty to the charge of falling to stop after an occident, the driver in court this morning said that he saw the child pick up its walk away after the clogs ond

accident, and thought it was not in- jured.

fined

Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith defendant $25, with the alternative of three months in Stanley Prison. The driver was also ordered to pay $5 to the injured child.

BAD FLOODS

IN JAPAN

Tokyo, June 15. Newspapers published in western Japan report that three days' con-

and Fukuoka prefectures, the lasses tinuous rain has damaged properly over a vast aren between Hiroshima totalling 5,000,000 yen.

Two hundred bridges have been destroyed, and railway tunnels and mines have been flooded.

At least twenty people have been drowned in the floods.

The Tokyo Weather Bureau ports that the floods are subsiding United Press.

Later.

of river

and

Cheung, the second offender, picked on an old woman of 77 years of age as his victim, but bis snatch-and-dash acties were unavailing, police quickly picking him up.

He

months* hard received six labour, and, in addition, was ordered 12 strokes of the cane.

Inspector A. V. Baker prosecuted.

NO SETTLEMENT ON GUN-POWER

London, June 15. Asked in the House of Commons whether the British Government bat reached any

agreement with the Government of the United States on and heavy the size of battleships guns the Prime Minister said that cs-

calation discussions were still pro- ceeding and pending their conclusion make any it was not possible to statement.

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colms to be merely a

1 The Wise Men come from the East but we find this is in the The question whether any efforts had been made to

West (0). Japan's secure

those agreement not

exceed to maximum figures did not therefore at British present arise, although the Government would naturally bear in mind that particular aspect of the matter-British Wireless,

WAR RISK RATES UNDER REVIEW

London, June 15.

in the course of a speech in the House of Commons debate on Trade to-night the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, Mr. K. H.

to the question Cross, referred marine war risks.

4 The sort of merchant who

(8).

disturbanco

# Stone

(partly

owing to drink?) (@). 10 Are the roads greasy when the

rain is this? (8).

12 Part of a flower (6). 13 "Tune lover" (anag) (9).. 15 "A train-band captain-was he".

10 Gilpin) (3),

may be found in a theatre, church or market? (5).

17 The doctors are sure to this in a

of

21

Mr. Crass said that in view of the

diet part of the things we live to cat (4).

Juan

"One

In his time plays many parts his Acts being seven

"As You Like It") (4). Local train services, schools and

methods of warfare, arrangements

fatal wound (5), business have been suspended in the changes which had taken place in the 24 This saw may easily cause

for the insurance of ships and car 27 Put in a tot for a car (9). Hiroshima and Sega districts

Loes in an emergency, which had been other Fukuoka prefecture, where

means of water prepared some years ago, were under 28 No learned person certainly (9).

31 Fish to get metal (5). bouts and transportation have been pressed into review. Any legislation must await 32 Ile is a monk not a collector of

this review-British | the result of service.

The dead include seven employees wireless.

the

Copl Mine Koros Nagasaki, who were caught in the mine and drowned.

Fifty-one mountain slides hove blocked all road communications- United Press.

of

SEVEN DIE IN STORMS

ner

Budapest, June 15. Phenomenal lightning and thunder-

FOUR EXECUTED FOR SABOTAGE

Moscow, June 15.

four revealed that

on

is It "Trofskylles"

have been executed near Novskiresky, in Siberle, charges of sabotage,

They are charged with having de- which, on May 1, drowned 24 people.

United Press.

furg (8).

33 Moral discourse (0),

34 To have fewer wants is un-

necessary here (8).

35 A poetic command from Thebes

(0).

1 This

DOWN

kind of communication would seem to involve less pro- At on telegrams (8),

2 To a certain extent (8).

3 Would & Cubist find it easy to

paint this cricketer? (9).

can employed storms throughout Hungary yester-lberately arranged a ferry accident

day killed seven people In various

and Ceylon. hla distinguished services in develop-in at the British public to the districts affected-United Press. ing the army of the Third

When the General, who ch

hls Chinese teas when Indian black teas of a began to arrive on the market is speeches in the staccalo tone

(the Ingoldsby"

Rev. sergeant issuing orders on the parade fairly accurately described by "Mr. ground, was retired by Herr Hiller in Thomas January, the world press rumoured Richard Harris Barham) the famous that he had Incurred the displeasure 19th century humorist when he says: "Neither having the nerves of a of Herr Hitler by opposing the Fuehrer's plans to assist General bull or a bison.

And hating pure greens like what Franco in Spain.

some cull pison!"

In later years, Chinese ten ro- an additional severe blow ceived by the Introduction of Emplro pre- ference schemes in practically all British colonies and dominions, And now the Chinese tea export bu Riness has dwindled down to min ute proportions.

The present honeur conferred by apparently disproves Herr -Hitler these rumours of discord, Reuter and Trans-Ocean.

HITLER NEEDED IN VIENNA

Vienna, June 16.

Of course, tea drinking in the 20th Century is not what it was in the 18th and 10th centuries. Then, with a lot of people the whiskey decanter was a regular decompaniment. As Ingoldsby said:

I see no great sin in it, To put just one spoon of St. Felix's

E, R. ELLIS,

It is cficially learned that Herr Hitlers expected in Vienna on Friday.

It I understood that his visit ta connected with dificulties which 1 gin in it!” have ariaens in the Austrian Nazi Party. Twelve hundred members of the party sent the Fuohrer a letter, naking him to sattle the matter personally-Reuter.

R.K.O. SURPRISED

Sir,With reference to the article

Sur-

in yesterday's issue of your journul on the subject of the banning of the March of Time, we are most prised at the statement by the official of the German Consulate to the. effect that "the public here has lost nothing in the banning of the film," Inasmuch as this directly contradicts what was said at the Censor Studio. After the film was re-censored, a of the German representative Consulate admitted that it was a very good film, but that he considered the commentary anti-German. Ho whether this could be astced eliminated, adding that it would be unfortunate if the picture could not be screened locally,

MONEY TO HELP CHINA CIVILIANS ·

• Washington, June 15. The American Red Cross Society reports that it has raised U.S.$576,- 000 for the relief of Chinese civiliano. The Society originally hoped to reach a goal of $1,000,000-United Press.

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We should like to take this op- portunity of stating that the March of Time was shown in the Alhambra in silent form simply because it was impossible to replace the subject ati such short nollen. Unless permission can be obtained for the film to be fus, Acidity and Less of Vigour by a Dod for new discovery called Cyntex (Bine exhibited with, the commentary, it

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8 Painter or writer (5).

7 This is proverbially right (8).

8 A red rag makes this and

attracts it (8).

11 "

honded justice" ("Mac- beth") (4).

14 A little bit of amusement (3). 16 "Best on Tom" (an unkind.

anngram) (D).

19 Hasten (0)..

20 Precious stone (8).

22 A period in the Ramadan (3).

23 Make a vessel this and it will not move, oddly enough (4).

25 An obviously false statement about a Boman numeral might be silent (6).

20 Anger (6).

29 It would upset a poor fellow to

drive him away (5).

30 A great law-giver (5).

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