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SPECIALISTS GO TO

EX-KAISER

New York.

Doctor Wilhelm C. Huebener, of Cincinnati, prominent heart specialist, left New York re- cently on a mystery visit to the ex-Kaiser at Door.

The doctor has been pledged to silence regarding the nature of his mission, but it in rumoured that with other world-famed doctors he is to alve the ex-Kaiser a thorough medical examination.

Several times in the past Dr. Hluchener has been connulled by the ex-Kalser.

"It would be uneilleal for me to say anything about my visit," said Huebener,

Empire Tea Centenary

Monday

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

THE GREAT CHINA

IF

TRADE ISSUE

London.

IF the British Government is to be moved at all over China it will be over the trade issue. This alone can shake it out of its rather easy going attitude.

The Home papers are devoting more and more atten- tion to the issue. The "Daily Herald" recently published the following:

Economic reprisals against Japan for her freezing out of foreign trade interests from China are being seriously considered in London and Washington.

Reports from the Ambasadors of dor-head of the native stuff-was the two countries In Chlua have in-1 sppointed.

dicated for some time that Japan is | It is believed that the new com deliberately destroying all foreign pany is one of the branches of the trade competition.

cattore, waterworks, companies, London,

CEREMONIAL auction and are Aception will be features of the

SHIPS BARRED Foreign shipping, for example, har been barred from using the Yangtse, The Japanese say this is due to the danger of mines and nearby military operations, but Japanese ships hare son und Co., and Buttered and

newly formed Japanese "Central China Development Company," whose charter includes shipping, communi-

and

power public

transport, Asheries, and inland transportation,

Two British firma, Jardine Mathe- Swire, at present largest

shipping Interepent the

celebration on Jan. 16 next of the been plying "oad that a Japanese Yangtse River and the China const.

hundredth anniversary of the Arst auction in London of tea produced within the Empire.

In connection with the centenary sumple of the finest teas to be rown will be selected by a Bleulers) Conference and presented in a golden casket to the King and Queen.

on the

a thriving trade, It was announced sponsored "monopoly" company has been established in Shanghai to con- In recent months they have suffer- trol the Yangtse shipping, and willed considerably from the closing of the Yangtse and coastal dimculties, start work in the New Year.

This is only one of countless ways ed under a monopolistic system they If the Yangise were to be exploit- in which foreign interests, British and American, in particular, are would lose business

Inrge being ousted from the China market.

All the other papers roughly agree that joint action is being discussed. This is the "Dally Express."

EXPERTS AT WORK

The Empire tea industry which has developed from a small garden en- ploying a few men now employs For SONG time experts of the 2,000,000 Inen and has more than United States Department of Com-} 210,000,000 of British capital investmerce and the Board of Trade here 11, More than 800,000,000! have been studying what retaliatory

could be taken. Their

schle."

pounds of Empire tea is new pro- | steps investigations are now so far heavier duties on

duced annually.

DOMINATING POSITION

on a

BRITAIN MAY HIT BACK AT JAPAN "Britain may hit back at Japan for her trade methods by putting, odvanced that Mr. Joseph Kennedy, going into British Colonies. This is Japanese goods the United States Ambassador here, one of the steps under consideration has gone to Washington and United States Ambassador in Claining to close the Chlua and Manchu

the

as a result of Japan's action in try- has been recalled for consultation.

Significantly,

kuo markets to British and all other 100, Sir Ronald foreign trade. British Ambassador

The "News Chronicle" contains the

Sir Walter Smiles, M.F., chairman of the Centenary Committee, stated ma speech recently that the districts crescribed on rough maps of a century agu as a mixture of uninhabited Lindsay, jungle and

Swing had been trans- Washington, has arrived in London] following:-

eron holiday." ferred by British capital and enter prise Into a land of neat tea gardens One

step envisaged in American with railways, roads, electric light, circles is to deprive Japan of her. wireless, cinemas and most of the benefits

under the most-favoured- uation clause. Were such a step to amenities of modern civilisation.

They now had in India and Ceylon research stations and laboratories where every process in growth and manufacture of tea was scientifically

studied and records tabulated.

"Within 5 years of its birth the Empire Industry was exporting more tea than Chinu and to-day dominated the tea markets of the world."

£500 Award In Horoscope Libel Case

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of

world,

January 9, 1939. Laury, Supreme Coert

Sult for custody of his children has been filed in Miami, Fla., by Guy Maynard Liddell, chief of England's Civil Inteligence Depart- ment. Children are shown with their mother, Mrs. Calypso Liddell, daughter of the late Lord Revelstoke of England, at Coral Gables home of their half-uncle, L. Suitern Tailer. They are June, Peter, Gay and Maude.

EMPIRE NEWS

AUCKLAND.

ISLE OF ROMANCE SEARCH

An effort will shortly be made to ensure that there Are adequate

YOUNG couple who met on holl- supplies of all gas-producing coals A day on the Norfolk Broads, and which New Zealand needs.

eliminate

decided to wed and go to the South Australia altogether,

Seas, were married at St. Jude's-on- the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb,

Imports

This

from

bridegroom, Mr.

Patrick

GROWING JAPANESE MENACE TO TRADE-BY VERNON BARTLETT "Although by more insidious be taken, the British Government methods than those adopted by Ger- would almost certainly follow sult. many and Italy in Europe, Japan is President Roosevell also has the very actively menacing British inter- power, if discrimination against the ests in the Far East. importation or sale of American goods is proved, to exclude any or in Tokyo summoned the British and would

Last week the Foreign Minister oll articles" from the ofTending Unlied

Ambassadors ed States country.

and emphasised his policy of gradually It is doubtful whether suck drastic excluding their compatriots from the

More Motor Vehicles-The num-recently. steps are yet contemplated, but the economie life of the Far East. question of increasing duties

ber of Hcensed motor vehicles in Japanese imports is one

There was not, I am

The Dasured, that New Zealand is 205,137, an increase that has direct threat to denounce the Wash of 10.8 per cent, over the Agure for Forbes, of Southway, Hampstead, a been

cen closely studied,

Ington Nine Power

Treaty which

the same period last year. Motor-21-years-old apprenifee in a City ten Is In this the experts have had the reported in some newspapers, and cycles show a decline of 7 per cent, broking firm, has given up his post- example of the Japanese themselves which would doubtless lead to coun- At the beginning of this year the ter measures against

Industrial Expansion. Mr. D. Giving on a South Sea Island.

tion to realise his lifelong dream of Puppet Government in Peking intro-in other parts of the pancse trade Sullivan,

Minister of Railways, duced a new tariff for imports into The feeling

Commerce and Industries, stated His wife, formerly Miss Joyce North China under which Japanese London is due rather to the fact that of a bureau of industry had been boatbuilder's clerk at Roxham, Nor- 01 resentment in recently that the central executive Bishop, 23-year-old daughter of a goods benefited by from 25 to 75 per by a policy of granting preferences formed to concentrate on working folk, shares his enthusiasm for baland

Any action of this nature would to Japanese and Manchukuean goods out plans for industrial expansion life. DAMAGES of £500 for libel be a serious blow to Japan, for the of British goods, Japan

and of putting obstacles in

and te establishment the Industries.-Reuter. and slander were awarded in British Empire and the United States the "horoscope" ease before Mr. are her principal customers, absorb-obvious breaches

control of China oining without treatyonce

the SOUTH AFRICA es of Justice Charles in the King's roughly 50 per cent of

exports.

her very fact of the war has been accept- Bench Division recently.

But retaliation of this cort is cal-,

ed and condoned by Great Britain. They were in favour of Mr. Nor-culated to lend to counter-reprisals, I understand are met with the bland The British Ambassador's protests,

DAMAGES CLAIM mun Crook and his wife. Hettie Eli- most pains-taking study of the ques- the Far Eastern

and it

AFTER MURDER zabeth Crook, trading us the Globe Syndicate, and Mr. John Prior tion is being made before any deci-benent of China.

are to the

CAPE TOWN. Exall, whom they sued. A cross-

is reached.

assurances A lawsuit thought to be without action by Mr. Mitchell against Mr.

carry less and less weight with the precedent in the Empire opened in Crook and Mr. Exail for damages Meantime the "Daily Telegraph" not be surprising if dimculler be recently when

British Government, and it Would the Supreme Court at Cape Town for alleged conspiracy and slander publishes the appended statement came acute early in the New Year." murdered man sued a man nequitted the widow of o fulled.

from its own Correspondent:-

Mr. and Mrs. Forbes will be joined The "Manchester Guardian" or of the murder for £3,000 damages in the South Seas by Mr. Gerald Shanghai, Monday, there was lie evidence to go to the British shipping circles at a report siderable prostess in Manchester and March.

Tuesday "Great concern is felt here in cette pointed out that the "Buy"

The widow's husband, a pawn-

Gordon, a young planter. Japan" movement has jury against Mrs. Alice Emily Bay that a Japanese concern, the Yangtse district in the past few days. Man the present damages action was broker, was shot in his shop In les, who was foined as defendant in Shipping Company, has been formed chester's part in the "Boycott Japan" acquitted by a jury of a murder In July the defendant in the lite! proceedings and dismissed with the object of controlling traffic day on Saturday will be in the form charge. her from the suit with costs.

on the Yangise under the inonopolis-

The judge who presided at The plaintiffs complained that, the lie system, introduced by the Japa- ander parades in the afternoon the murder trial is now one of the

evening. Show-cards

conveyin the assurance "We don't sell

Mr. Justice Charles had ruled

sion

economic

Is

is for this reason that the assurance that in bolwo

1. M.

con

new

Globe Syndicate having prepared anese into many branches of trade in prepared for use in shopere being two justices hearing the claim for

series of horoscopes, Mr. Mitchell China. wrote to customers with whom they had left horoscopes suggesting they was floated on Saturday at a meet-by the new group to let the public It is reported that the company nese goods" and steps will be taken were "colourable imitation of hising at which 50 Japanese directors know which copyright horoscopes."

were elected and a Chinese compra- undertaking.

shows give such

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"We ure going to be gloriously happy," she said. "Pat has been sav ing up for this for years, and he's got about £000 now.

"We are sailing In a French trad- ing bost from Marseilles on Sun-

day week, and will bay a small

yacht when we reach Tahiti.

"Then we shall go cruising around until we find our ideal island."

GARLANDS

Mr. Gordon, who has spent many years on the Polynesian islands and has written several books, drapea the bridal couple with "lek"-al- landa of Hawaiian flowers at the wedding reception.

Mr. Forbes played an Hawailan gultar.

"I was taught to play the guitar by on Huwalian years ago," he said, "and FUTURE OF DAMAGED forme! my own band.

"We shall be away for about two R.A.F. BOMBER

years,"

SYDNEY,

The decision of the British Air Ministry is awaited as to whether the record-breaking R.A.F. Vickers Wellesley bomber, which made a

forced landing recently, shall be taken over by the Australian Air Force.

£3,122,000 For a London Tunnel

London.

London's new tunuci under the The machine was badly damaged Tunnel is to cost £3,122,000. The Thames near the present Blackwall when it came down in a ploughed..CC. is to be asked on Tuesday to Aeld near Richmond aerodrome, New pass a capital estimate of £2,824,000 South Wales, but it could be repaired so that work on from spare parts already here.

tunnel may start at once.

The new tonnel, which will The two other Vickers Wellesley run parallel to and about 600 feet bombers which made the record flight on the down stream side of the exist- from Egypt to Australia begon a Dg Blackwall Tunnel, will be used programme of visits to Canberra, by south bound traffic, while north Melbourne, Adelalde, Hobart and bound traffic will use the old funnel, Perth before returning to England The work will involve the demolition from Darwin.

of a large number of old houses, and new accommodation will have to be found for 1,824 people, at an est- mated capital cost of £290,220.

South Africa

RAILWAY INQUIRY

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after nearly 50 years in the com- pany's service. CANADA

SEVEN SENATE

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Montreal. Senator Alber! Joseph Brown ins

BUY "ANCHOR" IT IS THE BEST mentioned the high rate of accidents died at Montreal, at the age of 75.

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Among these shortcomings Wis

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His death brings the total number of Ex-Mayor

vacancies in the Dominion Senate to Bentenced. Thomas Looney, an ex-Mayor of Kimberley Reven. and past president of the Chamber Senator Brown was a leading mem of Commerce, has been sentenced to ber of the legal profession at Quebec, two months' Imprisonment, ausp-He was appointed Queen's Counsel in ended for two years, for falling to 1880, and entered the Senate in 1932. keep proper business records up to wo Killed In Air CrashCapt. the time when his business was Dave Imrie and First Oncer! Jack sequestrated., pole Brad Herald were killed when their derni | Shipping Agius:

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