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CZECH CHURCH-STATE WAR Western Union
Prague Reds Call For Fight Without Quarter DEFIANT CATHOLIC STAND
Prague, July 17.
The Communist Party called today for a fight without quarter to crush the Czechoslovak hierarchy of our greatest` enemy -the Church.”
Red Seeking Contact With West?
London, July 17.
British consular dispatches from Nanking indicated today that the Chinese Communisla may soon seck to establish diplomatic and conautar reta. tions with the Western powers.
The reports sald the Com- munists had asked the Briflin Embassy and other diplomatic missions in Manking. Shang hal and Hangchow for lists of staffa and individual diplo. matic ranks. The Commun. lats also asked for Hats of can. sulates
throughout Chink with the names of those in charge, the consular reporta Bald.
At the same time the Com. munlats were reported to be recruiting by competitive examination hundreds of Blu- dents between 18 and 28 for a national foreign language school in Pelping where Eng. tich and Russian would be taught.--United Press.
TYPHOON LASHES S. JAPAN
Tokyo, July 17.
¡A Party manifesto said victory" was necessary to complete Communisation of the nation, es- pecially the collectivisation of farms against peasant resistance.
"We want to give good Catholics the opportun- ity finally to get rid of clemonts which are damaging us,” the manifesto said. "It is not a question of liquidating churches entire- ly, but of liquidating the Church order."
About three fourths of faithfully and devotedly with our Czechoslovakia's 12,000,000 belover Archbishop. Dr. Beran. 11 Czechoslovak Bishops, people are Roman Catholics. and
The archives of the National being ready to suffer with them Parliament list three Ministers If need be and condemn the so-
of the Communist government Catholic and schismatie.
called Catholic Action ns
is Catholics.
4
this
Cripps To Go On Six-Week Sick Leave
London, July 18. Sir Stafford Cripps, Bri- tain's Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, is to go into a nurs-
soon ing home in Switzerland as the current Common- wealth financial talks in Lon- don are over, it was officially announced here today.
non-
We are making declara- One of the three is the Justice Minister, Mr. Alexi Cepicka, who tion under the clauses guarantee- Friday nceused Crecheglovaking religious freedom and freelon Bishops
of treason, termed the opinion in our constitution. It Vatican
and is made spontaneously and with- of the state fee of
maines may threatened to prosecute
anyone out pressure so our who tried to enforce the decree hot any longer be persistently re-
in false in Pope Plus XII excommunicat thousands of priests and be
reports
claiming ting ComuntoMĒS,
The archives also name the De-lievers endorse the Catholic Action good Bishops are fence Minister.
Ludvik and that Mr.
Us with threats of Svoboda, and the Trade Minister persecuting
punishments,
He is in undergo treatment for Mr. Antonin Gregor as Catholies, Church
"We making this declara a digestive allment which has re- tion
being aware of our respon-
centiv become slightly worse. sibility to the whole nation and Treatment may
Lake about six as a dictate by
consciences weeks, but Sir Stafford s expected
No Equality
Dur
out
Naval Exercises
HMS Theseus (nearest camera) light, fleet aircraft carrier, with the French fight flast carrier Arromanches, astern, seen In lins ahead during the recent combined Western Union naval exercise.
British In background (third ship in lina) lạ the submarine depot ship HMB Maidstone. AP Photo,
Emergency Council Main Hope For KMT War Comeback
Canton, July 17.
China's new Emergency Council holds the main hope for any Nationalist civil war comeback against the Communists, informed sources said today.
which criter us 20 rust the into be fit again in time for the im: The The manifesto said there would terests of God above the in-portant dollar talks which are to le na compromise in the tight terasts of people."
take place in Washington in Sep gainst the Chitre. It laid down The declaration was read be- tember. these directives:
fore about 200 persons at SL
the
1.
A
mere
12-mon Council-actually a Supreme Wor Cobinet was activated on Saturday with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as its top
man.
The official announcement said: "As soon
as the present dis- cussions with Commonwealth
A source whe is in a posi- Fiance Milsters have finished, the Chancellor of the Exchequer tion to know exactly what is u nursing home in going on, in the high levels of will go into
the Nationalist government Switzerland for a few weeks.
"For many years the Chancellor sald a comeback against the on achieving has suffered from a digestive uil-Reds depends
Europe's Reaction ment which has at times neces-unity within the Kuomintang.
meanwhile, reports from London, wave of anti. clericaliam throughout Europe not only in the East but also in
Italy predominantly Catholic and France, is likely to follow
The season's
Reuters. second major tropical storm lashed Southern Тарап with heavy rain and winds up to 95 miles an hour this morning us it drove across areas still suffering from the effects of last month's typhoon, "Dellu.
that Canton would fall wherever the Reds choose to threaten it.
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Trade Unions To Try Settlement Of Dock Strike
London, July 16. The two trade unions whose members are among the 14,000 idle in the London dock stoppage today asked the Shipping Federation a British employers' organi- sation-to arrange talks between the- striking Canadian Seamen's Union and Canadian ship-owners.
A statement, issued after delegates of the unions had spent six hours at the Ministry of Labour in a bid to reach a settlement, said union Executives would hold themselves in readiness to take whatever steps proved possible to secure a full resumption of normal working. The London stoppage began over the dock-work- ers' refusal to handle strike-bound Canadian vossals.
dock-workers
A request that the Minister Secretary of the Federation, as- of Labour, Mr. George Isaacs, sured the London try to arrange a meeting be-of fraternal support tween the Canadian ship-
other Among
telograms owners and the Canadian sea-ceived by the "Lock-Out Com- men could not be entertained, mittee" was one from the Mont- the statement added.
On
FC
real Fur Workers' Union Joint to our The Shipping Federation will flourd saying, "Thanks"
own Flesh and blood for support consider the unions' request
of Canadian Seamen's Union". Monday,
There were messuges from other Canarian Unions, from the Italien Labour Confederation and Italian dockers, from the United and Machine Electrical, Radio workers of America and
trom Portugal and Sweden.-Rouler
Arrangements have been made. the to step up to nearly 7,000 number of Service-men who will work at the docks on Monday,
The servicemen from the Army Navy and Air Force. have been
unloading food cargoes and toad- ing export shipments which had already piled up in warehouses.
quayside
More Than 14,000
and Associated Press.
Boy Drowns At Sai Wan
committed The special signed to run the docke when the government took over in a state of emergency' a week #80 - A Tragic accident., occurred stated 14,038 dock workers
yesterday at Sai Wan,, when a ware Idis, cargo ships tled up with service personnel 15-year-old boy, Hung Wal- busy on about 50 more. Others cheung, drowned while swim- of the 170 ships now at London ming, at a nearby beach. Į wharves are being handled by "More and more men in the
The hoy spent the night camp the 10,000 stevedores who reing with a party of scouts of the armed forces," the soura cald,
fused to join the stoppage. "were
conviction
13th roop; Hong Kang, at Sai War. expressing that the only sourse is to take
The dock stoppage began three At about 11 am. yesterday the the offensiva." He added that weeks ago when workers refused boy and several scouts had a game Generalissimo Chieng and Proto unload two Canadian ships in- of basketball, after which they sltated special treatement in a "Military unity will be automa-
zident Li were to get together volved in a dispute between ship went swimining at the beach. particular clinic in Zurich whose the if party unity is achieved,"
for miltary conferences.
owners and
and the Canadian Sea- doctors дте familiar with his said this source.
a goot Proving that he was The Dock Labour men's Union.
· He sald Guneralissimo Chlang's
Board
refused to call up workers swinimer, the boy walked out in19. "His condition hus recently be} first talk with acting President Li
to load
unloud other ships in the deep rection come somewhat aggravated, and Tsung-jen, after he (the Gener-
The Nationalists got a shot in the Thames docks until the two Suddenly he lost control and a few weeks ago his doctors de-alissimo) arrived here on Thurs-
shouted for help. elded that a course of special day,
orm from Cieneralissimo disputed concerned setting up the
cleared. ships Chlang's meeting with Philippine High government spokesmen. On arcing this, the scout leader
lust including the Prime Minister, Mr. swam out to rescue him. Whe more important than anything weekend, which resulted in an Clement Attlee, called the stop the boy was brought back to U.1
Communist-inspired anti-Communist accord between page
beach, artiücia! respiration It becomes the Kuomintang's "The Chancellor was,
the
warned dockers they were belugapplied and an ambulance collen countries. ever, anxious to finish the first top policy making body.
The fact that Generulissimu Commenting on this, the source usled into supporting It stage of the present consulta.
the said today the matter tions with other Governments Chiang nominated 14
Council's vice-chief makes the forming this accord into a churler which have been arranged 10 deal
with
our common economie Acting President more or less the now rests with the Foreign Offices and financial problems.
deputy leader of the Kucnintang, of the two countries.
lite durs not
within two He predicted "This stage is now almost com exist, the source sait.
three weeks a final conference it plate.
the opinion of his und in
During the past few month which the Republic of Korea medical advisers it has become essential that frontment should there have been many reports of would also be represented.→→Asso-
case,
Shot In The Arm
Sever all ties between the Vitus just before the 9.30 mm. Czach Cathelic hierarchy and Mass. The crowd was the Vatican.
handful in the vast hall of the 2. Cuild a wall between Czech cathedral warre Dr. Beran was Archbishops and howled down on June 19 by a Dishops and
people.
group of Cofomunist hecklers. 3. Turn the people againet Archbishop Josef Beran, the nation's Primate (who is under Folice guard In his Palace.) "As long as they (the Catholics) are not completely divided, wei will not be able to liquidate the Church question," the statement raid. "The Bishops fear the cov
they are more afraid ernment, but of Vatican authorities."
"The Church is our greatest
come necessary. is centred in enemy. This enemy the
unless prusantry and The typhoon, "Faye." roared liquidate this opposition, we shall RCTOSS the heavily populated dis- not be able to conquer resistance
establish tricts of South West Kyushu this in the villages to the
Neuter despatches show varying morning, moving North West at ment of co-operatives (collectives) degrees of immediate Traction to à speed of 10 miles per hotir. and completion of our Socialist the decree from Prague's "It is
Heavy property dongge
programme. But first the Com-an outright declaration of war" to loss of life were feared along the inullst centre of the typhoon's course but foundaties must guin strong Rome's prediction of a "new whe
in the villages.
of anti-clericalism similar to that no reports of damage had been "Orghaily we wanted to reach received in Tokyn by noon textuyun agreement with the Chuch which swept Italy "fler the war."
This, brieffy, yphoon when Set A Force but they refused this. So now the taken by the Vatican through its typhoon warning network reported | agreement will be far more dif- supronie body in matters of faith not be postponed longer, so that differences between Generalissime ciated Press.
that the typhoon was moving cult and cruel for them." along a course which should take
It across "Western Kyushu and the | Western tip of Honshu where it will pass out over the Sea of Japan about dawn on Monday.
The occupation and Japanese! government agencies In the area were advised to take necessary precautions against heavy rains, destructive winds, high tides and floods. Most
and fighting cargo vessels in the area were reported
Defiant Message
we
the Vatican's decree on the ex treatment at the clinic had be new end the source, is President Elpidio Quirino
communication of Catholica who
are Communists, according to observera
continent's
capitala.
In
the
ar
the decision
1.That it is illegal for Cathe- lies to be Communists or eundone Communism.
Treatment Essential
how
The
else.
although
such
DS
it may be completed satisfactorily and President Ll. i took over in lime to enable him to visit Acting President after Gener- Washington for the Ministerini alissling
discussion there
rend ready been announced."
2. That is Blog for them to print, distribute or literature propagating Commun- ism.
sient:
have al-
Mr. Clement. Attlee, the Prime
Minister, is to make a full state-
ment about Sir Stafford's health in the House of Commons tomer-
row,
"retired"
Chiong January. Generalissimo Chiang continued R5 the Nationalist strong
from behind the
seches.
man
Morale Up
of trans-
RUTH NICHOLS
OF
and
of the benci.
WI..
The stoppage came in for sharp The boy, however, died on th eriticism from both Labour and way to hospital. Conservative Members of Parlia ment again today.
Meanwhile, the 14,000 man idie in the London dook stop- pigs today received a cable of congemulations on their "aplan- did action for international solidarity" from an international conference of
seamen
NO VISAS FOR RED CHINA
Canton, July 17.
The Chinese Ministry of For- eign Affairs has instructed its and Embassies and Consulates abroad dockers of the World Feders to refuse visas to foreigners try- tian of Trado Uniona *fing to enter Communist-held Marseilles.
territories in China.
IN TOKYO
The.telegram, signed by` M.] Tokyo, July 17.
The order also applies to diplo- Ruth Nichols, the world famous Louis Safiloni, French General mutle officials.-Router. Amerlenn nviotrix, arrived fi The informed source also an, Tokyo last eight as pilot and al sorted
the Nationalist closure member of the American Youth of Communist ports and air Argosy's Inaugural round-the- attacks on the Roda has in world flight.
creased
morale, of govern- the ment armed forces within th pas faw weeks.
Miss Nichols set three world records for women in altitude, în speed and In long-distance flying in 1031.
In Prague, a defiant message from the Catholic clorgy de-
3. That if Catholles are guilty! nouncing the government-spon- sored and excommunicated of these acts they cannot be ad- Catholic Action was read today! mitted to the Holy Sacraments.
4.That Cathotics who are will- Mr. Attlee will probably then at Prague's 8t. Vitus Cathedral,
for filing can be excorn-outline arrangements The declaration, pledging loyalty ing Communists
municated. to have tied up in parts and pre- to Archbishop Joseph Beran was
Bir Stafford's place during his pared for a blow.
And this is how the European absence and for coping with the read in at least one other large The US, alr
reacted to these enpitals
deci- immense volume of work that is force base at Prague church. Ilazuke in North West Kyushu
falling on the Treasury because Early reports salt there was no
of the dollar negotiatións. was directly in the storm's path. mention at any church so far of
ROME: Last month's typhoon, "D
The Vatican's decree is ex- One possibility that Mr. struck Kyushu, Honshu and'
the Vatican's excommunication
draw thousands
of Attice will himself tuke: responai | something positive and not just! way of South East Asia, India,| koku, taking more than 160 lives was disclosed last Wednesday.
vedieorce against Communists which pected to
Catholics waverers from the bility for some of this work. and destroying an estimated £4.-
by the It was understood on the high-waiting to be defeated Iringes of the Italian Communist The declaration said the govern- cons without, however, touching est authority that the
official Reds. 000,000 worth of
property and
Since the Communists took the agricultural lands.-United Press. Catholic priests by
ment gained the signatures
million-strong hard core statement meant precisely what
trl- endorse the Catholic main striking force.
cunning which provides the Communists' it said, and that if was not con- Shanghai-Nanking-Hanchow THE WEATHER fraud to
Leading any more serious develop-angle and launched a drive South- Action. The declaration con-
ment in the Chancellor & health. ward, there has been widespread tinued:
"We declare we stand (Continued on."Paga 3)
conviction in this refugee capital --Keuter.
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Interesting
Light On Far East Power Politics
.:
Baron von Weissacker, head of, port. The Germans rejected this the claim arid inslated that they in-
the bassador In Tokyo on July 28,
Washington, July 17. basis for negotiating peace the political department of Captured German Foreign with the hard pressed gov Office documents published ernment of Chiang Kai-shek. German Foreign Ministry, intended to maintain their
to the German Am-trailty. message by the State Department dis German Foreign Ministry and the 1937, said the continuation Communications: between closed today in detail Gor German Ambasadors In Japan Japanese action against | man efforts to mediate the and China showed that the Nazi will in the final analysis · drive Chinese Japanese war from government had two inslor rea the Chinese into the argus of
PHIL_Jachim July 1937 to January, 1938mone for attempting to bring udalo
Mbuite peaceful solution of the They revealed the failure of struggle. Open Ka
The
of
China
German Fore the German efforts when the LFT The Germans feared thing the files revealed that Japan, which Japanese, encouraged by their continuation of the Far Eastern had concluded in and
would 1: Fočen v besi pact with Clermany, capture of Nanking and other fightin military.
China into the arms of makstalkbu
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German mediators In Novem „boj- $936, alloited from Chiang Kal-shek his agreement to dia- ́¤Dus' paace'"with 'Japan.on baila which would have given autonomy
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The Youth Argosy is to fly by!
and the Middle East to Europe.--- Reuter.
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