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HONG KONG DAILY. PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1933.
CHINESE STILL HOLD KUPEIKOW
JAPANESE REPULSED AT
HSIFENGKOW
Many Field Guns And Quantity Of Ammunition Captured
HEAVY CASUALTIES INFLICTED
ON
ENEMY
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PEIPING, March 13.
CHINESE oficial reports speak of a big victory won by Sung
Cheh Yung's troops over Japanese forces at Heilengkow. The Chinese claim to have inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and that they captured many field guns and large quantities of ammunition,
ATTACK ON HSIFENGKOW RESISTED
NANKANG, March 13.
While Chinese authorities admit that the Kupeikow situation is Bost critical, they loslst that up til 11. this morning Chinese troops were still holding the im portant pass.
CHIANG KAI SHEK AT PAQTINGFU
PEIFING, March 12, General Chiang Kai Shek arrived in Paotinghu last night. He was accompanied by Dr. Lo Wen Kan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. LATER.
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CHINESE FLYING CORPS
JAPANESE WATCHING
CAREFULLY
JEHOL PROVINCE
Isolated But Well Peopled
WHY JAPAN WANTS TO TAKE IT
DANZIG-POLISH INCIDENT
BITTER FEELING IN GERMANY-
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many.
BERLIN, March 12.
M.C.C. VERSUS ́S, AUSTRALIA'
VISITORS PUT UP GOOD SCORE
(THROBIL}} BROTER'S AGENCY.]
ADELAIDE, March 13.
TERRITORIAL CAMPS
THE fresh Danzig-l'olish incident, THE M.C.C already in a strong which is causing deep concern position, st the close of play in European chancellories, hus re- vived anti-Polish feeling in Gerland 259 not out, Voce 23 not out. were 371 for 8 Jardino 65, Ley. The incident has excited Leyland hit eighteen four's. Mukden-If the Japanese add bitter cominent in Berlin. Johol to the territories of Man-
The Polish Government, it is dent state Japan has created in Danzig Sonate against light aero chukuo the area of the "indepen-earned, lodged a protest with the Manchuria will have been expand planes from the Danzig Flying Club ed by 60,550 square miles and its lying over the Westerplatte and population increased about 4,070,000. demanding the prohibition of such
Jehol covers a territory only a flights. little less than the six Now. Eng.
The Senate refused to comply on laud states, which total 81,976 the ground that the Westerplatte square miles. Without Jehol the is Danzig territory and that the area of Manchukuo would beplanes have a perfect right to fly 309,831 square miles. With this dis over. puted province included the new state spreads over 400,381 squar miles, little larger than the com- bined area of coutinental France, Germany, Belgium Denmark and Austrin.
These figuras are compiled by the research department of the Japan eso South Manchuria Railway, which has more accurate informa tion on this part of the world than any other agency.
According to this authority the population of Manchuria, includ ing Jehol, in 1930 was 84,234,880; without Jehol, 29,664,980. Popula tion figures have not changed great ly since 1930.
According to a Peiping dispatch the dahi says that since the re- Fairly Well Populated. cent appearance of Chinese taili. Many writers have referred to tory planes over Shanhaikwan for Johol as a semi-desert, a sparsely recomoitring purposes, inquiries peopled territory, but this is truc have been made by Japanese in only by comparison with the teem Peiping, which revealed the facting areas of Japan or China. It that the Chinese troops have a
is off the world highways and may secret flying corps commanded by be classed as backward, out 16 sup- an American and with
ports 77 inhabitants to the square several Russian pilots. It has only a few milo, more than any American plance, but these machines have state west of the Mississippi River. been found to be engaged in oc- The
It is learned General Chiang is not coming to Peiping immediately but may stay in Paotingfu for somecasional connoitring work.
time.
SUCCESSFUL RESISTANCE
NANKING, March 13. General Sung Cheh Yuan has reported to the Goremment that his troops have successfully reaist- ed the Japanese stick on Haifeng- kow.
A telegram from General Sun Tien Ting states that his troops had only, thirty, casks of water left, buz are still fighting near Chifeng and Weichan.
SURPRISE FOR AFRICAN ZOO.
Puff-Adder Lays 22 Eggs
THE RIDDLE AND A
-SOLUTION
Jeho formerly was largely pas- ture land, the range of nomadic dispatch adds that the Jane Mongol tribes, but since the begin military authorities at Peiping anding of the twentieth century the Tientsin are paying close attention to the activity of this flying corps,
WAR SCARE IN. FRANCE
SHOCK FOR THE MEN OF BLOIS
Paris, Feb. 14-Inhabitants of the village of Naveil-en-Vendômois, near Blois, received an unpleasant shock Fast week. Tho spread that all the able men in the place were about to be mobilised
for war.
Tumkur
has pushed the Mongols and their surge of Chinese farmer immigrants herds to the north and west and converted southern Jehal into farm. lands much like those found in the provinces immediately south of the Great Wall,, This comparatively Dew Chineso population lives most- ly in small rural hamlets, but of these there are thousands.
-
Off the Beaten Track, Lying off the main routes of trade and travel, Jeho boasts few cities, Largest in the capital, Jehol, or Cengteh, principal co jective of the Japanese drive, with approximately 53,000 population.
General Tang Ya Lin, and the cen- This was the seat of the Governor, tro of his flourishing opium.com- merco. Otherwise it is a decaying city, with most of the glories it knew when it was the summer re sidence of the magnificent Manchu emperors of China crumbling into ruins.
The Mayor, it appears, received a communication from the military authorities instructing him what measures he was to take in his commune for mobilisation in the event of war. Citizens eligible for military service were to hold them- There was a time when it earn "selves ready to report, the instruc-ed the title of the "Fontainebleau tions stated, immediately the or- of China." Travellers of the eigh- der to do so was posted on the teenth century doubted whether the walls of the Town Hall by gen- Fontainebleau of Louis XIV, "L The Johannesburg Zoo authori-darmes from Blois, The Mayor or Rie Scleil," could boast more be at the moment greatly dored his garde champêtre, "# auty, pomp or splendour than Jeno perturbed by one of those curious kind of keeper who perform when it sheltered the great Emperor idiosyncratice of nature. The puff multifarios duties in a French Chien Lung when he came north- adder has laid twenty-two eggs: village, to communicate the in. from his capital at Peiping in th The officials declare that puff-ad-structions to the population with late summer for the hunting. ders are not supposed to lay eggs,
out delay. Possibly in doing so for the young aro born fully de- the Mayor failed to conceal the
eloped.
alarm which he himself felt.
ties are
Ad visitor to the snake park looked into one of the glass cages he saw what he took to be a num ber of berries. He then drew the attention of the keeper, and laugh ingly asked him whether he fed the snakes on gooseberries.
At any rate, when the "garde champêtre "
BOW two gendarmes serive from Blois a tow hours later he jumped to the conclusion that they had come to post the general mobilisation order, and in a few hours everyone in Navell was in a The result was that the keeper Mayor is still assuring his fellow
state bordering on panie. The called the curator. The berries oitizens that war were found to be eggs; and now everyone, including the snake, who left her eggs scattered all over the compartiment, are wondering how it happened.
Commenting on this, our Zoo correspondent writes: aakes are either oviparous or ovo-viviparous, SWO modes of parturition which bear no relation to their natural affiuities: The members of the Viper family, to which the puff, ad- der belongs, are usually ovo viviparoua, ie, the eggs are re tained within the body until the young are about to emerge.
declared, and that the gendarmes
has not hec were simply making a tour of in- pection.
RADIUM IN WEARDALE
SCIENTIST VICAR CLAIMS
DISCOVERY
Great interest has been aroused in Weardale by the claim made by the Rev. T. H. E. O. Espin, The present instance, in which a the local scientist, who is Vicar of puff adder is stated to have laid Tow Lay, that he has definitely twenty-two eggs when living young determined the presence of radium should have been produced, would in the dale. Mr. Espin made the appear to be onc of prematuro announcement and gave details of birth. It would be probably his investigations at the Stanhope found that the eggs were enclosed Brewster Sessions, of which he is in thin gelatinous envelopes and chairman," not provided with stout parch montlike shells as seen in normal
Next in size is Chchfeng (The Red Peak), the principal mart of trade, almost in the centre of the about 37,500. provinca, boasting a population of During the past twenty years nearly all the enter prisers, both Chinese and Japanese, who planned railroads for Jebol in tended to make Chehfeng the trans. portation hub of the province just as to-day it is the centre of the which are the province's only high. network of primitive dirt roads
ways,
Jehol opened by the Chinese gov
Chihfeng is the only town in
ernment to foreign residence and trade, and before the Manchurian conflict began in September, 1931, Удрал maintained & consufat,
there.
Von Neurath Statement. Typical of German feeling as a result of the incident, coupled with the signs of hostility to the Nazi regime, is a message address ed to the East Hanseatic Club at Hamburg by Baron von Neurath, the Gerinan Foreign Minister, in weighing against the Treaty of Versailles.
Von Neurath declares that there is still a tendency to form a united anti-German
front. The
world must choose. Either Germany wont her own way to justice and freedom and became again a bulwark of peace in Europe or Europe would fotter into the abyss.
SILVER MARKET
LONDON PRICES
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, March 13. FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVER QUOTATIONS ON THE LONDON MARKET, TO-DAY:
Mar. 13 Mar. 11 SPOT
174 181 FORWARD ..... 17.15/16 18.5/16
NAZI TROOPS
ACTIVE
PENETRATE DEMILITARISED
ZONE
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BERLIN, March 13. THE Nazis penetration into the demilitarised zone, which has alarmed France, has been extend and Cologne, where Nazi, troops ed by the occupation of Epeyer took possession of the Rathaus.. has been superseded by the Nari, The Chief Burgomaster, Adenauer, Riese,
IN HONG KONG TO-DAY
FINE TO CLOUDY
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, IBGUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY TA 5.10 P.M., STATED:-
AN ANTICYCLONE COVERS N. CHINA AND THE YELLOW SPA. FRESH MONSOON WILL PREVAIL OYER THE CHINA COAST AND THE CHINA SEA.
FORECAST: N.E. FRESH; FINE.
WINDS,
WE NOW SHUT OUR EARS!
NATURE'S BARRIERS AGAINST NOISE
Human beings are slowly de- veloping invisible car flaps."
"
Many Small Towns, After Chihfeng rank two cities of about 30,000 each, Chaoyang, near the eastern border and Ping-
This, according to a specialistat chuan, forty miles east of Jehol, the Central London Throat, Nose Lingayen, on the road between and Ear Hospital, is Nature's way Chaoyang and Pingchuan, has a
of excluding " from our hearing population of about 20,000.
the ever-present diu of cars, tier, since January 1 the concen
Kailu, near the northern fron gramophones, and wireless sots. tration entre
In a sense, we are learning to Chinese troops of varying degrers
for about 40,000 shut our ears as wo shut our eyes, of regularity and discipline, has dealer to-day, because there is so "I think we are psychologically only 6,000 normal population, large much unpleasant Hound and go ly Mongol. It was the first to fall inuch unpleasant or useless talk in to the northern invading column, the world that we shut our ars mixed Japanese and Manchukue to it," the specialist explained troops. The only other town of any "We have a power not only al size in Johol is Linusi, in the north bearing, but ofsaulting doors it west, with 7,000.
- our brain. Although, wo, cannot
He states that exhaustive tests of the water from many ama wells enakó eggs.
in the district, carried out with oviparous. Thus the South Ameri and the special apparatus at the
A few finery lesistance of Professor Carti The figures for Jahol City popu2 sabut urgentang visible Iations are those of the Japanese earlids, we can--and do put down can-Bushmaster. Lachesis Mutut, the Armstrong College, Newcastle, War Officer and probably are near barriers along the hearing track in Indo-Malayan viper, Lacheals mon- have established that the waterly correct The ticole, and the South Africa from the Bradley Burn well at
sama authority the brain night viper, Causus rhombeatus all | Wolsingham is, radioactive.
estimates that fully three-fourths of the population of Iny eggs
provincere Chinese. The In the case of the Bushmaster,
doubt," he de remaining fourth is made up this anako incubates its eggs by clares, that there is radium in of Mongol tribes, including two of coiling round them. They are laid, Weardale, although up to the pre- the strongest of the Mongol "Lea In batches of a dozen or so, in the sent it has only revealed a pre-ghes, the Chaota and Chozatu, of deep holes excavated and inhabit. semo in small quantities."
"There is 10
Mental "Play." the "This barrier which we put up against noise of all kinds acts na a mental earfa, though, of course, it is psychological and invisible.
"At one time nao, like other animais, was dependent on the quickness of his sense of hearing for the preservation of his life.
(Continued on west Column)
Manchus and of chammedan tribes ed by the armadillo and other. The vicar is to continue his that hailed originally from the burrowing animals,
Chinese Turkestan region. researches.
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INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES
Japan's Keen Interest
་
TO ADVERTISE CEYLON
The proposal to make such
RS. 10,000 VOTE PROPOS FOR PUBLICITY COMMITY Osaka, Juan (By Mail)-Japan's interest in the Philippine independ- Colombo.-It is leapeds ency question is evidenced by Executive Committee of the series of articles published in the Industry and Commerce, Oku Mainichi, which riddle the last meeting, decided by a majo ternis offered the Filipinos by the to recommend to ang Batay staff member, follows another on United States Congress.
The series by an identified
to grant a sum o rupees to the Ceylon Our Neighbours in the South," wards its expenses in
Committee ILE a contributi and is published in the English edition of the newspaper.
Ceylon abroad. "The Mainichi and the Osaka Asuhi are the two largest and most influential grant was mado last year, anda £000,000 PROVISION MADE BY papers in Japan,
some discussion, the Executive WAR OFFICE
The articles are under such head-mittee appointed a sub-Commit ings 4s "America Reveals Her to report on the subject Londen, Feb. 14.-The Financial self, Dependent Independence," The sub-Committee, it is unde Secretary to the War Office. Mr. "Ignominious Duff Cooper, informed the House
Neutrality," an stood, recently recommended "At the Crossroads." The foreword grant of ten thousand rupees to of Commons that the Government
follows:-
Ceylon Publicity Committee, bad decided to inclulo in the Army "If the Hawos-Cutting compro-. Estimates for 1933 a sum of money mise bill failed to receive an en Committee, it is learned, was co The recommendation of the su to cover the provision of the northusiastic recaption in the Philip sidered at the last meeting of th mal 15 days Territorial camps.pines, such as would appear to have Executive Committee which ar (Ministerial cheers.)
been expected by Americans, this proved it, Mr. A. E. Goonesinh indicated in no way indifference and Mr. D. P. Jayasuriya dissent toward the bill on the part of the ing on the ground that the g Filipinos. The bill was of the would only help certain pri Teatest importance in regard to commercial undertakings n their national life hereafter and lombo and as a protest against the Filipinos wanted first to make treatment meted out to Ceylones sure of its portent. The coolness of traders in the Colombo Harbour the Filipinos toward the bill should not be accepted as a sign that they -do not want independence, as Wash- it should on the contrury be taken ington is reported to believe, but
as proof of the intense soriousness bill and the consequences of its of the Filipinos in weighing the practical application.
Mr. Duff Cooper added that a recruiting campaign was contem. plated, and he hoped a review of the Territorial Army would be held in the summer. (Ministerial
Mr. Maxton inquired the amount of financial provision to be made, and Mr. Cooper replied that it was approximately £000,000.
cheers.)
money would not be better spent in Mr. Will Thorne asked if this
connection with building,
Mr. Duff Cooner replied that he did not agree that it would.
TELEGRAPH LINE IN
SHENSI
TO ASSIST RAILWAY ENGINEERS.
NANKING, March 0. Permission has been granted to the Engineering Division of the Lung-Has Railway Administration by the Ministry of Railways for the laying of a telegraph line between Tungkwan and Sian, provincial capital of Shenai. This facility is provided to assist the engineering operations now in progress for the construction of the western exten- sign of the railway from Tungkwan, The telegraph line will follow the course of the Wei River.-Kuo Min.
"That necessitated that hearing should be developed to its most acute degree Life, however, has ceased to be threatened in this way, and so we have ceased to use our hearing in the watchful way that we should if danger and death was continually at hand."
Why
SHAW WANTS SUN
FOR REST OF HIS DAYS.
straw-coloured
oak
"The Filipinos were undoubtedly Loudon, Feb, 11.-While Bernard surprised when the bill was pre- Shaw is globe-trotting, his famous sented to them, because of the ugli- dat in Whitehall Court is in the ness of its features and because of possession of interior decorators its being full of holes like a Swiss He is having his rooms lined cheese, with all its advantages. for with the the United States and none for panelling which is now the vogne the Philippines: The Filipino in America. G.B.S. has his own lenders have been voicing their ideas; and insists on their. I
being views on its merits, if any, and its carried out. shortcomings, of which the bill con- tains too many, and discussion is Mr. Shaw does not keep many still going on with touching sin-secrets from his public, but is said cority and frankness..
by one who knows him that he has "There are Filipino leaders who announce, though he has occasional
ún ambition which he does not favour the acceptance of the bill, ly hinted at it. It is that he wants while there are others who urge its to live to he a hundred. rejection. Those who favour its ac ceptance do so,
because the bill In future G.B.S. is likely to
is neceptable, but because they have spend each winter out of England slim hope of obtaining better. and his present world trip is du Those who oppose the bill are doing to bis desire to live in the sun for sd by way of demanding something the rest of his days, better, anxious as they are to be independent at the earliest possible
date. The acceptance and rejection the Americans justified, insforsing, in this case do not represent two this Hawes Cutting comproc is bij entirely divergent viowe; they ex- press really one opinion on the bill study, brief as it is, an outsider.
on the Filipinos? In the fol -dissatisfaction.
(therefore in a position to mako im partial observations, Tree from re judice) presents his qiews on Us momentous issue"
"Are the Filipinos seeking some thing more, than their due, Are (Continued on next colume.)
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