1939-04-04 — Page 17

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 4, 1939.

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THAT

BIO

BULLY

DONALD

JUST LICKED

US

AGAIN, UNCA DONALD!

DUCK

DON'T WORRY, BOYS, YOU'LL LICK HIM SOME DAY! REMEMBER--"GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW!"

TWO HOURS LATE FOR SUPPER! JUST

WAIT'LL I

FIND 'EM!

So! WHAT'RE

YA DOIN' UP THERE?

By Walt Disney

EATIN' JUST} ACORNS,

UNCA DONALD!

(Dne 1919, Walt Disney Production

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HONG-KONG où Con Stamweiger

samuse

où l'on trafique, où l'on vole, où l'on tue ой.

et dont les prisons sont pleines....

A REPRODUCTION OF THE HEADING IN "HEBDO"

Paris Magazines Grotesque Libel On Hongkong And Our People

"Hongkong-where they laugh, trade, steal and kill, and where the prisons are full up."

This is the heading for an extraordinary article on Hongkong, pub- lished recently in the Paris magazine “Hebdo.'

The article is signed by Howard Bruce.

"Until recently Shanghai was It alleges that Hongkong has 3,000 hotels, and the only more important than Hongkong, people who have a steady trade are the policemen and the but since a few months the British port of the 'Rising Sun Station-laster!

has become the great city of the Yellow Continent.

ís "Hongkong a yellow Chicago with an addition of a small New York.

"Hongkong lives and moves with the jitters from sun-rise to, sun-set and from sun-set to sun-rise," Howard claims.

Most Hongkong people, he claims, gets their money without

much work.

On an average there are between 2,000 and 3,000 arrests every week, but "never anyone arrested is able to do his term In prison because for the last five years the prisons have been full up.

"Of ten people you meet in the street at least one third are escaped prisoners.

The most popular sport in Hongkong is stealing." Below we give a translation of the article in full: "One Chinese City (Chinese the Chinese Empire. in name, only because it is a "That city, a compound of British Possession) centralises races, of fight and of trade, this at the moment the activity of asiatic Chicago, is Ilongkong.

A GIRL HAS TO

LIVE... SO SOME

BODY MUST GIVE!

Pardon 'em? You'll

Forgive these little #rackot dears" any- thing, because they pay their way with a million laughs!

PARDON

OUR NERVE

with

LYNN BARI

JUNE GALE GUINN WILLIAMS MICHAEL WHALEN EDWARD BROPHY Executive Producer Sol M.Wurtzol Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone Screen Play by Robert Elli and Halen Logan

A 20th Century-Fox Picture?

TO-MORROW

AT THE

KING'S

fr

"Leprous Walls”

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NEWS IS KNOWLEDGE

QUESTION. How many new merchant ships were launched in 19387

ANSWER-1,119 vessels with a tonnage of 3,033,503, the high- est world total for 17 years. The Agures were issued by Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Q-What proportion of the world launchings was made from British berths?

A.—34 per cent, of the total, or 1,030,375 tonn. The percentage' compares unfavourably with the 1930 Aigures, when Britain launched more than half the ivorid's new merchant vessels. 2.What was the biggest vessel

launched in the year? A-The new liner Queen Eliza- beth, 85,000 tons. She is the largest ship in the world. (The Normandie is 83,000 tons and the Queen Mary 81,000 tons.) Q-Whileh country ranked second in the building of new ships? A-Germany with a total of 480,- 797 tons. The largest German shin launched in the year toas the liner Robert Ley, 22,000 tons.

Q: Where does Hongkong rank? A.-Ninth,

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A Look Through

The "Telegraph"

FRESH

MUSHROOMS

$2.25 per lb.

Lane, Crawford

Limited

-RADIO-

A ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 k.c.)

Hal Lorenzo & Toby Gray 50 YEARS AGO

April 4, 1889.

From the Studio The vague rumour wo hinted at the ather day being in circulation in the|

LONDON RELAYS cupital of the Two Kwangs to the effect that a concession had been granted by the Viceroy for the construction of u Radio Programme Broadcast by rallw hetween Kewluun and Canton Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. is strideant of A

great commercial and on Short Wave from 1-3.15 pm. movement shortly to Lis started at our and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 M.C.'s per gates, that can scarcely fall to make second. wonderful changes and prove mutually Ε. Κ. Τ. advantageous to China and this Colony. Front small nucious, with a contre In pulous Canton and its elghty-mile cession from St. John's Cathedral. circumference sweeping around, with 12.30 p.m. Carroll Gibbons and Is Kowloon and the "Malta and Gibraltar Boy Friends.

12 noon Relay of Service of Inter-

1.15 Reuter and Rugby Press,. Weather and Announcements,

1.30 Dance Music.

Super Swing: Junk Man's Sere- nade In-Do....Ovie Alston und His

Orchestra: Waltz. I Hum a Waliz..

Vietor Silvester and His Orchestra. 1.40 Relay of the Rotary Timin Speech from the Roof Garden of the langkong Hotel. Speaker:-Miss E Atkins-Subject:-"Education la Re- fugco Camps,"

2.15 Close Down,

6.00 pm. Relay of the Danco Or- chestra from the Roof Garden of the

of the Far East" on its tangent, as

Sugar lose (Fals Woller); Breakin' Hongkong llotel. Kigantic network of railway commanica In a Pair of Shoes (Stept); I was

(u) Outside of Paradise; (b) Lul- tion might be started in China, and the whole Empire opened up to trade Anything but Sentimental (Flim laby in Rhythm; (e) I'm' Madly in civilisation and progress.

"Take my Tip"); Stars Feil on Alu- Love with You; (d) Miss Annabella We are not in a position to say what boom (Perkins); Judy (Lerner); Mr. Brown; Record. Love in Bloom teps have alzenly been taken to bring Dodds Takes the Air (Film Selec- (Rainger) Hate Myself (Ager)....

Sydney Torch, Orgun. this out talked of Kowloon-Canton tion); Double Dr Nothing (Flim railway to a practical hearing, but doubt Selection). Remember? Intro. You

(a) Loch Lomond; (b) When the hot that It Is the outcome of native forgot to remember; Mr. Heart Heather Is in Bloom: (c) Believe Me: enterpriar, emunaling this colony.

directly from Stood Still: I'll See you Again; My (d) I found my Yellow Basket: Re- Two (Dubin); cords. Melody for Seplember in the Rain (Dubin). James Melton; Raisin' The Rent (from Cotton Club Revue).....Roy Burgy and Ramona

We may with a very short time Blue Heaven Can't Help Lovin' That expect to see the Kowloon-Canton Iron Man; This Year's Kisses. horne snarling, and shaking its steamy. 1.00 Time and Weather. tanne along the fertile plains extend-] 1.03 Grein Keller, City of Rams. Of all the vast under

ing from our trans-marine town to the The Laugh was on Me (Carter); (Thomson) lags we have yet seen started in When I learn French Hongkong this Carton-Kawloon tallway Trust in Me (Age); A Little Hamble

The most popular sport in Hong-cheme stands Facile princeps. That, in Springtime with you (Sarony), the incipient village of Kowison with, kong is stealing. People stent its extensive tracts of level ground, its little everywhere.

healthiness broad ronda nad reputed

devinesa in the nummer months,, will rise tant-like and be in the course) of a few years im important township. and that the port and husiness of Hong- long will increase far beyond what was ever deemed possible does not require! much gift of prophecy to foresee.

"One can easily imagine that Hongkong is heaven to thieves when one realises that the Judges have only just got time to pass sentence on murderers, for whom there is not even room in the prisons.

once.

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Emigres From Germany

(a) I'll Dream To-night; (b) My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean; (c) Soll- tude; (d) Yes, We live no Bananas.

7.00 7.00 Closing Local Slock Quote-

tions.

7.0

A Variety Programme. St. Louis Blues (Handy).....The Baswell Slaters; We Agree Perfectly (Coots) and On Top of a Bus (Arden) Bermon with Orchestra; ,...Le Everything's in Rhythm with my Heart, (From "First a Girl"); Tho

Jessic Little Silkworm (Hoffman).

Not Only Jews Who Matthews: Flanagan and Allen Me-

Leave Country

mories Introducing:-Can't we Meet Again, A Million Tears, Underneath the Arches, Wanderer, Dreaming, Where the Arches used to Be.... BERLIN, Apr. 3. Flanagan and Allen; Medley, Intro. JEWISH emigration increased The Girl in the Little Green Hat, the total of emigration from This is Romance, My Heart Ilumped ..Len Bermon with Germany in 1938 to 22,263 as over the yoursuit Gu (Bin

Orchestra; Let Yourself The following information about the compared with 14,203 in 1937, and I'm Putting All my Eggs in One

"There is no instance for the past

There is, perhaps, not a city in 15 years where a man who wears his Europe, where mare drink in connumed watch and chain on his walsicoat has than in St. Petersburg. The population not had his pocket picked at least unsiderably short of a mution. Yat they drink every day 10,000 battles of "The Old City with its leprous

wine, 1,500,000 pints of ale, and 1,600,- walls is built on the hillside beside "There are 3 big hotels in Hong-000 glasses of a vile, spirituous liquor the fishing port.

kong, the Metropole being the most known in the country by the name of The modern city is spread around popular, though the other 2 have redko, the commercial harbour, Hongkong also a high class clientele, but there has three thousand hotels, three hun tre 2,897 other hotels. dred and fifty thousand Europeans, "These are the free hotels which one million Asiatics and from twenty the police control from time to time thousand to thirty thousand Amer) only. cans and Australians.

we may interest 20m 1050 ws: according to statistics published Basket....The Boswell Sisters, Scotland reckons only Ireland only 1,900. In France there are officially to-day.

1937.

7.33 Musical Comedy Selections. "Out of the Bottle" (Ellis) and

"Tell Her the Truth" (Tunbridge) Small Hotel ("On Your Tee2"). Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon; "The Cat and The Fiddle-Selection ....

..New Mayfair Orchestra; There's a

70,000 Jown, of whom 40,000 Are in

Seventy-five per cent, of the emi- Paris. In the British colonies there "But these live not on exportation, "In fact the police never control are something less than 20,000 Jewn grants were Jews. The number of nor on any productive work, but them as they are too busy trying to the total number of Jews throughout emigrants to the United Stat 12,751

the world is between eight and ten creased from 8,945 in 1937 to have created a mixture of occupa arrest murderero.

millor. Jews are found in large num-just year. The emigration to South tion which is unique in the world.

"The 3 main hotels have rooms bers along the northern coasts of America showed an even bigger re- "In Hongkong, people live clusively by trade and on that awith safes and their clients are in- Afrien, as well as in Abyssinia. count there is not an empty hour instructed-to-put everything they have America there are 600,000 Jews, and lative increase, since the 1936 figure New Mayfulr Orchestra; "C. B. Coch- Jews are dwelling in Mexico and fajor 0.335~compares-with-only-3,252 ron's 1030 Vocal Gems..... in these unfes.

Light Opera that city of wonders.

B.00. Time, Weather and An- "No insurance companies Insure almost every State of America. There in

The United States look in 02 per "A complete anarchy exists in against theft and burglary in Hong- are supposed to be from 40,000 to 50,000)

of the German-Jewish nouncements. organisation of trade.

Kannates and a like number in India. "One can almost say that there hong. Their risk ceases on arrival ews in Persia, 10,000 to 15,000 in the cent. are only two kinds of citizens in of the steamer in port.

About forty thousand Jews were transmigrants, while South America- Hongkong who have a steady oc-

"In every room of the hotels there furred upon the annexation of the pro- in particular the Argentina, Chile

29 per cent G00,000 Trans-Ocean. cupation. The Policeman and the are notices Beware of Flekpockets' vinces of the German Empire, among and Uruguay took

which also give recommendations whose 50,000,000 inhabitants against thefts which are daily oc- belong to this remarkable race. I the

United Kingdom there are about on curences in Hongkong.

hundred thousand Jown, of whom soven- Lenths are in London, ie greater part of the remainder being in Manchester. Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham.

25 YEARS AGO

Station Master.

"The modern city which is around the central square is built of blocks of buildings looking night and day like an anthili.

Everybody Rushes

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April 4, 1014.

U.S.

70 Per Cent. Thieves "Hongkong Is the most dishonest town in the world.

"The head of the police in Hong- "During the day everybody rushes kong in Mr. E. R. G. (the name

It is understood that the King has about closing a few deals and going mentioned in the article is unknown requested Sir John Anderson, the Per to the banks (Hongkong is the city in the Far East which has the most to us.-Ed.) who told me There are manent Under-Secretary of State for banks). Then the people go and

in Hongkong only 10 per cent. to 13 the Colonies, to draw up the prelimin

ary plans for the tour of the Dominion, have tea in one of the hundreds of per cent. of honest people, 70 per which is to be made by the Prince of cent, are thieves, manlaes or klep- Wales and Prince Albert. It is expect fashionable teahouses, then return to

comprises of ed that a year will be allotted for the the hotel for a rest and then at 6 tomanlaes, the rest o'clock again rush to the club where business men of doubtful habits. As tour, which is to begin in the autumn

most incredible. In consequence only the more import-of 1015, Australle will be visited first. Muy one meets the

and thon New Zealand

Canada, July ant criminals are punished. [dividuals gathered there, no one

"The Governor of the town, Sir The trip will also probably take in the Oct. knows why or how.

United States. (The tour was cancelled Dec. Geoffry Northcote, is of the same

owing to the_grunt war--Ed.) opinion.

Jitters

his opinion it will take perhaps "In this fashion Hongkong lives: and moves, with the jitters from sun- 50 years to give Hongkong the

mentality of an average city. rise to sun-set and from sun-set to

"Meantime Hongkong lives, sings, sun-rise.

sicals, This Eden laughs and

and

Jan. Mnr.

It is stated that after the estimates Spot for the fund to be applied to the study of agroplanos and automobiles

are May azed by the Japanese Dict, the Wur of Department will Inaugurate the con- Sept.

at Toku- Dec.

Gangsters is easily the most extra-struction of 13 aeroplanes

rozawa, The number of aviation of- March

ordinary city in the Far East.

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Moy

July

COMMODITY PRICES

LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

New York, Apr. 3. New York Cotton

Opening Closing 0.04/04 0.12/12 7.82/02 7.90/00 7.62/02 7.54/54 7.50/40 7.57/56 7.61b/520 7.58 N 7.57 B 7.64 N 8.87 N

New York Rubber

16.09/80 16.00b/040 10.00/00 10.90/10.00 10.09/10 10.00/00

8.03 Terence Casey (Organ). Parade of the Wedding; Wedding

of the Parades; Waltzland-A Medley of Waltzes.

8.15 Studio-Hal Lorenzo (Plano) and Toby Gray (Accordeon).

8.45 The Comedy Harmonists Liebeslied (Kreisler); Humoreske (Dvorak); How Can It Be? (Folk Song);

Lullaby Congo

(From "Sanders of the River"); Love me a Little To-day (Brodszky).

0.00 London Relay-"Accent Rhythm".

A further selection of dance tunes, some new, some old, arranged by Kames Moody; The Singers:~Anna Meakin and Jack McCafferty; The Players: George Allsop (Guitar) and Jumes Moody (Pluno).

9.15 London Relay-The News. 9.30 London Relay-"Food for Thought."

Short talks on matters of topical interest.

9.45 Loudon Relay-Sports News and Market Report.

9.50 Maria Olszowska-Contralto. Sapphische Ode; Die Mainacht (Brahms).

9.57 Brahms-Double Concerto in A Minor Op. 102,

Played by Thibaud (Violin) and 0744/073%

Casals (Cello) with the Pablo Casals 07/074 Orchestra cond, by Alfred Cortot. 09/08

10.30 London Relay-An Organ Recital

From St. George's Chapel, Windsor by W. H. Harris with an Introductory talk by Owen Morshead, C.V.O. P.S.G., M.C., Librarian to His Majesty 49%/49% the King.

5,814,000 bushels, Chicago Corn

47/47% 47/47/ 4076/48% 48/42% 49%/49% Winniper Wheat

'60/50 80/00%

"At the Montmartre or at the Montparnasse or at the 'Gay Paris,

cera will be increased to 14, double the To-day's Sales:-710 tons. The city where the buildings GIC number at present existing.

Chicago Wheat the same crowd rushes and after

10 YEARS AGO

67%/07 having walked all day long on the next to the rickshaws, the elty

67/00% promenades, the

April 4, 1029. shou windows of where the lowest class of pickpockets

been A sensation bas

lo, Sept. caused which are equal to those of Paris are received in the best drawing! and New York, the people sull find rooms, the city where people meet Kovao, Lithuania, as a consequence of Saturday's Sales:-

xald by the police on a newspaper time to go and dance in the godowns, the must lowdown individuals. or basements of the cabarets. Most "Hongkong lives on trame bf arms, affice whore a secret meeting of the people get their money without drugs and pleasure. Ten per cent. Social-Democrat party leaders was be- much work. Hongkong had to be of the honest people of that city, are Ing held, over one hundred being taken May come, therefore, one of the most civil servants, bank clerks and hotel into, custody.

keepers. Cabarets are full up and colourful spots on the earth.

there are not enough taxis in Hong his now duiles at the Foreign Office.

... Prince George to-day begala kong. One must cable at least one

5 YEARS AGO day ahead to make reservation for

April 4, 1934. "On an average there are between rooms. Shops are full of customers. 2.000 to 3,000 arrests every week in

Franco's recent warning to Britain Tea-houses, coffee-houses, clubs. Hongkong, but never anyone arrested

le turning its attention to naval ro-! that the Hitler Government would soon armament has been quickly Justined, Many, tumeurs have been published abroad regarding the nature and, extent| of Germany's likely demands but no forth-cominst 4 Murders. A Day

official indication JA Germany expects to participate, is noxt "There are between 4 and 6 mur-year's naval conference with a view to ders per day in Hongkong but only procuring some revision of the Treaty

All Criminals

is able to do his term in prison motorbuses, airlines (of which there because for the last 5 years the are 2) are swarmed with nervous prisons of Hongkong have been full people. Hongkong lives 100 minutes

per hour. jup.

There has been no since 1933 and therefore only those with sentences of at least 4 years; fare put in prison.

more room

"As a matter of fact they all escape, so that of 10 people you meet

week. In other words people have to protect themselvez

July Sept.

May July Oct.

50%/59% 00%/00% 014/01

BRITISH ENVOY ARRIVING

Chungking, April 4.

Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, the

"The others condemned are sent 2 or 3 criminals are arrested every of Versailles and so obtain greater British Ambassador to China. bas to Singapore.

Aval security, according to to-day's decided to leave. Shanghai for Hong- Berlin newspapers, which however, pub kong en route to Chungiting on April tished denials of the report published

0, a Shanghai report received states. nhrond that Germany hre drawn up Central News, In the street at least one-third are mitted against rich foreigners. The Big Navy building programma..

52 emphasize that newspapers escaped prisoners.

would take several years to bulid up A large fleet, and that Germany has not the money for such luxurlex.

Most Popular Sport

The

"There are never any crimes com- Hongkong Chinese is very respectful of the rich foreigner. Ho steals his monty murely, but never dares to "Gambling is almost as universal touch him, but quite easily be mur- in Hongkong as in Macao, that hell ders, his brother who bas stolen more The Billlah Telly which is a shame on: humanity. than him."

11.00 Close Down.

Coming to the KING'S Frank Capra's

YOUR

production of the Pulituor Prise Flay.

CAN'T TAKE

IT WITH YOU

objects of Japanese attack in time of ARTHUR-BARRYMORE-STEWART-ARNOLD war. But, British naval opinion long

| HISCHA AKER GARN MELEER • A Colombie Pictum ;) ago Glamiszed Hongkong AL utterly

Watch For The Opening Date defence

the

outposts In Ala-Hong. Imponsible of I kong especially-will be the Immediate Japanese Navy,

egainat