THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 27, 1988.
PREMIER ON BRITISH
AID
TO
CHINA
No Loan: Other Methods Now Under Consideration
KIUKIANG ON
FIRE: JAPANESE
CLAIM TO BE
PUSHING SOUTH
Shanghai, To-day.
Intervention
Without even a brief pause for rest, the Japanese troops, following the occupation of Kiukiang, imme- diately pushed on one column driv- ing down the Kiukiang-Nanchang The Railway and another along the Yangtse, declare Japanese reports.
The sky above Kiukiang last night was brilliantly lit up by the several huge fires which are raging unchecked along the Bund.
Could Not Be
Ventured Alone
London, To-day.
BRITAIN AND U.S.A. TO WORK TOGETHER?
London, To-day, When the Premier turned to
The Prime Minister made special reference to the relations with the United States of Sino-Japanese hostilities in the course of his America during his Commons foreign policy speech in the Commons, and in-speech, he expressed the opinion timated that while no loan was possible to that they had never been better China, practical assistance of several kinds than at present. were under consideration.
Taking up a reference... i Premier said that the war was still being car-Archibald Sinclair's speech ried on with all the horrors seemingly insepar-stanhope's observations in the
debt question, able from war, but the Brussels Conference Lords last Thursday made the at- last November showed clearly enough that no titude of the British Government proposal involving any intervention on the part of members of the League in the conflict would have any chance of acceptance.
At the present, Kiukiang is the picture of desolation, with the ma- jority of the buildings in the city
The British Government could, damaged or completely demolished of course, not undertake such in- as a result of the severe aérial and naval bombardment of the past two days.
tervention alone.
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"We have considered long and anxiously," he went on, "whether JAPANESE ALLEGATIONS we would be justified-in introduc- Japanese reports allege the four-ing the special legislation neces- mile waterfront was converted by sary if the Government had grant- the Chinese into a strongly defended or guaranteed a loan to China.
HYPOTHETICAL VALUE, - ed zone, with pill-boxes, trenches
"We came finally to the definite and barbedwire entanglements much in evidence. They also allege conclusion that we should not be justified in the case of a loan that there has been wide-spread which would have to be based upon looting of foreign property, mainly security of hypothetical value and the foreign owned buildings, by in regard to which it was by no the Chinese troops.
means certain that if granted it It is reported that the Asiatic would achieve the objective intend Petroleum Company and the So-
ed. cony installations are virtually
"But the fact that we have not unharmed, as well as the girl's been able to grant or guarantee a school operated by the American loan to China," said Mr. Chamber- Church Mission.
lain, "does not exclude other forms
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It is revealed that a Japanese of assistance to China, financial or Consular official followed the
tropps in order to deal with ques- 'tions involving third Power pro- perty.-Reuter.zése
PHANTOM ARMY
BEHIND JAPANESE LINES
London, To-day.
One of the greatest threats to the Japanese success in China is not armed opposition, but "the
otherwise.
OTHER PLANS
"There are various proposals | from China: for assistance.in, an- other way which is not open to the objection which at any rate we find to the loan.
"Those proposals are, now under consideration by the Government departments concerned.
"We should be very glad to offer our services to bring about a cessa-
EMBASSIES TO MOVE
Hankow, To-day.
phantom army of workers" behind Authorities of the British, the Japanese lines, declared Colonel American, France, Italian and So- Chu Hsuch-fan in a speech to the viet Embassies are leaving for Chungking between August 8, and Trade Union officials in London.
August 10.
The Colonel said that this army There is no official Information of peasant workers, by passive yet available concerning the date of resistance and by their ability to departure of the German Embassy, keep out of sight when wanted. It has been definitely decided that for work by the Japanese and the staff of the Executive Yuan will their readiness to assist the leave for Chungking on July 28, Chinese guerillas and soldiers, aboard a specially chartered steamer. was costing, Japan, nearly much as their sactual front-lin fighting onze 35
Colonel:Chu, Hsueh«fan”
ed to the trade. Unionists
strengthen theira, boycott.
rom reliable sources it has been arned that the Soviet Ambassador uganet Sorelsky, whone - aud- den departure for Moscow Home weeks! aroused considerable has already laft/Mos- and is expected in for Hankow with his wife about
weapon against Japan, and urged cow for China a
greater China
credit
Beuter.
end of this month.-Reuter.
the
-BRITISH
PLANES FOR PORTUGAL
Lisbon,. To-day.
The Portuguese Naval Author- Ities have announced that they pre ordering 40 planes from Eng- ∙land of the type used for training
purposes-Regter.
tion of hostilities in the Far East if and when we see the opportunity which presents favourable chance of success." Reuter
perfectly clear.
- he said that Lord
He regarded the trade agreement now under negotiation not merely as an attempt to come to a com- mercial arrangement, but as an effort to demonstrate the pos- sibility of Britain and U.S.A., work- ing together and as the forerunner of collaboration of wider applica tion.
It was not necessary to display impatience because of the delay. A Commercial Treaty of this-nature began with an enormous number of articles, everyone of which had to be discussed and negotiated. They had gone through" "this" great schedule and they had agreed upon- a great part of it but, as always happened, you came at some time to certain points which offered special difficulty. That did not alter the confidence that the diffi- culties would be satisfactorily re- solved British Wireless,
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