1939-04-04 — Page 27

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 4, 1939.

BALANCE OF POWER

FLOWER COLORS &

JAPAN MAY HONG-KONG Constmuse Pretty enough to Pock!

oft où l'on

HOLD KEY out on trafique, où l'on vole,

WASHINGTON, Apr. 3.—Diplomatic quar- ters in Washington express the opinion that Japan holds the key to the world's future as a

ou con tue

et dont les prisons sont pleines...

A REPRODUCTION OF THE HEADING IN "HEBDO"“

result of the rift between Germany and Britain. Paris Magazines Grotesque Libel

Latest developments are diately change her policy towards Great Britain, declares the "Nichi likely to precipitate a new Nicht Shimbun," which Is the balance of power in which Japanese army's mouthpiece. the United States will be importuned to join.

Japan, with her armies schooled in war and her naval construction pro-

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The newspaper adds: "Japan must now. watch Europe tou, und events may, compel hor to strengthen the anti-Comintern, Pact, whether vast

the

On Hongkong And Our People

Governments like it or not."-Renter, prisons aro full up.”

gramme, may be forced to New President choose between allegiance to the Rome-Berlin axis and diplomatic independence.

Of Turkey

"Hongkong-whore they laugh, trade, steal and kill, and where the

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.

It alleges that Hongkong has 3,000 hotels, and the only people who have a steady trade are the policemen and the Station-Master!

MILITARY AXIŞ

Istanbul, Apr. 3. Observers here believe that The election of Ismet Inonu as Japan's catry into the Rome- President of the Turkish Republic was to

confirmed when the sixth Grand Berlin military axis would pro- National Assembly met in Ankara 10-much work. duce a co-ordination so powerful | day. that most other countries would be constrained towards a common diplomatic purpose for their own safety.

If Japan Imains Independent inilltarily, she might be able to present a swift Trystallisation of the two great blocs.

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

Most Hongkong people, he claims, gets their money without On an average there are between 2,000 and 3,000 arrests formally resigned, but was at once in prison because for the last five years the prisons have been Refik Saydam and his Government every week, but "never anyone arrested is able to do his term reappointed to office by the Pre-full up.

sident. However, two new Minils- trics were created,

The Ministry of

separated from the Ministry.

Traffic was

for

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

in the street at least one-third are escaped prisoners.

Most Popular Sport "Gambling is almost as universal in Hongkong as in Macao, that hell city which is a shanie on humanity. kong is stealing. People steal a

The most popular sport in Honk-

little everywhere.

"One can casily imagine that Hongkong is heaven to thieves when

on murderers, for whom there is tot one realises that the Judges have only just got time to pass sentence

even room in the prisons.

"There is no Insiune for the past 5 years where a man who wears his (watch and chain on his waistcoat has not had his packet pleked at least once,

There are 3 big hotels in Hong-

"The most popular sport in Hongkong is stealing." Below we give a translation of the article in full: Publie Works, the new Ministry being taken over by the present "One Chinese City (Chinese Chicago with an addition of a kong, the Metropole being the most Labour Minister, All Chetinkaya, General All Fund was then appointed in name only because it is a small New York. new Minister of Labour,

British Possession) centralises

Unfottered Role Some experts hold the belief that Japan strong enough to play an unfettered role in the world of polities, bargaining not only for her

A separate Ministry of Commerce at the moment the activity of own national advantage but conceives been created as complement of the Chinese Empire. ably for restored order in the Far the Ministry of Economics-Trans- East,

Ocean.

The United States obvious interest

In Japan's alignment or termin-1

ment in the Axis would be

ed by the degree to which Japan might become a party to world-wide "power politics" and the effect of her pusition on the control of the Pacifle.

-United Press.

"Watch Europe",

Tokyo, Ápr. 4. Japan must completely and imme-

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"That city, a compound of races, of fight and of trade, this asiatic Chiengo, is Hongkong.

"Until recently Shanghai was more important than Hongkong, BERLIN. Apr. 3.-Herr Hitler's 50th birthday on April 20 but since a few months the will be celebrated with great national British port of the 'Rising Sun': festivities, the central feature of has become the great city of the which will be a military parade on Yellow Continent. scale far greater than ever witnessed

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"Leprous Walls"

"The Old City with its leprous walls is built on the hillside beside the fishing port.

han turen thousand hotels, three hun-

popular, though the other 2 have also a high class ellentele, but there

2,997 other hotels. the police control from time to time "These are the Tree' hotels which

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"The modern city is spread around In fact the police never control the commercial harbour. Hongkong them as they are too busy trying to dred and afty thousand Europeans, arrest murderers. one million Asiaties and from twenty with safes and their ellents are in-

have "The 3 muin hotels thousand to thirty thousand Ameri-structed to pat everything they have cans and Australians.

"But these live not on exportation, in these safes.

"No Insurance companies Insure nor un any productive work, but have created a mixture of occupo-kong. Their risk ecases on arrival against theft and burglary in Hong- tion which is unique in the world.

"In Hongkong, people live, ex-of the steamer in port.

"In every clusively by trade and on that ne-!

Beware of Pickpockets' which also give recommendations are daily de- against thefts which eurences In Hongkong.

count there is not all empty hour in are notice room of the hotels there

that city of wonders.

"A complete unarchy exists in the organisation of trade.

"One can almost say that there are only, two kinds of citizens in Ilongkong who have a steady oc- cupation. The Policeman and the Station Master.

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

Everybody Rushes

"During the day everybody rustics about closing a few deals and going to the banks (Hongkong is the city in the Far East which has the most Banks). Then the people go and have tea in one of the hundreds of fashionable teahouses, then return to the hotel for a rest and then-at-0. o'clock again rush to the club where one meets the most Incredible in- dividuals gathered there, no onc knows why or how,

Jitters

"In his fashion Hongkong ver and moves with the Jitters from sun- rise to sun-set and from sun-set to sun-rise.

"At the 'Montmartre' or at the 'Montparnasse or at the 'Gay Paris,' the same crowd rusher and after having walked all day long on the promenades, the shop windows of which are equal to those of Paris and New York, the people still And time to go und dance in the godowns, or basements of the cabarets. Most people get their money without much work. Hongkong had to be- comic, therefore, onc of the most colourful spots on the earth.

All Criminals

"On an average there are between 2,000 to 3,000 arrests every week In Hongkong, but never anyone arrested is able to do his term in prison because for the last 5 years the prisons of Hongkong have been full up.

"There has been no more room since 1933 and therefore only those with sentences of nt least 4 years are put in prison.

"The others condemned are.sent to Singapore.

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

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

The head of the police la Hong-

mentioned in the article is unknown kong Is 'Mr. E. R. G' (the name

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British Ambassador to China, has Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, the

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