FIRM
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1940
REPRESENTATIONS
TO SPAIN
ON TANGIER
Vigorous Demarche In "Very Definite Language" Grave View REPLY
ANOTHER
RAIDLESS
DAY
Yesterday was an other raidless day for Britain.
ers
A German bomber Was shot down off Dover in the after- noon by British fight-
without loss
to themselves, according Air Ministry communique, which adds that otherwise there is nothing to re- port. Reuter.
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S. AFRICAN FIFTH COLUMN
MEASURES AGAINST FIFTH:! COLUMN ACTIVITY IN SOUTH AFRICA WERE ANNOUNCED IN PRETORIA YESTERDAY DY THE MINISTER OR NATIVE AFFAIRS.
Taken In Britain
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO SPAIN IS MAKING "FURTHER VIGOROUS REPRESEN- TATIONS" IN "VERY DEFINITE LANGUAGE" ABOUT THE RECENT SPANISH ASSUMP- TION OF SERVICES HITHERTO DEPENDENT ON THE INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF TANGIER.
TO H.K.
PETITION
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to British in Hong Kong they will not be behind any other part of the Empire in accepting whatever sacrifices they may be called upon to make for supreme end view."
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Colony's Petition Following is the main text of the petition cabied on behalf of Evacuation Representation Committee:
This categorical statement on the subject was made by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, in reply to a ques- tion in the House of Commons yesterday as to the the steps being taken to secure the reinstate- ment of British personnel.
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Mr. Eutler recalled that follow- Ing the promulgation of the lav December 1. 11iton was as- sured that the collective and in- dividual rights of British subjects in Tangier would be safeguarded.
The further umfateral action on Deceber 13, with "all the corsequences which flow from it," had been vigorously taken up with the Spanish ment
Gover
Mr.
Mandor (Lib. Geffrey Wolverhampton) urged Govern- Government has ordered the ment carefully to reconsider the removal to other areas of 400 advisability of continuing to sup- food through the British German missionaries who entered ply South African native reserves blockade to a government which this British subjects in of the treats after 1935 because some
and aggressive missionaries are carrying on sub-1 "high-handed
versive propaganda--Reuter.
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Grave View
That the Evacuation Represen- tation Committee hereby petition that the compulsory Evacuation Order should be further revised the so that evacuees who left Colony of Hong Kong for Austra- thelia and elsewhere owing to such Evacuation Order should be per- mitted to return to the Colony if for the following they so desire
Mr. Butler said he used
all werd with
consequences it to indicate the flowing from gravity with which Government view the latter event.
Mr. Philip Neel-Baker (Lab Derby; asked if the negotiations were not successful would Gov. crnment bear in mind the fact that oil was still being allowed to reach Spain, which might be stopped.
Mr. Butler thought "everything
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Fortification Issue Questioned as to fortifications, Mr. Butler replied that the Spanish our Foreign Minister had given Ambassador in Madrid an assur- ance that no fortifications of permanent nature would be creat- ed in the International Zone at Tangier.
British Wireless.
KOWLOON MOTORING INCIDENT
Pleading guilty by letter, Lieut. C. J. Collingwood, residing at No. 100, Waterloo Rond, was fined $8 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen this morning for failing to stop after a collision, and for failing to re- port the accident.
reasons:-
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STOP PRESS
In an editorial of the new East Asia League movement. which was recently sponsored by Japan and which will in- clude Manchukuo and China
as its other members, the "Asahi Shimbun" stated to- day: -
"Japan's leadership in this union should by no means be accompanied by a fear of Japan's coercion or control so long as this is a moral union.
"Japan naturally. sits in a position to shoulder due res- ponsibility as the guardian of . East Asia, as the rapid de- velopment of the East Asia League movement in China would politically give a tre- mendous shock to Chung
king." causes, some
The original Evacuation Order caused grave dissatisfaction, dignation and unrest. There were many contributory
First, that of the Principal being
the requisite steps were not taken to prepare for any emergency between the time when the original scheme was worked out on behalf of the Government in 1939 and the date of the Eva- cuation Order on the 29th June, 1940.
Secondly, such evacuation en- tailed a blundering and unjust racial discrimination amongst Bri- tish citizens of Heng Kong.
Thirdly, owing to the manner in which the Government of the Colony operated such Order, ex- emption was gronted to who had no right to it and many Justifiably entitled to such ex- emption, were unable to obtain it,
many
This dissatisfaction, indignation and unrest were increased in the minds of the law abiding citizens of this Colony by the Hong Kong Government's subsequent notifica- Lion appearing in the Press on the 7th and 8th November: for this new order penalised those who were obedient to the original Or- der and left, and condoned. the disobedience of those who ignor- ed the original Order mained.
The
paper expresses the hope that great strides by the movement are to be expected from now, as it was part of the stipulations of the treaty between Japan and. the. Wang Ching-wei regime, and the Japan Manchukuo- Nanking joint declaration.-Reuter.
Two Japanese military trains on the Tatung-Puchow Railway were wrecked as the result of an air raid by Chin- ese 'planes at dawn on Decem- ber 16, it was officially an- nounced in Chungking yes- terday, says the Shanghai "Sin Wan Pao." Many bombs were dropped, the report adds, saying that incendiarles were also and re-
Japanese dropped on bases and fires started in mill- tary stores and aerodromes,
Reuter..
Your Petitioners therefore hum- bly, request that. the Right Hon- ourable the Secretary of State for: the Colonies will give the neces sary directions to the local Gov- erriment by which all those eva- cuees who desire to return to the Colony may be permitted to do so. Further, that the necessary financial assistance by way of free At 3.30 a.m. on November 15, passage may be provided without accused's car was parked in Pak delay and that, if the necessary. financial arrangements cannot be hoi Street, opposite the Sun Sun
made forthwith, those who are Hotel, about three yards from able in the first place to advance taxi, which was facing his car. When accused drove off he col the expense of a return passage may do so without prejudice to lided with the front purt of the their right to recover such finan- taxi, breaking the side lamp glasscial assistance as and when the and scraping the mud-guard.
necessary scherne can be arrang-
The prosecution alleged that ed. Also that permission should accused, after the collision; later be given for the return to the Co- crashed into the 20 mph.-sign-in lony, at their own expense, of front of the Alhambra Theatre. any who may have been absent. from the Colony on leave for The damage to the taxi was only otherwise when the Evacuation $2 which the Taxi Company was Order was made.
had not claiming. The "Sign" been repaired and the bill sent to accused.
At Own Risk
Further that those who acting
on the advice of the Local Gov-
The prefix "special" to telegrama ernment, remain away, may have nise that if evacuees or used by the "Sunday" Kerald": and the same financial arrangements female rela "China" Mall” to indicata news which made for them as were made when turn imm fa strictly, copyright, under the provis'evacuation was compulsory and Governme slons of the Telecommunications, or be given an undertaking that Gov- 'dinance, 1936, and may got be, espwint
ed under ny circumstances, catur ernment will keep the situation.
continually under review to en wholly or in part, without prlog rangement,
able such persons to return im niediately Government consider that their absence from the co ha lony is no longer to be recom- quen Printed and Published for the mended and will be granted, the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enter-same facilities and financial pathe prise Ltd. by GoDON BURNETT, Wiridsor- House, toria, Hong Kong.
CADE sistance to return.
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Vidi Your Petitionera and thoe
whom they represent fully, recog: | luntary:
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