THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1933.
JAPAN. BETWEEN
DEVIL AND
AND DEEP SEA
Unable To Release Troops For South Shantung
EUGENE CHEN Generalissimo's
Spokesman Sums
RETURNS
BELIEVES WORLD
WAR IS ON
Mr.
former Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister in the National Government, accompanied by his wife, a celebrated artist in Paris, arrived in the Colony this morn- ing in the D'Artagnan.
Im an interview he said he did not wish to talk on the policy of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, but men- tioned that his resignation in 1932 was due to the fact that he (Mr. Chen) was in favour of resistance against Japan while the General at that time, disagreed.
U. S. INTERVENTION
He also recalled that at that time Col. Stimson, Secretary of State in Washington, in his "Memoirs" sug- gested that America was willing to act in co-operation with other po- wers against the Japanese.
SURPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Up Situation IN WHITFIELD
MYSTERY
Hankow, To-day.
New York, To-day. There has been a surprising de-
Reviewing the military situation, General Hsu Pei- keng, Chief of Intelligence at the Generalis- simo's Headquarters, declared that as far as is known the Japanese have transferred one divi-velopment in the hunt for Andrew sion operating in North Shansi and the West Carnegie Whitfield, wealthy nephew of the late Andrew Carnegie, who Suiyuan area to Peiping.
has been mysteriously missing since he took off from R sevelt Field in his own plane for a short solo flight on Friday last week.
-FRANCE
Three thousand Japanese troops arrived at Lingyi yesterday and launched an offensive on the Chinese positions without success. Chinese forces are, continuing | to harass the Japanese troops along the Peiping-Suiyuan Rail way, in Shansi, Anhwei and Chekiang, making it impossible for the Japanese to transfer troops to Shantung for offensive operations.
But General Hsu Pei-keng emphas- that was when Hitler and Mus-ised that it was possible that the solini were not in power-the situa- Japanese would send further re- tion was fundamentally different.
Mr. Chen recently read an open letter to President Roosevelt at the University Club of Paris.
same
To-day he maintains the views, and his principal argument is that Japan's war on China
inforcements from Japan Proper or from Manchuria, but such a step would expose Japan to the gravest dangers.
The Chinese Command, in the is meantime, had completed pre- part of the "World War" that had parations to meet any emer-
already begun in different parts of gency. the world, under different forms, and that the safest way to prevent
this world war from developing is
to help China at a time when the
"anti-war" Powers are still strong- er than the "war" Powers.
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Beuter.
FLIRTS WITH ITALY
Rome, To-day.
The French charge d'affaires in Rome is seeing Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, to-day as the first step towards conda- sion of an Italo-French agreement similar to the Anglo-Italian Agreement-Renter.
!APANESE BURNING S'HAI
YIHSIEN BATTLE VILLAGES
Shanghai, To-day.
The battle for Yihsien is in-
Shanghai, To-day.
The Japanese military are re- the creasing in intensity, but the sorting to wholesale destruction, "People in Europe talk of next world war. That is all wrong Japanese are holding out appar-systematically, of villages sur- There is a world war already beently expecting re-inforcements rounding Shanghai in an effort to to reach them before the Chinese reduce the mobility of the gueril- gun," he emphasised.
gain more ground.
las who are creating havoc along the Japanese lines of communi- cation.
THE NEXT OFFENSIVE "Within this frame-work," he
The Chinese have encircled the continued, “they are preparing for town and posts have been thrown
totalitarian the next offensive-2
cut to warn of any relieving offensive which is to be sudden, force. overpowering and decisive.”
a result of the return
Fears that he had crashed were largely dispelled as a wide- spread search by land and sea failed to disclose any trace of wreckage of his plane..
The embarcation officer of the Red Star Line yesterday said that a man closely resembling Whitfield boarded the steamer "Westerland” shortly before she sailed for Europe on Saturday, accompɛ ied airman named Frank by an Teinman.
Teinman is known to have sailed on the ship, and wireless messages sent to the "Westerland" elicited the reply from the captain that Whitfield is not on board.
Teinman said he last saw Whit- field three weeks ago.-Reuter.
RUMANIA'S FIVE YEAR PLAN
Bucharest, To-day The Rumanian five-year econgmic plan comes into effect to-day un- A sudden influx of refugees der the direction of M. Constan- Minister of the new into Shanghai has intensified as tinescu,
of the Department of National Economy.
The plan includes a plan for ex- Late last night a report came guerillas to the close vicinity of "I suggest that this is only too clear once you glance at the opera- through that the Chinese had en the Settlement coupled with the ploitation of the Rumanian oil cluding representatives of British tions planned by the new Caesars tered Hanchwang and that the Ja- Japanese "scorched earth" po- fields by which a commission, in-
withdrawn.licy. Central anese defenders had throughout the work-in
This influx is causing serious capital and oil companies, is being and Eastern Europe, in Spain, in Street fighting was violent and the France, in the Mediterranean and explosions of hand-grenades, the concern to the local authorities in established under Royal Decree co- Northern Africa in Palestine and rattle of machine-guns was audible in view of the imminent arrival operative with the Government in of hot weather and the possibi- efforts to increase crude oil output new sources.-Reu- throughout the night. the waters of the Far East.
The torn is blazing in some parts, lity of an outbreak of cholera and discover
Reuter. ter. "There is a deployment of the new technique of the "invisible the Japanese setting fire to-build- and other epidemics.
ings to halt the Chinese advance. war."
Mr. Chen argued that since in The Chinese suffered, very heavy his estimation Germany and Italy casualties when they first entered could not afford to start a real world the town last evening. Mines laid war before 1940, nothing would by the Japanese were exploded as happen in Europe should Britain they rushed through the gates, blow- and France join in a Far Eastern ing scores to pieces. intervention.”
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The Chinese "are How - moving This would be even more effec-warily, but are steadily gaining the tive, he said, if such action took upper-hand. Our Own Correspon- the form of a quadruple interven-dent.
tion by Britain, France, Russia and the U.S.A. in the sense of a cate gorical demand for the cessation "of Japan's work of butchery in China.
HUGE FIRE IN HANKOW
Hankow, To-day.
following three explosions in a factory in the vicinity of Chung- shan Park, on the western out- skirts, destroying the matsheds! surrounding the factory.
The cause of the explosions is not yet known,
The fire raged for two hours
A huge conflagration broke before it was brought under con- out early yesterday afternoon, trol.
Reuter.
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