Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 25, 1939.
The Powers, Japan And Manchuria
·
Our Own Correspondent
London.
THE critics of the Government are still using on a wholesale scale the constantly repeated allegation that Great Britain refused to co-operate with America at the time that Japan commenced aggression against Man-
churia.
I recently sent on an extract from a public speech by Mr. Wickham Steed to Sir John Simon and I have now heard from him in which he says:~
"I am glad you have noticed my statement in the House on December 19 and I hope you may have been able to make some use of it, as London correspondent to Far Eastern papers. The
letter written by Sir John Pratt
to the "Times" and published on
November 10, was really quite Potatoes Too Big,
conclusive.. I am afraid there is no direct way of stopping Irresponsible chatter in a con- trary sense. The only thing to
do is to watch it and contradict
it whenever possible."
Fined £2
A SCOTTISHI farmer was ined £2 at Potato Marketing Board Inquiry in Edinburgh recently for selline potatoes over 11b, cach In
I append this statement again In| weight. Its compact form:--
There is no truth in the statement that is Majesty'a Government lagged behind the United States. One of the best and fullest statements) of the true facts was published quite recently in the "Times" On 10th November in a long letter sent by Sir John Pratt. Sir John Prait, who is now a rebred civil servant, was at that time in the Far Eastern De-
partment of the Foreign Office, and he sets out the whole story there with the greatest accuracy. He anys that there is an absurd bellef” In some quarters "that the United States actually proposed sanction or strong measures to check Japanese aggres- sion and that the Brlish Govern- ment refused,”
There is not the slightest syllabic of truth in that statement. The letter ulto suys:
time:
Caplain J. Mollett, chairman, said it was the first case which the board had been called upon to deal with under a recent regu- Tation.
This states that "no registered producer may aril for human con- sumption any potato which Cx- ceeds 1b, in weight.”
The farmer was said to have had five plis containing large potatoes which he held back. These pits contained 25 tons, as against 45 which had been sold.
£1,000 Spent
On Search
on
Henry Wilcoxon, 33, British film actor, and Joan Woodbury, 22, Atm Actress, after their wedding in a quiet ceremony in Hally- wood. The marriage was on the bride's 22nd birthday, In keeping with the family custom of weddings on birthdays. She wore her,
nother's bridal gown.
Murderer Foiled By A Bottle
"Here is my Highwayman's Bottle," said Mr. Bacon, proudly holding up a rare specimen blow in the days of Dick Turpin. It was so made that it could be strapped to a belt and could be slipped from its place for a man to take a drink while in the saddle.
BOTTLES-and empty ones at that are treasures "MIT. Simson sintes that in
BRISBANE, to Mr. John M. Bacon, of Earl's Court, and at his house February, 1932, he put forward an proposal for a Joint Invocation of the year-old State Public Service typist, in existence.
MISS MARJORIE NORVAL 30-in Trebovir-road are to be seen some of the oldest bottles Nine-Power Treaty and he adds" who vanished after being driven by a the letter then recites the statement man friend to Central Rallway
They date back to the time of Charles I, and many of them of Mr. Stinson, Sir John Pratt con-1 Station at 7 o'clock Armistice have curious histories. tinue and I know that this is ac- night, has become Queensland's most curate, because I was there at the expensive "missing friend."
In spite of the offer of £500 reward "In making this statement Mr. for Information leading to her dis- Simion's memory has deceived him. covery or finding of her body, police The facts are that on receiving the are no nearer a solution of the draft of Mr. Simson's proposed in-mystery than when she Wiig Arst vocation the Foreign
Office tele-reported missing on November 19. phoned to Geneva a paragraph con Since then, the police search has taining the non-recognition doctrine, cost more than £1,000.
This is an armpit-bottle, so fashion- and this paragraph
Almost every one of the thousand cd that it could be concealed under was 'embodied in the declaration issued by the 12 mem-odd police in the State has been
the armpit of its owner. In this bers of the Council on 16th February from the C.I.B. have travelled more could carry around with him his own drawn into the search and patrol cars manner a person fearing polsoning answer was handed to the American; than 5,000 miles chasing likely clues.supply of drink which he could be
for transmission to Mr.
sure had not been tampered with. stating that the British
SAVED HIS LIFE
1932. At the same time a written
Embarry
that
those
POLICE OPEN ROOM
Another old bottle has an interest- ing history.
so feston Gracie Fields
Says 'I'm Always Broke'
New York.
vernment was
most anxious
inus to Another cost will be compensation Co-operate with America in this for the three Air Force officers and
This particular bottle was once the on
Gructo Fields is "broke." She said matter, and that, in view of their ad the policeman who were killed herence to this declaration, it was duly when an R. A. A. F. Scanul Curpach, Lochiel, an aged lady who viewers in Hollywood, and the story property of a Miss Flona Cameron, of so with great cheerfulness to inter- hoped
amphibian erashed while searching can remember her great-grandfathers being printed with the very neces of the Lengue Powers who were signatories to the for the girl last Monday,
Inquires have led to but one con- telling her stories as a tiny girl ofsary explanations about who Gracio Ninc-Power Treaty might also asso unique-Miss Norval is dead and her his escapades as a Jacobite ugeni.. Fields Is. elate themselves with the propused body disposed of. Joint Invocation."
At one banquet this very bottle Some police think it is possible she saved his life, for, suspecting myself, at Geneva, took this pro- might be found alive in a nursing glass had been tampered with, posal of Mr. St.meon, brought it be home, but C.I.B. officials will be"accidentally" knocked it over, fore the appropriate body, and moved surprised if she is.
discover A grim sedimont at the It should be adopted by the that it
Iler room at the hotel where she bottom, Nations. League
he
She is known here as the "British bla comedienne who earns $1,000,000 1 tolycar." but not one American cinema, stage or gramophone fan in n hun- dred has ever seen or heard her.
was so adoptd, stayed remained locked unti the Then, under the baleful eye of his Gracie's explanation of why she is and, as soon as it was adopted, a mes- police took charge of her belongings. would-be murderer host, he called "broke" goes this way: "Most of my sage came from the United States
for a fresh glass and motioned to income sms to go to the British Government thanking for the
his own servant to All it from the Government in taxes and most of the efforts we were making and express-gue of Nations. There could not, armpit bolile.
Trest seems to go-you know, my ing the gratification of the United therefore, be a more ridiculous per- He continued to drink his
own family and friends and charity. I States Governm^n! at the action; version of the facts than that which wine that night and ever after- have always been 'stoney." It doesn't taken by the Assembly of the Leu-bas ben referred to.
reem to matter much."
1
wards!
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His child's future nearly ruined NIGHT STARVATION
by
OH, MR JACKSON, I WANT YOU TO MEET MR. GRANGER. HE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOU
IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
AND, SU HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
M-M-M. DELICIOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS MIXED WELL.
(THINKS)
THEY ARE GOING TO SACK
BEEN TOO GOOD LATELY.
JACKSON
A NEW MAN! THAT MEANS COULDN'T AFFORD SOMEBODY AND IT'S BOUND TO LOSE HIS JOB, TO BE ME.MY WORK HASN'T HE WANTED TO
GIVE HIS BOY ∙A GOOD EDUCATION. IF" ONLY HE DIDN'T ALWAYS FEEL
TWO MONTHS LATER“
CONGRATULATIONS, MR.
JACKSON, ON YOUR PROMOTION AS DISTRICT ¡MANAGER. YOU HAVE DONE SPLENDID
WORK.
(THINKS)
MY WORRIES ARE ALL OVER. THAT
HORLICKS IS WONDERFUL STUFF)
TIRED. IN
DESPAIR HE
DECIDED TO SEE
A DOCTOR.
THERE IS
NOTHING EXACTLY) I KNOW, MR.
WRONG WITH ME JACKSON, IT HOLDS DOCTOR BUT YOU BACK AT YOUR ALWAYS FEEL SO WORK WE CALL THIS TIRED EVEN WHEN NIGHT STARVATION I WAKE UP YOU SEE, YOU ARE NOT REPLACING USED- UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP HORLICKS [REGULARY AT BEDTIME
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