THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1938.
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JAPAN'S COUNTER
NAVAL "ULTIMATUM"
Request Refused With Offer Of Limitation Talks BOMB STRAFE Denies Her Warships N. C. O.-
Are Menace To
AT CHANGSHA HONG KONG PLANE LANDS WITH DIFFICULTY
Hankow, To-day: · Changsha, capital of Hunan, was subjected to terrific bombing by Japanese aircraft yesterday morn- ing, when Fanchen, Ichang and Shasi were also attacked.
Others
Tokyo, To-day.
Charging the other naval powers with attempting "laying at the Japanese door responsibility for
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a construction race,” Japan emphatically denies
KILLED IN PALESTINE
Jerusalem, To-day.
A British army sergeant was shot and killed in an encounter between a military column and an armed gang north of Tulkaram yesterday. Renter
that she is building warships constituting a DUKE
AND
menace to others, an official statement being DUCHESS OF
published later this week will declare.
communique is being released simultaneously
with delivery of the Japanese replies to the Br KENT IN ATHENS
tish, American and French Notes asking for information on Japanese building plans.
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Athens, To-day. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Countess Toer-
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They were greeted at the station by the King of Greece and Prince and Princess George of Greece:
The Duchess of Kent was in deep mourning Reuter.
While details of the raid on Changsha are lacking, the Ger- män pilot of the Eurasia plane from Hong Kong found it almost An emergency Cabinet meet-, armament, is taking this opportun-ring (daughter of the late Prince impossible to land the machine oning is being held on Saturday to ity to announce that she is prepar Nicholas of Greece) arrival at Changsha immediately approve the text of the Japan-ed to participate in
and Prince after the
disarmament Paul of Yugo-Slavia, arrived here bombing, because of ese Notes, which are expected to which aims at limitation both the numerous holes in the air-be forwarded soon after.
in yesterday. field.
quantity and quality. The pilot believes the raid took ese replies, while refusing
It is reported that the Japan- The official communique recalls a heavy toll in casualties,
to that at the Disarmament Conference al-comply with the request, reiter-of 1986, Japan took the stand that though he is unable to give accurate Japan's willingness to dis-disarmament ate figures.
restricted only to cuss disarmament qualitative and a quantitative companied by limitation of quant on both a limitation of quality and not ac ity, was not disarmament, and that it was unreasonable to involve noti fur-fication of naval building plans in
such a disarmament scheme.
The burial will take place in the Japan further proposed a plan Royal residence in Tator, establishing a common upper limit several members of the Royal fami- where which would restrict both the quant-ly are interred. Trans-Ocean. sessed by the Powers concerned. ity and quality of battleships pos-
QUITE BEYOND
Chinese aircraft also conducted a raid yesterday morning, when basis. eleven bombers flew to the Pengpu front and bombed Japanese troop concentrations on the Tientsin Pukow Railway-Reuter.
WARSHIPS DRAW OFF FROM BOCCA TIGRIS
Canton, To-day... Three Japanese warships which were hovering near Bocca Tigris have left and are now cruising near Tai Man Shan, a few miles from the forts.
In the vicinity, it was reported last night, are also 12 Japanese fishing steam-launches which have been converted into miniature gun- boats.
TOKYO'S COUNTER The
statement will the ther call Britain and the U United States, as the "biggest
aval powers in the world," to give up the offen- sive naval vessel and join Japan in an effort at disarmament
with
been laid in a big room, temporari- The body of Prince Nicholas, has ly serving as a chapel, in the hotel "Great Britain where the Prince spent his last days.
COURT MOURNING
Athens, To-day.
dered that the Court shall go into King George of Greece has or- mourning for a month for the late Prince Nicholas.
Date of the funeral will not be fixed until all the late Prince's sons Athens, which they are expected to do by the to-night-
The Navy and the Foreign Office, after prolonged consultations, have decided that the contents of the re- "The powers failing to agree to plies, which will recall that Japan this proposal, the Japanese Govern- expressed objection at the London ment did not subscribe to the dis- Disarmament Conference in 1936 armament treaty concluded in as to disarmament restricted to quali-much as it had only to do tative limitation unaccompanied by limitation of quality and notifica- and daughters arrive in quantitative limitation, and notification of naval construction plans. ground that such steps would not British, United States and French tion of naval building plans, on the
"Therefore the requests of contribute toward real disarmament. Governments for such notification, will be taken to the Cathedral ---
This afternoon the Prince's, coffin NO CHANGE
to which Japan has not agreed, is the lying in state. Trans Ocean. quite beyond the understanding of the Japanese Government." Reuter. REPLY TO-DAY?
Tokyo, To-day..
ARMY RECRUITING
London, To-day.
Even to day the Japanese Gov- armament has undergone no change, ernment's attitude concerning dis- the communications will declare.
"Although Japan did not parti The Japanese replies to the Bri- cipate in the treaty concluded at tish, American and French Notes The enemy craft have, however,
that conference, the Japanese Gov-may be handed to the respective refrained from shelling the fortsent is making efforts to bring Ambassadors on Thursday, declar- during the last three days, and it about self-sufficiency in armanients ed the Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki is now thought that the demon- based upon the pre-established prin- Hirota, yesterday evening. Trans- for that particular week since 1981.
stration is over.
ciple of non-menace and non-aggres| Ocean.
The Chinese military are, how,sion." ever, keeping a close watch on their movements Our Own Gor- respondent.
REINFORCEMENTS
FOR SOUTH HOPEL FRONT
Peiping, To-day.
.. INCOMPREHENSIBLE The request for information garding Japan's naval plan is "in- comprehensible" to the Japanese Government, which "regrets its inability to comply."
The communication will further disclaim responsibility for current rumours that Japan is building vessels of a ske
exceeding the
limitations of the 1936 Treaty.
Surprise is voiced at invocation of the escalator clause, because of Ja
Several trainloads of Japanese panese failure to reveal building troops passed through Fengtai plans, as if her course of action is junction en route to the Peiping-indicative that construction of the Hankow Railway front yesterday, vessels constitutes a
Operations aiming at cutting of others.
the Lunghai Railway at Cheng- chow, in north Honan, are be
menace
LIMITATION OFFER
The Japanese Government,
lieved to be imminent. Reuter, ing to its earnest desire for
The recruits for the Regular Army during last week numbered 821, an increase of 302 over the correspond- ing week of last year and a record
British Wireless.
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