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PARLEYS
M. KUWASHIMA VISITS
NANKING
CHANG CHUN-KAWAGOE PARLEYS OPENING SHORTLY
(From A Special Correspondent)
Canton. To-day.
Mr. Kuwashima, the Director of the East Asia Eureau of the Japanese Foreign Office, went to Nanking, the Chinese capital by air from Shanghai early yesterday morning after holding an important conference with the Japanese. Consul-General at Shanghai, the Japanese Military and Naval Attaches, and high officials of the Japanese Embassy on Monday night. He arrived at Nanking at 8 am and went to the Japanese Embassy at-10 a. to see Mr. S. Kawagoe, the Japanese Ambassador to China, to convey to the latter the new proposals for the coming Sino- Japanese relations. It is reported that Mr. Kuwashima will not stay long in the Chinese capital and will not meet the high Chin: ese-officials himself.
It is stated in Chinese circles that Mr. Kawagoe will pay a visit to the Generalissimo at the Central Military Acadenty this afternoon, and the Chàng Chun-Kawagoe negotiations will be re- sumed. before the Double Tenth. The Generalissimo has directed Mr. Chang Chun to deal with the outstanding Sino-Japanese pro- blems in a friendly manner, but to reject any Japanese proposals that may violate the Chinese national rights and sovereignty.
MISS JEAN BATTEN REACHES
IRAQ SAFELY...
Baghdad, To-day-Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand aviatrix engaged on a flight from Eng. jand to New Zealand, arrived yesterday at the Iraq Petrole
Co.'s pumping
Dr. Chou Lou resumed his office as the Chancellor of the National Sun Yat-sen Universi ty yesterday. It is learned that the Generalissimo has request-j ed Dr. Chou to go to Nanking To have a personal interview with him.
Dr. Tai Chi zao, the President
of the Examination Yuan, arrived
Lt. Col Heli Telia (right), emininzider of the insurgent 'column which captured Merid£ from, the Spanish Government defenders last month, is shown resting with his-troops ·befme advancing to the front.
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station midway st Hong Kong from Germany by DESPERATE BATTLE AT
between Baghdad and Damascus.
-Reuter's Balletin Service.
the ss Potsdam at 7 am. yester day. He was greeted by Mr. Wang Ying-yu, Commissioner of Civil
HUGE FIRE IN Affairs for Kwangtong, Mr. Hu
ICHANG
British Bluejackets Help To Fight The Flames
GHASTLY HOLOCAUST PREVENTED
Sung-ching. Commissioner of Education for Kwangung. Mr. Lin Chi-wen, a member of the Kwang- tung Provincial Government, and a number of officials from Canton
he
OVIEDO DEVELOPS
CLAIMS OF SUCCESSES VOICED BY BOTH SIDES
London, To-day.
SERVICES SALARY CUTS MAY NOT BE "TEMPORARY".
SUGGESTIONS FOR ROAD PROGRAMME OUTLINED BY MR. BRAGA
CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF WATER RATE FIGURES. PROVIDED BY MR. M. K. LO
While the Colony's Budgetary provisions for 1937 were general- ly welcomed by the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Coun- cil, in that the Budget has been drawn up with the minimum of extra. taxation, some of its details were vigorously criticised in the speeches of the Hon. Members at this afternoon's meeting of the Council, at which His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, presided.
Referring to the salary cuts introduced among Government ser- vants as an economy measure, the Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell referred pointedly to the possibility that the cuts, far from being considered merely temporary, may have to be permanently incorporated into the service conditions in the near future, since, in the business conditions which now obtain, Hong Kong may have to visualise doing altogether without some services which it cannot afford.
The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo made a closely-reasoned, appeal for,
a modification of the water rates. He quoted figures in support
FIRST MEETING"
London, To-day.
The Palestine Royal Commis- sion held its first meeting
of his case that the Government makes a substantial profit-out PALESTINE COMMISSION HOLDS of the rates at present imposed, and that the charges impose on the owners of tenement houses a serious levy which is general- Jy unpredictable and therefore cannot be incorporated in rents,
Both the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga and the Hon. Mr. A. W. Hughes referred to the Road programme and the incidence of the new Petrol Tax, but whereas the first-named favoured an expansion of the road mileage, Mr. Hughes supported an im- provements programme devoted to the present raads by means of a fixed levy of a percentage of the Petrol Tax,
Various aspects were touched upon by the other Unofficial Members of the Council, the Hon. MË. I. I~ Patersin, the Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson and the Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o,,who also criticised" inüividcal points of the Budent propeumis.---Premmertoes, triburies were paid to His Excellency the Governor for his person- al application to the problems, financial and other, of the Colony since his assumption of the Governorship.
要
the Colonial Office yesterday- The meeting, which was private, was devoted to discussion questions of procedure and other preliminary matters.
* Wireless Service.
British
RÉARMAMENT
IN BRITAIN Dr. Hugh Dalton In Favour
"TIME HAS PASSED FOR
VAGUE, HUMBUGGING. PHRASES"
Edinburgh, To-day. Speaking at the Labour Party
Hon. Mr. Paterson's manner in which he has presented his budget; on this occasion we Speech
can do so with more fervour than usual The memorandum be has VAGARIES OF EXCHANGE had prepared, together with those He came to Canton by the after-
of the Colonial Treasurer and noon express, with the Kwangtung A desperate battle, has, developed in the vicinity of Oviedo,
In his speech the Hour Mr. J. J. Public Works Department, is ad-j officials.
that It is learned
where the Government forces, including a large number of As-
mirable. We wonder though whe- will stay in the city for a couple tarias miners, have redoubled their efforts to capture the city. Paterson said: of days, and then return to Nan- According to a message from Hendaye, the Government claims
"Sir,-Since Sir Henry Pollock ther the formula adopted for the king by air.
to have entered the outskirts of the city at three points. Speaking to the audience at the On the contrary, it is reported that the besieged garrison made his budget speech last year Public Works Department where Conference in support of the re dinner party of Generals Yn Hon- made a sortie, defeating the Government troops infesting the Your Excellency has arrived in items of expenditure are discussed armament resolution Dr. Hugh mow and Huang Mo-chung in his city, while an insurgent relief colman composed of Moors and For-his Colony and the Unofficial across the table could not be ex-Dalton, the former Labour Min fact in Europe was German arya- Bluejackets of H.M.S. Gannet honour, Dr. Tai emphasised that eign Legion troops has arrived outside the city after defeating Members wish that your advent tended to other spending depart-ister, said that the central brute aments If a Labour Government played a heroic part in a fire China should have strong the Government forces in several encounters en route, Reuter could have coincided with a great-ments.
Rabat: Thirty insurgent planes bombed Madrid on Monday Colony you have to govern, a wish er measure of prosperity in the
Exchange Question
came to power to-morrow.such a which devastated a large part and systematic,
according to an insurgent broadcast.
Your Excellency probably shares!: "Perhaps I may be forgiven if Government would be compelled
"It remains for the Unofficial at the outset I refer to exchange. to provide increased British army Members to assure you of their Sisce. Sir Henry Pollock spoke aments. The time had passed for understanding of the diffinities all last year we have seen the rate vague, humbugging phrases. "We". those who may be charged with slide- steadily to its present level, must say to the Fascist States: the administration of this Colony one at which we are very closely There is a limit; so far and no must be faced with to-day, and to allied to the Standard: Dollar and further he said.
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Ichang, To-day.
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united Govern-
GEN. CHIANG'S
of this city yesterday. Hun-¡ment. dreds of buildings were razed over an area of more than a square mile. Thousands havej been rendered homeless and the death-roll is not known, but is
BIRTHDAY
believed to have been heavy- Personal Presents Will Many people were injured,
The bluejackets
Not Be Accepted, through flaming streets carry- ing women and children to
rushed
safety. Several hundred chil- EXCEPTION MADE IN FAVOUR
dren trapped in a school com-
pound were rescued by the Bri- tish sailors, who demolished a
OF AEROPLANES
- A Madrid message states that the insurgents delivered: a second attack near Naval Peral, but had to retire after suffering heavy losses, according to a War Ministry communique. Some of the best Government troops have been sent from Madrid to check the insurgents' advance.
Barcelona: "We are prepared
PROSPECTS FOR wish Your Excellency and Lady which most of us consider the
BRITAIN
Mr. N. Chamberlain's Speech
to fight to the end and to con- quer or die," declared President Companys, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Catalonian revalution yesterday. They were not only fighting [From A Special Correspondent? Fascism but also the old mili- high wall of the compound, al-
Canton, To-day. tary bureaucracy, which they NO ONE WANTS TO BREAK lowing the children access to The Secretary-General of the would drive back by a steady, offensive. — Reuter's the street. After that the Bri-Central Executive Committee heroic tish sailors, together with has been instructed to announce Balletin Service.**** Chinese soldiers, fought the that owing to the difficult situa- conflagration shoulder to shoul-tion in China, the Genéralissimo der throughout the day.
TO PEACE
que will not accept any present for CONTRIBUTION flames lasted well into the his 50th birthday, which will night, and the whole area is take place on the 29th instant now a mass of smoking ruins. (the 15th day of the Chinese
The sailors action is highly ninth moon) except cables and World Agreement On praised by Chinese and foreign-letters of congratulation.
FORTHCOMING WEDDING
Trade
IN GENEVA
THE PEACE
Caldecottia very hearty welcome.
proper thing to be.
"We join with the Colonial "But because of this descent the Secretary in expressing our grati: Government's immediate finances
Įtude to Messrs. Tratman and
Breen for all, they have done for have suffered..
"Perhaps I am being blatantly Hong Kong and with him we wish hindwise when I say that to some
the them every happiness in future. We congratulate Mr. N. Lextent this loss might have been avoided Government was in an Smith and ourselves on his promo invidious position; it must have tion and reappointment to this London, Fo-day,
known to about what level the Colony.
headed Speaking at the annual Bank-
"In the absence of Sir Henry Hong Kong dollar was ers Dimmer yesterday, Mr. The Unofficials knew nothing; they Neville Chamberlain, Chancel Follock I have been asked by muy did, however, ask that so far as lor of the Exchequer, said that observations on the budget. for was possible sterling commitments Britain's expenditure on this 1937 and on events leading up to (salaries excepted) be covered, and they remark rather sadly now that year's defence programme was rising so rapidly as
"It is usual to congratulate the it was unofficial money or at weigh any reasonable probabili-Colonial Secretary on the excellent least it originally was the proper ity of the taxpayers of Hong Kong ty of its being counter balanced egg.
"But I believe the fault to lie deeper than in these recent years. Government has always argued that its policy was never to fix
to..out-
by a corresponding expansion
of revenueAt M
WEATHER REPORT
ers alike, and there is no doubt At present Government ser- that their strenuous efforts vants, schools and the different DRAFT RESOLUTION PREPARED saved what might otherwise public bodies throughout the have incurred a ghastly loss country are subscribing money
There are still pictures of of life. Reuter.
the situation causing us anxie to buy bombers as birthday pre-
"A weak anti-cyclone- covers that whether one settled or did not Geneva, To-day.tý " he said. "Although no- sents for the Generalissimo, who will turn them over to the A, world agreement on interna body can confidently say that North China, and pressure is re-settle the years would strike a
tional trade and communications the prospects portend a time of latively low in-a trough extend balance. Government: As this is simply The forthcoming wedding is an- a matter of increasing the wea-as a contribution to the consolida settled peace, on the other handing from the China Sea across And so they would if nobody nounced between Charles Williams pons of the country aeroplanes tion of peace is contained in a there is no nation that wants to the Philippines to the Westera Stewart Hartley, Agricultural Off are the only presents that the draft resolution to be presented break the peace, for none can Carolines The forecast for cer, of the Malayan Agricultural Generalissimo will accept, as an to the Second Economic Commit confidently believe that even day, as issued by the Bo
North-east winds, Service, and Miss Marie Lenagan, exception to his ruling on the tee of the League by the French victory will not bring more loss Observatory this of. No. 21, Best Street, Port of matter and United Kingdom delegates, and suffering in its train."
probably some (Continued on Page 12) Spain, Trinidad.
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her flan been adopted, always to had fixed the dollar. But had the
settle, Government could in the past-have know exactly. st. any dy, given time what its commitments.
(Continued oR,
STOP PRESS
Nanking: Although it was reported yesterday afternoon that an interview: between Generalissimo Chiang Kai- sheir and Mr. S. Kawagoe would take place to-day, of ficial circles now declage that
a meeting between them so soon is exceedingly unlikely, 86 no arrangements have yet been made-Beater.
INTERPORT CRICKET
Shanghai, to-day Lunch scores: Shanghai 475 for 9 (Parker 98 not out, Meston 18 not out) Better.
Later: P Madar b Mina 6s, J. B. H. Leckie b Lee Si Bridge Lb.w. b Minu 46.
Fall of wickets 7 for 289- for 311; 9 for 401-Reuter.