CHINESE COMPLAIN
OF JAP. ATTACKS
INVADERS REPULSED NEAR TAITSANG
1
· JAPANESE CASUALTIES UP TO DATE
2,769
SHANGHAI, Mar. 9, 0.17 p.m.
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WHILE THE JAPANESE CONTINUE
STATE ALL IS QUIET ON THEIR FRONT, THE CHINESE CONTINUE TO "COMPLAIN OF JAPANESE ATTACKS.. THE LOCAL OFFICE OF THE NINETEENTH ARMY ISSUES A TELEGRAM RECEIVED MOM GENERAL CHIANG KUANO NAI, COMMANDER OF THE NINE- TEENTH ARMY, STATING THAT LAST EVENING THE JAPANESE STRONGLY ATTACKED THEIR LINES AT LUHOCHIAO, NEAR TAITSANG, AND WERE REPULSED. THE ATTACK WAS RENEWED THIS MONNING WAS NOT FORCED TO A DECISION.
BUT
ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT'
1.8% the
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] the British Minister in China, stat
SHANGHAI, Mar. 9.
ing that in accordance with the All is now quiet on the front"
Assembly's request, the British, westward of Shaughni,
United States, French and Italian Fourth Japanese Division to-daythorities at Shanghai are colla, completed the task of taking overbrating to sand Geneva daily, a the lines held by General Uyedi's joint telegram giving the Intest Ninth Division, which is rotuming available information regarding the to Shanghai for r
situation in the Shanghai neigh the Ninth Division which was rush.bourhood, ed to Shanghai when the Japanese The first report dated March 6 Marines found themselves unable gave the position of the Japanese to take Chape and had to have lines, and stated that cocasional
enforcements to avoid the possi-skirmishing was then continuing. bility of being overwhelmed by the Chinese forces,
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It
was
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The Fourteenth Division, which was recruited to war strength and which numbers about 20,000 strong, disembarked
Woosung March 7.
The Ninth Division which has bore the brunt of the fighting will wy
be glad to be relieved as of the offers and men aro ex- hausted.
JAPANESE CASUALTIES
SHANGHAI, Mar. 9.
A Jaganese War Office announce- ment reaching Shanghai declares that up to date they have suffered altogether 2,740 casualties in Man- churia and Shanghai, made up as follows:
Manchuria: wounded
iP
The Assembly continued. the general debate.on the various aspects of the question.
GENERAL DEBATE
CONCLUDED
LATER
The Assembly has concluded the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.
FAR EASTERN CRISIS
A BRIGHT SPOT DISCOVERED
League-U.S.A. Co-operation
(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH ARMY BARRACKS
NOT FIT FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS
Carlisle Quarters Infested With Rats
(Router's Special Servico.)
LONDON, Mar. D. The only bright spot in this miserable Far Eastern business is it has led to Britain and the United States working together and definite United States so operation with the Longue, anys the Yew Chronicle, adding that both these facts are important in any case and the future may easily give them importance at presont unsuspected.
The only place where the way LOWER INSURANCE RATES deen whose barracks were erected was net economising was at Aber- QUOTED
in 1789, the year of the French Revolusion. Now, bancks are now being constructed there.
THE LINDBERGHS THE NEW MANCHURIA
ORDEAL
THREAT TO BURN CHARLES JUNIOR
(Renter's Special Sorrico.)
NEW YORK, March 5. The crudhy of the latess threat of the kidnappers of Colonal Lind bergh's baby son- We shall burn the baby alive and kill him with sensational disclosure in connection. be no nearer solution. with the affair, which appears to
STATE
HENRY PU YI INSTALLED AS CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
JAPANESE ATTEND IN UNOFFICIAL CAPACITY
tea-inch knife is the latest MERELY A
MERELY A GROUP OF REBELS-NANKING OFFICIAL STATEMENT
(Tenovati #UTER'S AGENCY.] .....
LONDON, Mar. p. mates, Mr. Duff Cooper referred to In introducing the Army Esti- the many dopdorable army barracks in Britain and abroad,
The police reveal that they are Ho aidil vestigating the possibility that the troops stood quarters that some member of the Lindbergh subject. which were unfit for any British household was involved in the kid
These barracks included; happing. hundreds erected during the war was aroused by the fact that n fox Suspicion to this end through which na umbrolls might terrier dog, usually alert, gave no be poked:
warning that any prowlers wore
CHANGCHUN, Mar. 9.. about.
"A SIMPLE CEREMONY MARK- that because of the fare of public EX EMPEROR
Against this is set the submission ED THE INSTALLATION OF ity surrounding the famous airman AS
ESUAN TUNG and his doings, the infornu ar-
OHIEF EXECUTIVE OF easily be learned in advance by a STATE. FORTY-FIVE GUESTS rangements of his household might THE NEW MANCHURIAN
WERE PRESENT CLUDED LEADING OFFICIALS OF THE NEW FIFTEEN JAPANESE
through mining subsidence, while the barracks at Armagh had actu- ally collapsed.
Mare favourable views of the Shanghai situation are reflected in
He said the barracks at Carlisie the quotation of lower was risk were infested with rats; the burrtranger. rates and marine insurance. Mini-rooks in Malaya threatened to col The two men and the woman ar mum rates, covering goods from lapse, owing to white ants; those rested yesterday have proved that warehouse by Japanese steamer to at Pontalmet word threatened they knew nothing of the letter of warehouse at Shanghai ara reduced
Saturday demanding ransom money. 14 10/- per cont. from £1, while the rain on goods enrried on other national vessels, excluding Chi nese, are reduced to -, comparod with 10 Also the rates on churia risk to Japan, Korea and Man-..
vka Shanghai Are now halved:
war
BRITAIN'S YEAR OF OPPORTUNITY.
REMARKABLE RISE IN
STERLING
THE WAR OFFICE VOTE
13
TRIBUTE TO BRITISH FORCES IN SHANGHAI
(REUTER AND BRITISH WIRELESA.]
LONDON, Mar. 8, Everyone's attention has been xed upon the small detachment of (AUTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS.),
the British Army carrying out a grave responsibility in Shanghai.
Brigadier-General Fleming has LONDON, Mar. 8.
boen asked to show, not only the Foreigners are now beginning to scramble to get sterling, the conf-qualities of a soldier, but these of dence in the pound to-day being he has shown these qualities to a a diplomatist and a statesman, and markedly in contrast with the mis degree of which they might all be trust a short time ago.
proud.
The pound sterling took an up-
onural debate on the, Sino-Japan-ward leap to-day; jumping frac he had been informed by one re
es dispute and has appointed a Drafting Committee to co-ordinate the resolutions and to present one Resolution to the Assembly, Ib will probably be submitted On Thursday.
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LABOUR SITUATION IMPROVING
CHANGHAI, Mar. 9. The labour situation here has been considerably alleviated with 817 the re-opening of factories in the past few days, More factories are expected to resume work in the near future.
377 killed,
Shanghai: 188 killed, 43
wounded!
ARSENAL EQUIPMENT
REMOVED
SHANGHAI, MArch 9. It is quiet on all the fronte. A Japanese aeroplane reconnaitred In the Long Han area at 7.30 thie morning.
Ono brain consisting of 21 was gons londed with machinery of the Kiangwan Arsenal left for Hang
chow.
JAPAN WILL "NOT WITHDRAW
43..
RECRIMINATIONS
WHY DID CHIANG KAI "SHEK NOT REINFORCE THE
19th ARMY?
CANTON, Mar. 9:
Offcials and public bodies here
Lion over eightpencs in value in terms of United States gold dollars since the end of November. and its viluo now is the highest
cently returned from the Far East, As regards the troops themstivos,
that five years ago there was anti- British feeling in China,
A further riso is expected, pot
Now this bad apparently disap- only in New York, but against all peared, which be attributed largely to the behaviour of the troops, who other leading currencies on the exhad shown themselves the best am- change market.
Big Jumpe
In New York, from the over- night level of 0.534, the £ shot up to 3.71, bringing it to approx imately 13/3 (against par). This compares with 14/1 three weeks" 450.
In Montreal. the £ is quoted at 4.30, its value being 10/10 as against 10/4 thres weeks ago.
In Paris, the 2 rose from 90 on Monday to 944, giving a value of 15/2 In Amsterdam the rise was from 8.79 to 9.24, the new value being 10/21.
Gold Prices Fall.
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bassadors of poace.
He felt aura that the whole House would join in sending a message of goodwill and congratulations to the small detachment which had so nobly upheld the gauss of peace and the honour of Britain.
Thus Mr. Duff Cooper, the Fin- ancial Secretary to the War Office, in introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons to-day,
£3 MILLIONS SAVING.
The Estimates showed, he said,
VIE
that the amount naked for £36,489,000, a saving of E442,000 on the sum voted last year,
This reduction was achieved by This remarkable recovery auto- matically forced down the London sion of many essential Army sor drastic economies and the suspen price of gold, which is now 118-vices. per ounce, as compared with 120/10 on February 8.
was 27/6. ».
"Year of Danger Fassed,"
next year,
One economy of £1,000,000 was obtainable today is now 2-where- training, a useful saving, but this The best offer for gold sovereigneterritorial Army's annual camp obtained by the cancelling of the
king authorities, for failure to dia- are strongly criticising the Non-as the ruling price a fornight age it was felt could not he repeated patch reinforcements to the 19th Route Army, which has been
Mr. Duff Cooper recalled that his The Chancellor of the Exche-labnur predecessor at the War obliged ta retreat more than quer, Mr, Neville Chamberinin, ad. Office, in presenting the Estimates dressing & Unionist meeting to-day, last year, had stated that economies twenty kilometres and to abandon said he looked upon 1931 as Eng had been carried to the utmost prac Shanghai and Wobsung to General land's year of danger and 1832 as tical limit. Nevertheless the army
England's year of opportunity. Shira.
vote had been reduced to meet the Few could fail to be amazed at special call for economy by a saving It was pointed out that Japan the change of affairs which had of 3 millions. This year's anti- has mobilised about 100,000 mol- taken place in the national out-mates must, therefore, not be taken diers to take Shanghai, which was They were not, however, yet out of estimates could be expected to con look during the last six months. SHANGHAI, Mar. 2.
as a standard to which the future Instructions have been sent to defended by the 16th Route Army the wood. They must carry on
form. Mr. Sato at Geneva to take up the and two" divisions from Nanking.little longer and go forward with
Estimated. Passed, matter of the Chinese attitude on The Chinese forces number about expansion of trade and prosperity. confidence in the hope of a great
LONDON, March 8, The House the question of the withdrawal of 40,000, and Nanking is accused of
of Commons has haring failed to send more troops
agreed to the Army Estimates. the Japanese troops, emphasising to Shanghai.
"Mr. Duff Cooper, referring to the that not only are the Chinese act-In his weekly review of affairs,
favourableness of recruiting, said ing contrary to the League reablu- Dr. O. C. Wu, of the South-West
that qualified judges were of the opinion that events tion in rofusing an unconditional Political Council, said that Nan-
in Shanghai had encouraged recruiting to a con. siderable extent,
UNTIL ARMISTICE IS ASSURED
It is, of course, impossible, states the Tokyo Government, for the Japanese to consider withdiawal until L complete cessation of hostilities is assured.
(1
BRITISH FINANCIAL
ایدر
STRENGTH
NEW MALAYA TIN COMBINE
B.A.T, INVESTMENT CORPORATION
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
A Decoy,
atitute a serious effense against the laws of China," says a Foreig Office statement issued today.
Declaring that Manchuria is part of China, it asserts that they
ment are not regardable as having leaders in the independence move-
they are merely a group of rebels. AND IN- established a rival government.
STATE AND
AN OLD KIRIN TROOPS ON
WAR PATH
IN
UNOFFICIAL CAPACITY.
COUNT UCHIDA, PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY, WHO ATTENDED
HARDIN, Mar. According to Japanese informa tion, a large force of old Kirinitas
A trooper resembling Colonel Lindbergh has been sent out as a decoy in order to secure the arrest of the authors of the letter.
The police at Minneapolis have been informed that an unsigned AIS THE. REPRESENTATIVE telegram has been sent to Col. OF THE S.M.3., DELIVERED are preparing to cut the Railway a Lindbergh advising him to Беляе investigations through direct.
Chiengo
The telegram added: "The baby so far is fair and doing good."
"ANTI-ITALIAN OUTRAGES
ANARCHIST LITERATURE DISCOVERED IN CHICAGO
(Reuter's Special Service.)
CHICAGO, Mar. 0. Two trunks, full of dynamite, nitro-glycerine and anarchist litera
who is believed largely to have ture, were seized by the police in a house of an alleged anarchist, been responsible for the wave of anti-Italian bomb outrages, last) December,
KING HOLDS CIVIL LEVEE
CHEERED BY LARGE CROWD
•
[BRITIER WIRELESS BERVICE.];
RUGBY, Mar. 8.. Attended by escort of the Household Cavalry, the Sovereign's the King to-day drove from Buck ingham Palace to St. James' Palace and held the first civil leves of the YesT.
hed the route along the Mall and Despite the rain, a large crowd'
cheered the King as he drove by.
يس
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD
BETTER
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVI.]
from Cornwall this week-end and
RUGBY, Mar. 8. The Prime Minister is returning
hopes to attend the House of Commons on Monday.
SIAMESE PRINCE IN
+
LONDON
LUNCHEON WITH KING AND QUEEN,
¿THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The
LONDON, Mar. 8. Siamese Royal visitor, Prince Chuls Chakrabong, had hmcheon with Their Majcaties the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace to-day,
JAPAN'S
POLITICAL
ASSASSINATIONS
IMPORTANT DEVELOP- MENTS EXPECTED
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
king has about two million soldiers BUDGET NEARLY BALANCED armistice, but they are attempting and he wondered why more troops to put the cart before the horse, were not sent to strengthen the [ADITION WIRELESS SERVICE.) as they are demanding that the members of the Kuomintang and 40,000 defenders of Shanghai. All Japanese withdrawal must precedo the whole people of China should
Rucny, Mar. 8. Revenue returns for the week the armistice.
hold an enquiry as to why the ending, March 6 indicate that re- Government noglected to send venue continues to come in antising- more men to defend Shanghai. orily and that the economies fore- The Canton office of the Kuo-casted in the revised Budget of last mintang in America issued a cir- September will be realised. cular telegram denouncing General
TOKYO, Nar. 8.- The total revenue received into In the meantime, Mr. Shigemitsu Chiang Kai Shek for being afraid the Exchequer during the week
Following a Police examination has been instructed to renew his of the Japanese invaders and being amounted to £28.0 miliona and ex-
of two unnamed induential re/| actionary extremists, who: are be efforts in Shanghai to arrange an responsible for the loss of Bhang-pendilure to £172 millions, leaving
LONDON, 'Mar. 8. lieved to have been the wire-pullers armistice as a preliminary to athai
surplus of £9.4 millions' and re- The British-American Tin Cor behind the assassine of Inouye and round table conference.
The South-West Foreign Affairs ducing the deficit from £46.4 mil porntion has decided to form the Takamadan, Kurosawa, one of the Committee, in a statement in the lions to £37 millions. This is £21 London Tin Investment Corpora- acher three youths who pledged to Press, declared that the members millions less than the deficit on the tion, with a capital of approximate. remove prominent Japanese who of the Kuomintang C.E.C. and same day of last year.
ly one C.B.C. in Canton and Shanghai
million sterling in ten they considered were imperilling There now remain three and a shilling shares, **
Jaman, has surrendered to the havo urged Nanking to concentrate half-weeks-in-which-to-secure-a The nesets will consist-of-the Palica (LROTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS.) all available for to defend balanced Budget, and there some lending Malayan tin shares. Even discounting the sumtioned Shanghai, as the Japanese troops every reasm to expect that this. The present: shareholders of the rumours-et-present-current, done LONDON, Mar. 8: Taro comung in grent numbers. For will be accomplished. Income Tax British-American Win Corporation observers would not be surprised if Sir John Simon, in the Longue failing to hoed this waming, Nan requires only £17 millions and the will have a half share the com Assembly at Geneva to-day, read a cing is held responsible for the aurtax £11 millions to secure the pany, which will be double the size runner of important political deve- the investigations prove the fore. message from Sir Mileë Lampson, consequences-Central Press.
estimate.
of the present organisation, of lopments
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
MEETING
AD
Imisipo, where there is only a small garrison of Japanese troops, ing order to isolate and attack General
„CONGRATULATONY DRESS ON BEHALF OF THE GUESTS, WHILE A DESCRUP- TION OF THE CEREMONY Amano's Brigade'at Ninguta. It is WAS BROADCAST TO JAPAN reported that 3,000 mounted old
· AS «JOURNALISTS WERE NOT | Kirinites are operating in the Tao- PERMITTED TO ATTEND.
Inichao district, and the inhabi taate there are terrorised... "MERELY A GROUP OF REBELS"
NANKING, Mar. 9. The recent ridicnious activities of Henry Fu Yt and others con-
SOVIET WARNING
TO?
READY TO PRESERVE INTERESTS IN. FAR EAST
Harbin is "being decorated far the inaugural ceremonies on March 9. 10, and 1 Ma Chan-shan is leaving to-day for Changchuan to attend the ceremonies,
the President of the Central Exe outive Committee of the U.S.8.3.
But," he added, "simultaneouss ly, we cannot and we shall not be indifferent towards the actions of capitalist countries.
Fight to
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
"If any capital State menacer the vital interests of our people, the Moscow, Mar. 8.
whole country will say, Wo will The proservation of peace by all fight to the end. The whole coun our entire policy towards events ingle so that there will be less e means is the first basic condition of try must be prepared for this strug the Far East, declared M. Kalinin, xicty to attack us."
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