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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 27, 1938.

HOW THE WORLD SPENT CHRISTMAS Snow In England: Gaiety In Shanghai: Holiday In China

Riot Squads In Shanghai Streets

SHANGHAI, Dec, 25.

THE BLARING SOUND of brass sections of the dance bands, and the clinking of glasses were almost drown- ed by the martial tramp of the hob-nailed boots as the French police riot squad, mostly composed of tough, six- foot Shantung corps, armed with extra heavy and long lead-weighted clubs, and steel helmets, took up posts in the notorious Blood Alley, as cabaret owners suggested extra guards due to the arrival of the new Italian cruiser Dardononco Collaoni,

AMERICANS SURVEY

PAST YEAR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. SURVEYING THE EVENTS of the past 12 months, high ad- ministration officials predicted that President Roosevelt would strengthen his foreign policy in

1939.

on

They based this assertion the 1939 developments concerning the United States rights and interests

tabulating them as follow: The consistent American pressure for maintenance of the Open Door, despite Japan's resistance to it. 2.The successful conclusion of the diplomatic controversy regarding the sinking of the gimboat Punay, accompanied by Japan's payment of Indemnity.

steady

insistence ht

3.-The . German and Italinn anti-Jewish decrees in respect of properties of American nationals,

Cabaret owners feared

that

the Italians might attempt to avenge the rough handling suffered by their comrades in the famous battle in Blond Alley on December 4, and therefore they asked for special precautions to be taken, although during the post week French police have been keep. ing a nightly watch on Cabaret Row due to the

that constant rumours the Italians were preparing to strike

blow. drastic

consisted Orstly of having connected with the riot squad, which night nearby an in- is standing by every

police station, secondly the creased Russian unit of members of the French police, who placed five men at each end of the Alley.

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precautions direct 'phone

The arrangements were the same for to-night, except that a riot squad Bloud of 24 men was on duty Alley.

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All was quiet. However, the police did not take chances, for fear that Italians and others might alart rumpus under the guise of the Christ- mas spirit, due to the fact that the Blood Alley cabarets are packed with servicemen of

of all nationalities.

All of Shanghai's night clubs and

The Foochow pole junk "Adventure" which returned to Shanghal Thursday after her mainmast was broken while en route to Hong- kang. The girl sailors are Miks Luba Schenkoff and Miss Oira

Alksner,

Roosevelt Hears Peace Sermon

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.

WHILE MILLIONS of the nation celebrated Christmas in cabarets had record reservations, and the traditional manner, President Roosevelt attended St. Thomas' criebrations topped everything pre- Episcopal Church to-day and heard, and apparently approved, vous, due to last year's pone cele-Rector Dr. Howard Wilkinson denounce. foreign ideologies and assumes Austrin's post-war debts to brations as a result of curfew restric-men who lead peoples from the path of peace.. the United States-following the form and the unsettled conditions.— artschluss.

4.-The demand that Germany

not

5.-President Roosevelt's statement that the United States will tolerate aggression against Canada, Rousevelt's inter-

0--President

vention in the September European orists.

7. The amicable settlement of

the old Mexican land confiscations.

8. Mr. Sumner Welles' recent rejection of Germany's protest against Mr. Ickes' speech,

United PrESA.

Hankow Faces Gloomy Xmas

NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN CHINA

CHUNGKING, Dec. 26. YESTERDAY WAS celebrat- ed as a national holiday on the

Dr. Wilkinson bused his sermon on the text; "Glory to God in the highest, pence on earth to men of goodwili," and he criticised world forces of uppression.

President Rooseveli nodded his ap- proval, and afterwards told the ree-

FURTHER SNOW IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Dec. 25. TEMPERATURES

REMAINED around freezing point on Christmas Day, with fresh snowfalls in some parts, and no thaw to rob the countryside of its white mantle.

Weather experts promise but milder conditions shortly, there are no immediate signs of a break in the wintry spell.

While railway conditions. stated to be practically normal, many roads are blocked, or ren- dered difficult, owing to drifts.-Reuter,

arc

snow-

UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATE

London, Dec. 25.

A party of unemployed, who have been for the past few days attempt- ing to attract attention to the condi- tions of themselves and their fellow unemployed by such methods as in- vading the Ritz Hotel for tea, by nuking speeches there, and by tak ing petition to Buckingham Palace for presentation to the King, de- monstrated to-day outside of the house of Lord Rushellite, chairman at the Unemployment Assistance Board.

About 120 men and women chant- ed songs and shouted slogans, and afterwards held a inceling nearby.-- Reuter.

Surprise For Young Burglar

tor: "We think alike,” and he praised; Approaching a man sitting on u wall at Blackheath one night recent-

the sermon,

Dr. Wilkinson inentioned no names ly, William Henry McDougall, aged and no nations, but he warned that 10, asked for a match. cessation of hostilities or the preven- After some

conversation, Mr- tion of warfare did not guarantee Dougall said to the man: "I have peace.

done several Jobs' this month and I

occasion of the "National Re-implied Meanwhile British sailors have Birth Day." marking the

an-

Hankow, Dec, 25. While Bie situation in the French 9.Promulgation of a continental Concessim remains unchanged, the defence programme, accompanied by Concession is facing gloomy pro- the strengthening of national defence, spects for Christmas, despite the feet that a cinema is opening for the first particularly the naval forces.

10.-Extension of credits to China. time since the Japanese occupation, 11. Muitaterni pledges of solidar- ity at the Pan-American Conference been denied shore liberty.

Food is adequate in other Conces-niversary of Chiang Kai-shek's at Lima.

instance, a new safe return from Sian, following the reciprocal sion areas, us for

the market has been established in a re- his kidnapping in 1936. including agreement with the United Kingdom.trative District Three, where beef is

sidential street of Special Adminis

The city streets were beflagged and Officials are hopeful that the Limhanging from telephone poles, cub-thousands of girls sold Bowers, news- pacts will promote the democratic bages line the sidewalk, and croc-papers and magazines for the beneût movement everywhere, an It is point- ed out that that occurred almostery, cigarettes, matches and second-of the Government's ward

band clothing are displayed on Reuter.

12-Extension of

trade

agreement,

simultaneously with Mr. Welles' re- dickery stands-United Press. jection of Germany's protest

Omcials, also declared that the Ickes' "Incident" is now closed, and

no further developments are expect- ed unless Germany Inkes further steps in the matter.--United Press.

After The

Relief Fund Nears Children's

Four Lakhs

The British Fund for the Relief of

Distress in China has now received

a total of $372,077,

fusid.

Hunters Were Hunted

Children's By Big Boar

Matinee

Auckland.

A big boar chased five well-known New Plymouth pig hunters into trees and held them there for an hour. during an exciting battle in which 15 were fred into boar by-

One of the latest contributions A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy won shots

$5,000 from the Fulchow Overseas!

The sermon contained the same am going to get a suit to-night. There criticism of Totalitarianis a house up the road that's easy." ideologies as those embodied in Together the two men walked up President Roosevelt's Chicago speech. the road, and alter looking at one The rector said that there was house in which a light appeared less peace on earth to-day than since entered the garden of another. the Armistice on November 11, 1918. -United Press.

McDougall pleked up a stone. They went to a side window and McDougall, saying "Here goes," pre- pared to break the glass.

His companion then disclosed that he was a plain-clothes policeman.

At the Old Balley recently, Me-

The Empress of Japan left Yokohama at 4 pm, un Saturday and with arrive at Hongkong at 8 a.. on Friday. Shel will depart for Manila at 4 pm on the Dougall was sentenced to three years' same day,

Borstall detention.

LIBEL SUIT RECALLS

5s, in a competition at afore he gave up the grim struggle. A

Chinese Relief Committee of Kuala Southend cinema matinee.

Lumpur,

which

direct to His

sent the

sald After the performance, amount!

Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote.

The battle occurred in the buck country of Uruti, the first shot from

Excellency the police officer in the juvenile court re- one of the hunters, smashing one of

cently three 13-year-old Inds who the boar's huge tusks. The "Telegraph" has been request-but seen the money presented, fol-

The Infuriated animal charged ed to point out that in acknowlowed the winner as he toddled home!

the to tell his parents.

suddenly, the hunters scrambling out sun, ledging receipt of this

At

one quiet spot it to

the of reach just in time. shadows" put his hand over the Usts

on boy's mouth, another jammed a knee in his back and the other secured his arms to his side.

in

their

B.F.R.D.C. wrongly ascribed His Excellency Friday.

ITALIANS AND RUSSIANS CLOSE CONSULATES

Moscow, Dec. 25. Following diplomatic negotiations,

it has been decided to close the Soviet Consulate-General in Milan and the Italian Consulate-General in Odessa. --Reuter.

of

CLOTHES RIPPED

ORDEAL OF

BARONESS

BARONESS who, in her counsel's words, had "sur- vived an experience containing all the ingredients of an Athenian tragedy," brought a libel action before Mr. Justice Humphreys in the King's Bench Division re- cently.

She was Marguerite Baroness Abinger, widow of the Sixth Baron Abinger, and the action arose out of a passage in "The One fell to the ground, his clothes | World's Greatest Detective Stories." being ripped by the boar before he Then they robbed him of his 55., scrambled up a tree, which they proceeded to share.

Dogs bailted up the boar, where- The three were remanded, necused upon the hunters descended and of robbery with violence,

poured shots into the animal without Tilling it.

The boar charged again and one The Lloyd Triestino liner Conte Rose hunter silpped over a clift, but a tree is scheduled to arrive from Italy at saved him from falling to his death.

p.m. to-morrow. She will depart forj Shanghal at 6 man, on Thursday,

Finally the boar collapsed from loss of blood and died.

SOVIET CELEBRATIONS "Godless Movement' Demonstration

MOSCOW, Dec. 26.

THE SOVIET UNION again celebrated Christmas without any church services, except those in churches maintained by the diplomatic corps in Moscow.

The traditional Christmas celebra- Similar demonstrations had been tions of Imperial Russin have been staged throughout Soviet Russia dur- | completely abolished, and evening the last two weeks. Christmas trees are atielly for Russians, many of whom still eele- bidden.

brate Christmas secretly in the tradi

The "Godless Movement" singed a tional manner, were warned that

demonstration

colebrated to-day, those who Large-scale

Christmas the white

demonairatory earried would be regarded as "reactionaries“ · placards with the slogan: "Religion (opposed to the present regime. is Opium for the People."

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is hide, which was nearly two Inches sick, was almost bullet- proot.

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She sued Mr. Guy B. Logan, the know that "Madame Steinhell," now author. Syndicate Publishing Com- Marguerite Baroness Abinger, still

Lane Publications, existed pany, Limited, Limited, und Periodical Press,

Mr. Theobald Muthew, defending Limited, who, it was announced had said his clients were glad to have the agreed to pay substantial damoges

jopportunity of expressing their regret and costs,

for the annoyance caused and offered Mr. John Fennell, for the baroness, their sincere apologies for having said that at the end of last century, permitted the sage to appear. It when she was the wife of Adolphe would be deleted in future editions. Steinheil, a French artist, she was n The record in the ense was accord- leader of Parisian social and political

ingly withdrawn on the terms life and so

many powerful agreed. made enemies.

IN PRISON

In 1900, a tragedy occurred in her home.

Воголева Marguerite

Abinger figured in one of the most remark- able canes in France. She married She was arrested and was in the painter, Steinhell, in 1000. Paria prison for 13 months awaiting trial.

After a trial lanting 11 days she was nequitted and her innocence was conclusively proved.

In 1008 she was found gagged and bound to a bed. Her mother, also gagged, was lying near a bed and her husband, M. Steinhell, WAN found strangled near a doorway.

Madame Stelnheli, only survivor of

The first reaction of a young man who sat watching throughout the the tragedy, told how she had been trial was to marry her. He after-awakened by intruders, who attacked wards became Lord Abinger,

From the frequency of libeis pub-

her, her mother and her husband.

Later in the year she was arrested

shed since then, there appeared to on a false charge of murder and was

be some confusion of Identity in the found not guilty. Her acquittal wOB

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