THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1937
BRITAIN WARNS M. MAISKY Russia's Recalcitrance On Non-Intervention
MAY FIND HERSELF US WARSHIPS AT
DAMASCUS DEVASTATION
As the flood
alem, To-day.
ers recede, the
ISOLATED
London, To-day.
GIBRALTER
London, To-day.
The Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Maisky, had Four United States warships damage done in the week-end de a long conversation with Lord Plymouth yesterday luge in Syria gradually being afternoon on to-day's non-intervention meeting. revealed.
tached to the pean squadron, put in at Gibraltar yesterday.
They are the light cruiser IT IS NO LONGER BELIEVED, SAYS THE DIPLOMATIC Raleigh and the destroyers Blax- A large area of country north of CORRESPONDENT OF THE EVENING NEWS THAT RUS-ton, Kane and Hatfield Damascus is a scene of desolation,
SIA WILL CHANGE HER ATITUDE AT TO-DAY'S MEETING. Ocean with corpses strewn for miles around
Relief work is proceeding apace, with drinking water being supplied from Damascus, local supplies hay- ing become contaminated.
Villages still cut off by the water are being provided with supplies from the air.
Survivors of the catastrophe talk of the amazing rapidity with which the waters rose, taking the entire countryside by surprise-Trans- Ocean
SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME IS WAR
Britain and France, he says, have informed Russia that if she would remain unbending in the question of belligerent rights, protection under t
the Nyon Agrement could no long er be afforded to Soviet ships.
f Russia would further refuse
Trans
NANKING DESPATCHES
REINFORCEMENTS TO SHANSI
Nanking, To-day
The Chinese are rushing reinforcements
to grant belligerent rights to Gen-Shansi Province to check the Japanese advance on eral Franco, he adds, a situation the provincial capital, Taiyuanfu. would arise that the Spanish Na- tionalists could search all suspect portions of the 8th Route Army are advancing from It is announced semi-officially in Nanking that ships expect Russian vessels.
North Shansi to the south to support the Chinese troops concentrated near Yuanchuan, and will The Nationalists might then take launch a joint offensive. the law into their own hands, says It is realised in Nanking that the correspondent, and there Japanese capture of Taiyuanfu would be complications.
would mean a dangerous weaken- ing of the Chinese position in
WARNING TO RUSSIA
The correspondent concludes by Shansi. saying that Britain and France
1940 Is Time For Arms med Russia she stood in danger
Climax
New York, Oct. 23. The war spirit of the world will reach its climax in 1940 or 1941, when present armaments reach
their peak and current interna
tional issues come to a head, Mr.
AT ALL COSTS
of being isolated, and could not rely on aid from the Nyon signa- It is therefore declared that the tories Trans-Ocean.
Chinese line near Yuanchuan must be maintained under all circum- stances.
MAX SCHMELING
H. G. Wells, the writer, declared SAILS FOR N. YORK
to the press yesterday after his visit to President Roosevelt, ac- cording to the "New York Times"
Berlin, To-day.
Max Schmeling will sail for New "I cannot imagine a more hon-York on Friday this week on the est man than President Roose Bremen preparatory to commenc- velt in control of a great state, "ing training for his bout with he said when asked if the Presi- Harry, Thoma, of Chicago. dent had any characteristics of a
dictator. "I don't think you have! The fight is scheduled for De- any danger of a dictator in him." cember 3 Trans-Ocean:
ALHAMBRA
DON-DAILY AT
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW Love and Life Endangered by Mystery
BUCK JONES
Secret Enemy Hidden Perils!
Riding, Fighting Thrills Romance
Mystery Directed by
THURS
e RANGE FEUD
John Wayne Susan Fleming
"SECRET CODE"
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SNANSI ATTACK BROUGHT TO A FULL STOP
Tientsin, 2 p.m. To-day.
The Japanese advance Fast The Chinese troops are also pre- Their headquarters state that the Shansi has been brought to a halt. paring an offensive on the Peiping forces opposing are massed in Hankow Railway line near the overwhelming numbers and strong Chang River, in order to check the reinforcements will be necessa enemy drive southward and to before the offensive throw the Japanese out of Honan
pursued.
The
can
Well-informed circles believe that the Chinese Shausi will start within the next
necessary diversion Offensive in troops to Fast Shanai is now pro three days.Trans-Ocean.
ceeding, and strong reinforcements are also being sent to North Shansi-Our Own Correspondent
Forgotten Island
Reported Found In 2 BRITISH SAILORS Philippine Group
A traveller who has just re- turned to Manila from a trip to
the Philippine Islands, reports
DROWNED
Boat Capsizes In Race
Leading Seaman William Forbes
that several hundred families and Able Seaman Alexander are living in a small island of Patterson, from the cruiser Leander, the Philippine group, forgotten were drowned in Auckland by civilisation.
when their galley capsized race.
bour
The Leander, 7,140 tons, is a unit
For a considerable length of time, ships have not come near the island owing to the extreme of the New Zealand Division of the ly dangerous reefs. Moreover, it Royal Navy, but the two men were does not even figure in the refrom Great Britain. cords of the Mamla Government.
The traveller declares that the
itants have returned
mpletely savage state.
are no schools, and the maj of the population is
Notified of this state
fairs, the Philippine Governmen intends to dispatch a
whose first task will be to this forgotten island
A New Zealand seaman
amen