Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1932, Page 3

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Utdlities Holdings Heavy. Power Co., which built the telephone system and extended public hout the city of 3,100,000 per- an oil firms have tre- ymendous bunkerages at Shanghai and Arnold said published pamphlet, a Through American ld id Snanghai occu- strategic position, eco- It is situated on in which within an e of the State of Illinois estimated population of 800 persons to the square W s, Arn 5 the most ally, in_China Yangtze Delta is an Shanghai is China’s commercial and dustrial capital. Fifty-one per cent of ] imports Into China were 'anded at | Shangnai last year and 35 per cent of 1 exports passed out through that port 1ts trade amounts to more than $1,000,- 000,000 a year, according to Arnold's estimate Many Forcigners There commercial attache reported lst Shanghal’s foreign population of 25000 Russians, 25,00) Jap- British, 5000 Americans sermans, 1,500 French and 2,000 r national 19 consulates, each vith its courts for the trial of disputes own naticrals There and about 2,060 foreign busi- ‘The th points out 1 his pamphlet i are larg. ican Club, w y downtow buil American C a country club, where 600 children of Americ 1ess men and missionarie b ated from kindergarten to col re also an Aincrican an Americ: the last year ona U States Government huilding to hous departments and will cost $1,000,000 TWO INVADING PLANES DOWNED, CHINESE SAY Both Craft Said to Have Been De- stroyed by Fire After Crashes at Shanghai. o to The Star HANGHAL January 29.—Chil claim to have brought nese bombers flying over 1 to have been hit by hich exploded ied by the pl supposed to have Railroad Station ed fires in the debris a 12 to the same a section of the R road near Jess- field Bridge, in the western residential section, after a Chinese armored train escaped bombing at North Station The consular body here is believed to be on the point of protesting to the Japanese the use of t rnational Settlement as a base of operation Copyr 1932 The Japanese, acco ce, have tor nghai-Hangcl MISSIONARIEé ARE SAFE IN SHANGHAI, SAYS CABLE ! Presbyterian Board Receives Mes- Stating No Is Anticipated he Associated Press | NEW YORK, Januarv 29— Presby- | terian missionaries at Shanghai are safe and do not anticipate any danger, said | a cable received today by the Board of | Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America The cable was dated January 29 from Shanghai, and was signed by the Pres- byterian 'China _Council, the central agency for the board's eight missions in_China. The board has 41 missionaries at | Shanghai engaged in evangelical an educational work. sage, Danger Minstrel's Luck Turns. For eight months a country school- | master, now popularly known as Jimmy | Kennedy, tramped from one publisher to another in London trying to sell some of the 25 songs he had written but failed. One day he met a well known composer, who gave him $10 for a song. That song sold more than phonograph records, but $10| he ever got. Then his luck turned and in the last year he has had 188 phonograph recordings and a sale| of a million records Estimate Is Set at $135,-; investments in Shanghal | were estimated today by Commerce De- | The heaviest investors in Shanghai | | are the International Telephone & Tel- | egrah Co. and the American & Foreign | utilities | | tionsare con nd iTON, D. C.,: FRIDA Y. Portion of “International Section” { the Shanghai International Settlement by the edge of the Whangpoo River. SHANGHAI THREE CITIES IN ONE. WITH NATIVE SECTION DIVIDED America Among 20 Nations, Including Japan, Having Trade and Extra- territorial Rights. Japanese troops have raise the question know the Chinese hanghai? The in three divi- the Inter ¥ and the Prench C separately gove! i further sub some distance from antao and t! latter ac Repc entered hai who of the first C: West Georgraphic Society hants who moved in dur- ext few years obtained a c on to manage municipal affairs r settlement Like Foreign Concessions. and American 1S ding with the today about Japanese. ial rights The ent urban group—C! International, and French—that the name ‘Shanghai’ has an estimated of 1540000. By far the ¥ but the concen- larger part - the narrow- tratio streeted nativ the foreigners sions that Chin parts. The Inter rite resi water higt Cana province of Kiangsu. the sopulated political unit in This strategic situation has a great commercial em has become as well one of ese Industrial centers. porium and 1 the greatest C Big Ships Cannot Reach It. “In a sense. however, tne cit of-the-way is not directly Yangtze a tributary, the Hwangpu from the great stream. ocean steamers cannot asc ciiyv but must anchor _in and tranship passe tenders cannot cross ruisers and destras is out- cn the but on duty off ths he city from Woos gtze River. the s and anchored ships ne more numerous as The hum and n “Approac] its port on ges, gravey of all kinds b one nears the i) PARIS.—Some queer things going on in the world if you just happened to have been there and seen ‘em. Japanese warships _have bombarded China _ because China insists on bogcotting Jap- anese goods. ngland puts 500 more of Gandhi's bunch in jail because they boycott and = picket against English goods. Here you have China and India, who consti- tute five-eighths of the world's popu- lation, practically at war because they can't do what they want to, yet signboards all over England say Buy British.” It's a great world even if you are just looking at it for comedy purposes They It's a simple matter to wash as easily as curtains. window shades, made of WASH— have window shades that Install du Pont TONTINE the WASHABLE, FADE- LESS, extra serviceable window shade fabric known as du Pont TONTINE. When soiled they may be taken down and scrubbed with soap and water and made to look like new. Scrub- bing doesn’t hurt them, the sun won’t fade them, they’ll outwear and outlast ordinary window shades—thereby saving you money for replacements. Factory Made at Factory Prices e SH \ [s:m 13th St. N.W. W. STOKES SAMMONS roar of factories and cotton mills belie the real atmcsphere of this metropolis of Central China. It is not until the heavy, half-sickening smell of bean-ofl. incense, opium smoke and of human beings penetrates the nostrils that the true Asiatic flavor of the city is re- the cargo lipper boats launches of huge essels from every face of the globe. Like built on piles ank sand and Huge re- rafts were buried in dations of fine laid on them ill vie with cel and Wwo on the New American Consulate. The foreign settlements are delight- v modern, with plenty of space, light air. and are as sanitary and orderly as Western cities. Mast of the impor- tant business and industrial houses are concentrated in the International Set- tlement. Nanking road has most of the shops and retail stores: Bubbling Well road is the fashionable place to live Kiukiang road is ‘the Wall street of ina.’ and the Bund is the favorite menade. In the Hongkew district ited_States is building its finest r office, to house the most im- ican Government offices has o China in the last half century as filtered in through Shanghai, es- pecially through the great printing th which have turned out tions into Chinese of the litera- u { the West. Shanghai’s many newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, greatly influence the thought of the land ‘China’s first railroad was a 12-mile stretch from Shanghai to its deep-water port 12 miles away. The imperial au- thorities later tore it up. but it planted the railroad seed, which has sprouted lustily. 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Members of Congress were for the most part non-committal today con- cerning events in Shanghai, preferring to avoid inflammatory any kind However. seemed the general to favor putting disposition through the measure proposed yesterday by Senator | Dill, Democrat, of Washington which would have banned any arms shipments to Japan or China Dill said he made the proposal “so this Government shall thereby declare to the world that we shall refuse to fur- nish fuel for this flame.” Senator Walsh, Democrat. of Mon- tana, high ranking member of the For- Relations Committee, said inform- he hoped the resolution “will be favorably acted upon promptiy.” Senator Moses of New Hampshire, also a_member of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee. observed “China looks to me like another Korea." Chairman It was recalled, however t last Fall he attacked Japan for violation of treaties. It also is known that he warred the administration of his be- lief that Japan was going into Ma churia to stay The administration, declined to listen to such a view Representative Linthicum, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, in a statement yesterday accused Japan of violating " treaty ~obligations and being unfair with this country Linthicum said “if Japan continues to disregard the wishes of other na- tions and takes possession of China her 400,000,000 inhabitants, then anything can happen. * * * “We look upon Japan as one of the big nations who would try to keep peaa: in the world. and yet they have taken Manchuria with its 30,000,000 of people and to all intents and purposes an- nexed them “Now they have taken Shanghai, the greatest and most beautiful city in the Orient, the New York of China. where American business and life are largely | represented.” Patent Attorneys in The Star Building at very reasonable rates. Apply Supt. Office. Room 610. Star Bldg. 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Under Col, Richard Hooker, the Ma- | rines have been made responsible for the entire western section of the settle- ment, which includes the chief residen- tial area were assigned is bounded on the north by winding Soochow Creek It was here in 1927 that the same Marines, shortly after they first came to | China, went into the trenches shoulder to shoulder with the crack Coldstream Guards of Great Britain As the defeated troops of Chang Tsung-Chang, Shantung war lord, poured helter-skelter toward the settle- ment the Marines on that occasion faced a difficult task when the Chinese troops harassed them with wild firing. But steadily and calmly they fought off the horde in what now is referred to as “the famous battle of Markham Road Bridge.” Hooker Reports Quiet. Today the Marines occupied the same { positions and patrolled the same streets | Col. Hooker reported that all was wel along the Marine front, and that there was no sign of Chinese troops, al*hough the battle in Chapei had been rozring away on their right front all night long The British now, as five years ago. stand on the left of the Marines. The English troops no longer are the Cold- Stream Guards. Instead, two sturdy baftalions of the Lincolns and the | Royal Scots, totaling 2,000 men, are handling the job. Seventeen hundred Frenchmen and French colonials guard the French Con- cession, 1,200 Shanghai volunteers are on duty in another section of the set- tlement and 1500 Japanese—entirely separate from the occupation force—ar protecting the northern section of the settlement. 800 Replacements Due. | Eight hundred British replacements were due to arrive today to swell th | foreign garrison to 8.400 men. It is the | task of this garrison to guard the hu dreds of millions of do worth foreign property in Shar | These troops have stoj ment into the settlement { rounded on three sides by ritory full of Ch other side by River The American | numbers 1,200 | trouble Smedley Darlingt | retired, was their com ped all move which is sur- Dies After Boxing Match ATLANTA. Ga is R. Calman of Birm: 21-year-old Emory Univer: more, died toda an interclass university last BY THE DEPA orders, stayed on the job today in pour- The district to which they | AWA# THOMPSONS DAIRY *106° PLANT RATING *HIGHEST AVERAGE FARM SCORE * HIGHEST BUTTER FAT CONTENT * HIGHEST CATTLE SCORE x LOWEST BACTERIA ; COI'JNT “HIGHEST GENERAL RATING THOMPSONS DAI DECATUR 1400 ARMY PLANES HONOR STINSON AT FUNERAL | Flying Formation With Vucant‘ Space Accompanies Crash Vic- tim’s Body to Grave. 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