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"Racket-Buster."

With Gun, Says, Japs or You!"

From DUNCAN McEACHRAN

"Daily Sketch" newsman who has flown 11,000 miles to tell the facts about the Oriant.

HONGKONG.

WAR IN THE EAST HAS REACHED STALEMATE.

HOW IT WILL END DEPENDS ON EUROPE.

That is what China's great financial wizard, Mr. T. V. Soong, told me: I had the honour to be the first foreign journalist to whom he has granted an interview since. long before the war.

He is China's "racket-buster-has smashed the graft and corruption which have prevailed in the national administration from the beginning of history.

Brother-in-law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, he is the financial "power behind the throne."

L. G. As A Lad

Was Proud Of His Currants

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He knows every move on the gigantic Asiatic draught-board. He has unified the nation's £420,000,000 financen.

CARRIES A GUN

We met in shirt-sleeves, in the Bank of Cunten. Humidity was ter- rifte and the temperature was 90

MR. LLOYD GEORGE told degrees. As Soong stripped off his Kendish fruit growers atckel. 1, noticed he wore ammuni- Folkestone recently that he grewfe is like that, if you're a blg Hon-belt, holster and tonded revolver; black currants before most of noise in China, then were born,

I quickly realised his amazing

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH '

Princess Margaret Rose, strayed from her parents, the King and Queen, at agricultural show in Windsor Great Park. When found, she was making friends with veteran mine ponies.

Blindfolded Man

Leads Town A Dance

He was opening the soft frait Oriental blend of charm and brutal 667THERE'S a blindfolded man to see you, Sir,” Mr. J. Garland, manager of a Southport hotel, was told

section at the County Agricultural | dreciness. So I asked him a point- Show in which he has for Jong been blank question; a successful exhibitor.

He recalled that as a village lad in Wales he had in look after the garden and went ou

"I was especially proud of my blackcurrants but if anyone had told me then that the day would come when I would win a challenge cup for blackcurrants in the Garden of

"When w how?”

The war end, and recently,

Into his office walked Mr.| He gazet

inscrutably Oswald Rae, a bit bruised and through lis thick, horn-rimmed

two minutes without bumped, with eyes bandaged. ses for speaking a word. I began to feel

uncomfortable.

COUNTER-QUESTION

answer that

Then he said: "I'll when you tell me if there's going to be a European war, and when China can hold out against the Japanese invader indefinitely.

England I would Souper bave' be- lieved that one day I would be Prime Minister of England."

Urging the

need for intensified food production Mr. Lloyd George said that in the Great War the Ger-

"The position is stalemate. There mans did not realise until 1917 that the submarine was such a potent) is no more chance of Japan advaŋe- weapon for destruction.

ing further than of China driving Had they done

Japanese varter By the 24

single-handed. When Europe has might have slarved this cotmiry.

settled its own To-day we were facing a world peace problem, the Western peoples where there was every kind of peril will have to turn their attention to

in the air and under the waters; Japan's aim to sweep thens right which surrounded our island, and we out of the Far East.

could not assure ourselves that i

under those

have the same

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conditions we would advantages and the same good fortune of being able to pull through.

The Duke of Kent visitetl show during the day.

IF JAPS. WIN-

Followed by a huge crowd, he had made his unsering, way through! | several streets,

He had walked kito lamp-posts

-and stationary cars, but he found the

hotel unaited,

WAS A

Mr. H. W. Barber, a town official, had given him it sealed packag. contaming six unaddressed, scuted envelopes. In one of them note autre sed to Mr. Garland.

Mr. Rae apparently has a kunch of seeing through sealed packages and sealed envelopes.

He wasn't the only pensen, doing cdd things in Southport that day. IN another part of the town a 27-year-old Indian named Lenz was being buried in nearly

"It is a strange thought that the deny of the Orient will not be de-3ft. of sand. elded ber but in the countries of Europe.

"If the democracies are victorious and I think they must be, whether there is war of not Japan

Doctors To Advise withdraw in the face of the terrine

F.A. On Glands

T the request of the Football

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opposition which will have moved East against her.

"Then Jupan's dream of a great Asiatic empire will have perished for all time.

"But the Tokyo militarists have

tee is being appointed by the their way, there will not be an Inch

mittee or the Orient for Westerners. British Medical Association to "And that includes Germany-In investigate the effects of gland spite of the Anti-Comintern Pact treatment on professional foot- and the rest of it. For the Axis ballers.

turns only one way in the Far East. The new suggestion that ultimate be the outcome of the prace may

Several leading professional clubs have adopted the treatment

10 Tientsin-Tokyo talks, beginning to- "ginger up" their players. Among them were the last F.A. Cup Bnalists, morrow is, to my mind, ridiculous. Portsmouth and Wanderers.

"Japan is in the grip of her Wolverhampton militarist caste. They are unable to The investigations, which will win any more spectacular victories probably occupy several months, our country. may not be Anished by the end of next season.

Footballers who have undergone treatment will probably be examined and clinical tests made.

"The making good by the glands of any deficiency of any particular substance is a recognised part of medien practice," a BM.A. ofclol said.

"But to keep up their prestige and prove

their own people low

to

"The Tientsin trouble cannot be

For 13 minutes he stayed underground, with only a silk! covering over his bend body.

and

He was rather annoyed because the authorities refused to let Elm half an hour. stay in his sandy grave for at least

When they dug him up he seemned quite all right,

SOUTHPORT bathers gasped as they saw Miss Esine Levante, aged 17, jump into the bathing pool handcuffed

JUDGE "CONVICTS

THE JURY"

Mr. Justice Stablo at Man- chester Assizes found a jury guilty of "not listening to my summing-up with due

care,"

A man was charged with manslaughter after a road ac- cident. The jury's verdict was: Not guilty of slaughter, not guilty of danger- ous driving but guilty of driv- ing without due caro,

man-

You were not asked to say whether you thought the ac- cused was guilty of driving

without duc care," said the Judge. "Your verdict is one of not guilty of anything."

The man was discharged.

with chains round her neck and legs.

Within 13 seconds she came to the surface with hands free, holding her shackles.

August 14, 1939. EMPIRE NEWS

AUTUMN ELECTION FOR AUSTRALIA

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The hint given by Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Prime Minister, that GONDOLIERS. the Federal Government · 'will BOHEME LA. formulate a wheat policy In-August TRAVIATA, LA.

TOSCA, LA. PAGLIACCI. MIKADO.

in time to give people a chance to accept or reject it is interpreted in Canberra as an indication that the Ministry is planning a general elec- tion in November,

The election, it is expected, will effect little change in the representa- tion of parties, but there is a strong possibility that the Country Party will lose a seat or two as a censure for its failure to join the Menzies Government. Suen A reduction in strength might hasten a coalition.

The Ministry will reek only con- firmation of its mandate at the last elections to go ahead with defence in support of Britain.

National Register Boycolt-The Council of Trade Unions to-day, Ignoring Federal and State Socialist political leaders' warnings, refused to withdraw the plan to boycott the national register. A conference of key unions Is even considering » motion in favour of a general strike if unionists are punished for not Alling up the register cards,

German Consul Rebuked. Sir Henry Gullet, the Commonwealth Minister for External Affairs, has rebuked in strong terms the acting German Consul, Herr Seger, for a reference to the Danzig question mude by the first secretory to the German Consulate Melbourne when he said. "Britain is putting her finger into a pie which does not concern her."

NEW ZEALAND..

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COST OF UNEMPLOYED

RELIEF

AUCKLAND. Referring to the numbers cm- ployed under the relict scheme, the New Zealand "Herald" states that the Agures are apparently unchanged, despite the inauguration of лде benefit and also industrial absorp tion. The Government faces the problem of providing a huge weekly rellef wages bli

Britain's Import Policy.-Mr. Mar- tin, New Zealand Minister of Agriculture, staled recently that he was "rather apprehensive with re- Hard to Britain's restrictive import

policy and the increased use of wool substitutes. The average nutrition level in Britain, particularly with re- gard to meats and fats, was far be- low the best. He was convinerd that any policy restricting imports must be transitory. GIBRALTAR

ÁRRIVAL OF NEW GOVERNOR

GIBRALTAR.

Lt.-Gen. Sir Clive Liddell, the successor of Gen. Sir Edmund Iron- side ns Governor of Gibraltar,

It was certainly a crazy day for Southport, but don't let these occurrived recently from England. rences put you off the town.

The oaths of allegiance were ad- Magicians happened to be holding the presence of the principal naval, The International Brotherhood of ministered at Government House in and its convention there. That's all. military and colonial officials and the consults. Representative bodies pre- sented the customary addresses of welcome.

He Went for a Holiday, Returns a Film Star

| JAMAICA

WORKERS' REGISTER

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KINGSTON. In an effort to end the continued powerful they are, the rulers of Harry Douglas Taylor used to sing, | fellow-directors and told them that trouble on Kingston waterfront, due Japan are not afraid of annoying in his pleasant baritone, in the little he was going to resign to seek histo

the rivalry between the Britain. Theirs is a desperate game. Methodist chapel in Driffield. East fortune on the stage.

Service men's and other unlons, the Yorks, Now the world will hear him He studied under Sir Henry Wood, Labour Adviser, Mr. F. A. Norman, solved until Europe's home problems for he has just been given the lend then got a small part in London in of the British Ministry of Labour, are resolved.

in Hollywood's new version of "The Ivor Novello's "Crest of the Wave," has suggested the setting up of o Desert Song."|

To gain experience Harry decided register of waterfront workers who work on the timber merchant. They gave him a to Hollywood. And there he found directorship in the family business, success,

The scheme is approved by the But his Mrs, Taylor said that she expected | shipping componics and the labour und later he took charge. heart was never in his work.

her "star overnight" husband home unions, Detalls are to be worked Faur years ago ha called his shortly.

cut shortly.

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"Meanwhile China holds the fort, nwalts calmly the final reckoning. The real question on which the

"But we will fight on-we ате the end. Association's opinion has been sought determined to resist to

like Now to dictate is the advisability of administering Tokyo would gland treatment to a collection of peace terms. But China will never presumably healthy and 1 young accept them." men."

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Sent Chocolates To Injured Girl

An Injured cycilst was carried into court when Richard St. George Wil- cock, of Ashley Gardens, London, a former undergraduote, was at Com- bridge recently fined £10 for driv- ing a car

In dangerous manner. He was also ordered to pay wit- nesses' fees and bla licence was sub- pended for six months.

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Wilcock, who pleaded not guilty, said he skidded on a bend and in trying to avoid a crash his car came into collision with a cyclist.

The cyclist, Ruby Madeline Ed- wards (33), said both her wrists and one leg were broken in the accident. Wilcock sent her chocolates and

KING'S Theatre flowers when she was in hospital,

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SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA AND SINGAPORE Cable Address: Swanstock.

The

Hongkong Telegraph

NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTO

COMPETITION

HOTOGRAPHIC

June-September, 1939

$250

CASH

PRIZES

$250

(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")'

TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250

(Donated by ILFORD; Ltd., ~London)

SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW

CLOSING DATE 'G TIME:

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

- Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures.

1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10,

-SECTION TWO:-

General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies,

1st, $30.

2nd. $15. 3rd, $10 SECTION FOUR: -Still-Lifo-ant Table-Top Studiés. 1st..$30. 2nd. 315. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st. $16,2nd, $10, frd. $5.

RULES

The folowing Rules will govern the Competition:

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1-The Competition is confined ex- clusively to amateur photo. graphers

2-No employee or member of any Arm in the photographic trade fa permitted to compete.

3. The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo. graphs in

Section. Each cash entry must be accompanied by a form which will bo publinked during the period of the Com- petition, and which must to pasted on back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

5. All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong.. Photographs which Have been stready entered in other Competitions are ineligible.

Ne responsibility will be necepled for non-delivery of loss of, or damage to entries.

T--All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and mast

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY

be mounted Coloured

photos Araphs are Ineligible. 8.-Pictures rubrillled in sepia tones should be accompanied by a `smaller print in black and white. 9.-No picture to entered in more

than one Section.

10-Mountain ba only white of

cream, and except In the Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X1 10x23.

11. No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition,

12 Entries In the Children's Section must bear the entrant's' name, agu and address on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent,

13-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telepraph and the South China Morning Pori are not permitted to compete. 14-The decisions of the Judges shall

De Qual

18-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph ofices within seven days.

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

DATE

ENTRY FORM

Please use block letters and pasta thie on back of each Entry. I entered la Children's Section, parant please coun- tended here.