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TENEDOS OFFICER'S "REGRETS"

Landing Of British

Sailors At Swatow

ALMOST STARTLING in its abruptness, a communique was issued by the British naval au- thorities in Hongkong this morn- ing in the following terms:

n

"The Commanding Officer of tho Briliah destroyer and the Brish

Consul at Swatow have expressed their regret that the Incident on Monday arose out of the presence of British kallors."

The communique refers to the In- cident in Swatow on Monday, when nding party was sent ashore from Tenixlos at the request of the British Consul, Mr. H. D. Brynu, to protect the British consulate and Brilish subject.

The appeal for naval ussistorice be- came necessary when a small mob of Chinese demonstrators threatened the British Consulate and Club.

Sticks And Stones

R

Sticks and stones were thrown by the mob and during the demonstra- Won, one of the demonstrators, Chinese stult-holder, was injured by A compatriot.

been emphasised that the

It

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landing party Irom H.MLS.

Tenedos went ashore, and at no time did

Incident any

involving occur British sallors.

WAN unarmed when

The expressions of regret were tendered to the Japanese Consul, Mr. Takal, by Lt. Cmdr. Burty, Com- manding Omeer of LMS. Tenedo, and by Mr. Bryan, the Consul.

It is not stated whether the Japon- ese ometals have accepted the re- Krela,

Japanese Snub

An carler message from the "Dome!" News Agency stated that a request by the British Consul in Swalow for a modlileation of the Japanese demands regarding Mon- day's Incident had been fatly re- Jected by the Japanese authorities.

The rejection was made by the Japanese Consul, Mr. Takai.

Subsequent efforts by the British Consul to approach the Japanese Karrison commanders were frulliess, the military officials refusing even to see the British offcial,

In his interview with the Japanese Consul, Mr.

Mr. Bryan was accompanied by Lt. Cmdr. Burry, of LMS. Tenedos, and Capt. H, Hicking, of H.MS. Duncan.

ile requested that the Japanese demands regarding Monday's incident be modified by the withdrawal of the demand that the British authorities acknowledge that sailors from HMS. Tenedos were involved,

The request was rejected.

CENSORED

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 10, 1939.

Big Order From China Bank Fulfilled

AT HOME COLONY FIRM PRINTS

English News-Stands Don't Want "Time"

TIME

The Weekly Newanugatine

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Aug, 9 (UP),~~~Tho American news magazine "Time" has been unofficially banned from Britain's book-sialis..

MILLIONS of DOLLARS

MILLIONS Of bank-notes, ranging in value from sub- sidiary notes of ten-cent denomination to notes valued at $10, have been printed in Hongkong during the past seven months, enquiries by. the "Telegraph" reveal.

The bank-notes were printed on behalf of the Central Bank of China by the Chung Hwa Book Company, one of the biggest printing establishments in the Far East.

With the completion of the con- tract for printing the bank-notes, the company has discharged 1,100 workers employed in the Note Printing De- partment,

of the

The Company, however, will re- its printing works at Mataukok, open its Kowloon, as soon as the Note Print ing Department is finally closed down, An official of the Company refused Live to disclose the total value bank notes printed under the con- but tract with the Central Bank, Arents'

of ten were subsidiary

and The remaining twenty cents value. ten per cent. are of one dollar, vo dollar and ten dollar denomination.

The action has been taken by the Wholesale News Federation, which has announced that it will refuse to handle tho magazine.

It is believed here that this is the beginning of an unaletal

tion of foreign publica-

..It is

is reported that the Federa- tion is concerned over the free- dom with which many foreign Publications crittelse British Institutions and personalities,

Prior to the Abdication Crisis several Issues of "Time" had pages deleted by the Federation, the deletions being references to Mrs. Ernest Simpson and King Edward VIII,

LADY LOST ON CORFU

Passenger Disappears Between H.K. & S'pore

revealed that scent. of the notes

2,000 Sheets Daily

"All the subsidiary notes were printed by hand presses, and the; dollar-notes were printed by rotary presses," said the spokesman.

"The company has 65 hand pressef with An "average total printing capacity of 2,000 sheets daily. Each shuel consist of a number of notes."

As They See

· It Abroad

"Well, what about that entry Into Danzig?" "Oh,

wondering they're whether to do the goose step or the hesitation waltz."

["L'Euvro," Paris

ordered by the Central Bank of China,

by the company. It is most certain that there will be no new demand for note printing for a long time.

Japanese Frustrated

"We

have experienced great dificulties. In transporting banknoten to the Interior, "All important ports have been eillier occupied

or blockaded by the enemy, who keep an alert watch on the transportation of banknotes from the Printing Works in Kowloon to Chungking in

heart of the interior."

The

The spokesman claimed that the company's trentiment of its employees In the Note Printing Department was among the best in the same industry in Hongkong,

"I don't see why they should have made #0 much trouble during the past two years," pulch he, referring to the strikes staged by the employees n the past months and the present protest against the dismissals,

"I would like the public Hongkong to judge if the treatment. is fair or nat.

of

"Firstly, the work was not heavy, We had nine workers to each hand press. They worked nine hours a day and six days a week, and had 12 holldays a year in addition to Sundays. Each employee is entitled to a month's leave every two years, and the company paid for transporto- tion if he was a Shanghai man. Free medical service was provided by the company.

the

his

Generous Allowances

"As to wages, the average wage Telegram To Chungking

was $25, in among the workmen On Monday when the Printing addition to $7.50 boarding allowance Works were closed, the discharged and $3 lodging allowance. Besides employees sent a telegram to the wages and allowances, the company Questioned regarding the mass dis- Chinese Government in Chungking, paid a bonus to the employees, missal of employees including 200 asking if the Chung Hwa Printing average amount for each worker women, the spokesman replied: "The Works had printed all the notes being more or less equivalent to discharge of

employees is ordered by the Bank. 1,100

or her wage. It is estimated that primarily due to the completion of The Compaar's spokesman em- from January to June this year the the printing of the notes ordered, phatically denied the allegation. The company had paid in bonus the sum No new contract has been received reason for the mass discharge, he of $108,000 to about 600 hand press from the Cedral Bank of China.” Į sold,' was simple and just, as the workers.

However, the dismissed employees ompany has no more work to be "O the 1,100 workers dismissed, allege that the reason given above is done in the Note Printing Deport- 800 are Shanghal employees and 300 only a pretext, and demand "a sub-ment,"

are local workers. The company is stantial documentary proof" of the "The Central Bank of China has paying the discharged Shanghal em- completion of the printing of notes already a big reserve of notes printed ployees their wages up to the end

of August, two months' extra pay- ment, a bonus and $20 each for

"NO, NO NANETTE” WILL transportation back to Shanghai. To

SHANGHAI, Aug. 10 (Reu BE PRODUCED BY H. P. S.

ter)-A wireless message has been received in Shanghai re- porting, that an Englishwoman, Miss Hilda Chester, is missing' from the P. and O. Corfu which left Shanghai for England on

2,000,000 Cigarettes August 1.

Destroyed

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Aug. 9 (Reuter).—The report

Christchurch fron

(New Zealand) aftributing the destruction of

2,000,000

English cigarettes to the N. 2. import regulations, is with- out foundation, according to the net- ing Minister for Customs, who states that the elgarettes were a slow sell- ing line, and the importer decided

New

that

it was not worth while paying duty on the residue of his stock.

Accordingly he had it destroyed. The situation arose long before the import regulations were heard of, and

the cigarettes had been in bond for four years, and had Krently

deteriorated.

PROPAGANDA IN FRANCE

PARIS, Aug. 9 (Reuter).— Further provisions for dealing with foreign propaganda ure published in the official journal to-day.

All persons receiving directly or Indirectly funds from foreign sources as payment for publlelty work in France, must make a declaration to the Government, revealing the org- anization for which they are workling, country of origin, payments received, and the place and date of such pay- ments.

The regulations will be enforced immediately.

Miss Chester is aged 30 and was a sister in the Shanghai Municipal Council's isolation spital, which she joined five years ago on arrival in Shunghai from England.

She is on her Brst home leave,

for Liverpool, where her sister

disappeared from the Corfu on

August 6.

Friends in Chengtu and Shanghai report that she was very cheerful on leaving and quote her as saying she was looking forward to being England again.

in

They Don't Want The

League Presidency

BELGRADE,

Aug. 0 (Trans- Ocean).-Political quarters to-day confirmed that Yugo-Slavia has declined the presidency of the League Council which would have fallen to her this autumn.

THE HONGKONG Philharmonic Society has decided to produce the well-known musical comedy “No, No Nanette" as its next offering.

The work, will be produced at tho Queen's Theatre on December 13-16 inclusive. Rehearsals will commence at the beginning of next month.

The production will be in the cap- able hands of Mr. W. Robertson, who has been connected with many Philharmonic successes, in the past. Musical Direction will be in the equally capable hands of Surg. Capt. G. V. Hobbs, R.N.

The

the Philharmonic Society has some Telegraph" is informed that

Vacancies

les for the dancing sequences. and requests any Indies or gentlemen interested to communicate with the Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. M. Cockle, of 13. Chatham Road.

"No, No Nanette" has been a most

successful musical comedy, and still enjoys an

an enormous voie in amateur circles at home. The continued op-

of this very popular work is in

over 40 amateur societies in Britain

produced it.

peal of by the fact that in 1938 alone.

Great!

The work was first produced under the direction of Messrs. Clayton and Waller at the Palace Theatre, London, in 1925. The original cast included The decision does not come as n

such well-known artists as Binnie surprise in view of the disinclination, Hale, Vera Pearce, George Grossmith, watch has been noticed here during Joseph Coyne and Seymour Beard. the last few months, to take further active participation in the League,

Mexican Proposals

WASHINGTON, Aug. ◊ (Reuter). The Mexican Government's new pro- posals for settling the oil expropri- lion dispute will involve vesting in a neutral third party of the balance of power over the oil properties, ac- cording to well-informed circles here.

ALBUM SERIES OF H.M.V. RECORDS.

BEETHOVEN. Emperor Concerto. (Schnabel.)

CHOPIN. DVORAK, GRIEG.

Oil Tanks Not A Danger

A.P.C. Official's Statement

CURRENCY SITUATION

Chungking Official Arrives in Colony

Mr. Isu K'an, Administrative Vice-Minister of Finance of the Chinese Government, has arrived

the discharged local employees the company is

is paying wages up to August 15, a bonus and one month's extra payment.

"We keep their addresses on file. If the Note Printing Department is engaged to print more banknotes in future they will be re-employed.

"I think the company has done everything possible for the benefit of the discharged employees.

"No workers in the Book Printing Department have been dismissed at present. However, the high cost of production in Hongkong, the abnor- mal exchage rate and the unpreced- ented difficulties In transportation have very deterrent effects on the business of the department. A prim- ary school text books that costs 10 cents in Hongkong has to be sold at

70 cents Chinese National Currency in the interior!

"There is no intention at present in Hongkong from Chungking, to move the Printing Works to Kun- it is learned from Chinese bing

or Rangoon, but suggestions are being discussed to establish more branches inland." concluded the

Bources.

Nehru's Visit

It is understood that Mr. Hsu's spokesman. conhection with a new effort by the on to the Colony is primarily in Chinese Government to stabilise the exchange rate of National Currency Two plans for the stabilisation of the exchange rate und for the strengthening of the central financial machinery are reported to have been mapped out by the Chunghting thorities.

au-

Regulations are expected to be officially announced shortly.

Car Driver's

Offences

To China Famed Indian To Be Feted

CHUNGKING, Aug, 10 (Central). -Preparations for welcoming Pandit Jewaharlal Nehru, lender of the Indian Nationalist Movement, on his forthcoming visit to China are in full swing.

Sequel To Accident The preparatory committee formed

jointly by the Chinese People's For- Luk Chon, 20, licensed driver of a eign Relations Association, the private car was charged on three Ching League of Nations' Union, the counts when he appeard before Mr. National Asociation for the Promo- E. Himsworth at the Kowloon lon of New Life Movement, the Magistracy this morning..

China Branch of the International

The charges were (a), failing to Peace Campaign and other organisa- keep left of Ma Thu Wai Road on tons, are maintaining dally omer Apprehension of residents living in August 2, (b) falling to report that hours. the Causeway Bay area, where the he

knocked had

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"Unless you include a hrad like a rag football dredged from a canal and a "tarte in my mouth lika smoke in a

Our Paris repro railway tunnel. sentative entertained me rather "lay ishly last night!"

"Thero la no duty, Sis, on hangovan obtained abroad."

"I wish there was. I'd refuse to pay and then you'd have to confiscate it?"

"I'm sorry we can't help you, Sir. But might I suggest in future the advantages of a long glass of Rose's Lime Juice to wind up late nights? Road' possesses therapeutle pro perties which neutralled the — et ——— morning after."

**This Rowe's really kills off" hang. overs? Have they ary in the Station

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Into any of the tanks would have no Luk admitted the charges and was effect at all, while strong retaining fined $20 on the first charge, $30 on 00.) walls have been built for cach tank, the second, and $2 on the third,

ensuring that all overflowing from 200,) damaged tank would still remain

inside the retaining walls.

Suspects Deported

LONDON, Aug. 9 (Reuter).----Two Birmingham I.R.A. suspects, aged 18 and 21 respectively, have been deport- ed from Liverpool.

It was also emphasised that in the event of an attack on the Colony there oil tanks would be adequately pro- tested by anti-aircraft guns that it would not be an easy matter to make a direct hit on the tanks.

When the one bound for Dublin There are large supplies of oll boarded the ship, ateerage passengers stored in the Colony and no fear need greeted him with shouts of "Up be entertained of a shortage,

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