MASON'S
DELICIOUS
O.K.
SAUCE.
TO-DAY'S WEATHER PORECAST -South Winds, «Moderate; Cloudy. -Shower
Hongkong Daily Press.
Registered as a 'Newspaper at the General
Post Office in the United Kingdom.
ESTABLISHED 1857
Court
No. 34642. CAPƒ**= ƑÆ✯T HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1937. #Яd 日肆拾月孀年裝卅佰玖仟登英 Price
General Manage
IF YOU DEPEND
LOT UPON YOUR
GLASSES
then you
cannot afford to be with--
out A. SPARE PAIR.
Let N. Lazarus. Optician
Pedder Streat
advise you.
Single Copy, 10 cts
Per Month. $3.
UNITY AMONGST CHINA'S LEADERS
MERCURIAL QUEZON AS OPEN AS AN OYSTER!
The Interview Was Rather One-Sided
WHAT THE PResident told a reporter
Mercurial Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, harmonised doftly with the colour- scheme of his sulte aboard the Dollar Uner "President Hoover" when he received me in puce priamas last night shortly after the ship tied-up.
He looked the picture of good health and good fellowship, and his sitting-room reflected the mood of the man in its careless' yet purposeful disarray.
On a pink covered settee was a huge dictionary open'at the page whereon was the word "humidity." The President indicated that ne had his own Ideas as to the mean- Ing of that word, but he had been curious to find out just how nicely: it was interpreted in the book of words in case somebody asked him to give an official statement on it some day.
Manuel Quezon was never stil " for one solitary moment through- out this "interview." He curled himself up in his chair. He untwined himself. He moved his Anely-cast hands with the deftness of a plastic surgeon, and the ex- pressiveness of his eyebrows would have made Géorge Robey go green with envy.
And this was the "interview," PRESIDENT: I'm very pleased to meet you. Take a seat.
ME: Have you had a good trip?
"
PRESIDENT: Yes, thanks. It's been Ane..
ME: Have you any statement to make?
PRESIDENT: No. (The 'ege- brows worked over-time kere).
ME: Surely there must be some- thing you'd like to say?
PRESIDENT: Bure! (The hands spread-eagled here).
ME: How about a line on the
Sino-Japanese trouble?
PRESIDENT: No. (The legs went into a fold. here).
ME: Then give me a lead on sugar.
PRESIDENT: Not yet. (He show- ed his teeth here),
ME: Well, how about something. "on the Independence question?
PRESIDENT: No. (Upwent those eyebrows indicating that what he meant to say was. "Really, now, is independence a 'ques- tion' "?>
+
(Continued on Page 9.) -
His Excellency Admiral Sir Charles Little, K.0.B., Comman- der-in-Chief, China Station, whose flagship, H.M.S. Cumberland,
is due in Shanghai to-day.
THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-11/16 T.T. ON LONDON: 1a. 2.13/164.
Loadon Silver Market
(From Our Own Correspondent) London, August 13.
CAR IN SLIGHT MISHAP
JAPANESE
BOMBARD JUKONG WHARF
YANGTSZE RIVER CLOSED TO NAVIGATION
FINE RESISTANCE BY CHINESE
TROOPS
SHANGHAI, AUGUST 13.
. THOUSANDS OF HOMELESS CHINESE REFUGEES ARE CAMPING IN THE STREETS OF THE SETTLEMENT. THE BUND, WITH HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS DUNGAN AND DANAE WITHIN A STONE'S THROW, BEING ESPECIALLY POPULAR AS THE WARSHIPS ARE GIVING. AN ADDITIONAL
·SENSE OF SECURITY, THE CHINESE FORCES IN SHANGHAI AEE COMMANDED BY CHANG CHIЯ- TSUNG WHOSE 88TH DIVISION PARTICIPATED IN THE 1932 HOSTILITIES. THE 87TH DIVISION IS ALSO UNDER HIS COMMAND AND IS RUSHING TO SHANGHAI WHERE FURTHER CHINESE 'FORCES ARE PREPARED TO COME. MUCH EXCITEMENT WAS CAUSED WHEN A PLANE LANDED IN THE RACE COURSE IN THE HEART OF THE SETTLEMENT BUT THIS TURNED OUT TO BE OWNED BY AN AMERICAN WHO HAD FLOWN IT FROM THE LUNGHUA AERODROME FOR SAFETY. "If facilities are given by the International Settlement to the Japanese forces, the Chinese will act accordingly," said the spokesman of the Chinese forces in Shanghai when interviewed by Reuter However, he emphasised the fact that the Chinesos Unternment were always ready to afford adequate protection for foreign life and properly in the Salement. He declared that the Chinese were un' the eve of war which they were still hoping to avokt. The Chinese did not want war in Shanghai or elsewhere, but the Japanese are pressing them hard. ✨
JAPANESE PROLOGUE TO "PEACE"
Is There No Limit To Their Ambitions?
We are indebted to Mr. Sim Khin Lin for the following article very enlightening survey of Sino-Japanese relations, extending over a period of sixty-sial years,
In a covering letter Mr. Sím says “I shall be glad to give what- ever little aid I can in your campaign for justice and peace against brutal aggression and arbitary force."
THE JAPANESE PROLOGUE TO PEACE IN CHINA IS A SERIES. OF ATTACKS AND ENCROACHMENTS ON CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY SPHEAD OVER A PERIOD OF SIXTY-SIX YEARS." THE INTENTION BEHIND WORDS MAY BE “DOUBTED, BUT THERE IS NO DENYING THE INTENTION BEHIND- EVENTS WHICH ARE SOAKED WITH THE REALITY OF HUMAN Sİ BLOOD.
Asked if the Chinese forces in the Shanghai area had the full support of Nanking the spokes man replied that there was no question about this. He opined that if hostilities broke out it would be far more serious than in 1932. The spokesman emphasised the full unity between the National and * Provincial leaders in the policy the Central Government were pursuing.
Shengbat: A Japanese warship is bombarding and gradually destroying the newly-built Ave- million-dollar Jukong Wharf halfway between Shanghai and Woosung.
The Jutong Wharf is aflame. The Japanese artillery in Hongkew Park have now begun shelling the Chinese positions near the North Station with the Chinese replying brisky. Meanwhile it, is re- ported that the Chinese have launched an attack on the Japanese cotton mills situated in the north east corner of the International Settlement near the riverfront..
A Britisher and his wife, who were motoring along the waterfront, suddenly heard an explosion when they realised that a Japanese destroyer was shelling Jukong Wharf. A moment later they.. heard a splutter of machine gun bullets flying dangerously near the car The couple jumped from the car and dashed to the grassy river bank where, lying dat. they watched, through binoculars, the. steady bombardment of the whart for half-an-hour. Later, when darkness was complete, they ran back to the car and hurriedly left for the International Bettlement,
LEGACY OF FIRST
DAY'S HOSTILITIES
J
Shanghai: Hundreds gathered
on the roofs of the skyscrapers in the International Settlement and watched the Games of four big fires, the legacy of the first day's serious warfare in this region. It started in the afternoon in the „neighbourhood" of, the Japanese barracks in Hongkew Park when snipers fired at the Japanese from the roof of a building. The Chin- ese afterwards attacked the bar- racks with trench-mortars and the Japanese replied with machine- guns and bombs.
FUSILIERS FOR SHANGHAI
Command
It is learned from Headquarters here that the" 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusi- liers, under the command of Lt- Col. D. M. Barchard, are leaving for Shanghai by the Blue Funnel liner, Maron, at 6 p.m. to-dky,
BRITISH_FLAGSHIP DỤE
IN SHANGHAI '· Shanghai: The Chinese author!- ties lodged a protest to the Japanese Consul General against the Japan- ese invasion of Chinese territory " this morning.
JAPANESE LEAVE SWATOW Bwatow: The withdrawal of the Japanese in this port is now com- pleted and before his departure the Japanese Consul In Swatow entrusted the Chinese authorities with the protection of the Consu late. There are now about 70 city and there is a Formosans who are still in this Japanese cruiser lying outside the harbour Da-Dao.
CUBAN CHINESE HELP.
Nanking: A sum or" $5,000 has been received by the National Treasury * from the Chinese, na- tionals in Cuba as contribution to the War Fund against the Japanese. Da-Dio,
MOHAMMEDANS TO FIGHT Nanking: Mr. Ting Hal-chips representative of Major-General
i
The first act began in 1811 when Japan forced. China to renourice suzerainty over the Lanchhu Islands, which she, however, annexed in 1879. The next prize was Korea. In 1876, Japanese troops landëd Korea under the pretext of liberating the Korean people from Chinese Influence. Incidents were adroitly managed under the cover of Japanese claims to culminate in the Sino-Japanese War at the end of which China was forced to recognize the independence of Korea, to cede to Japan the island of Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the Liotung" Peninsula. In the Treaty of Shimonoseid (1895). Unluckily for Japan, she had to disgorge the Liaotung Peninsula owing to the intervention of Russia.- France, and Germany. But the background, had been set for bigger issues.
Continued onî Back Fare).
KAOTU
Busy Mr. F.
Take Barnes
"The Air'
Says Britain Is Healthier
Very interesting views on air- travel were expressed by Mr. F. Barnes, the Far Eastern repre-
efficiency has taken its place, Is his opinion.
In to-day's skirmishes the Chin- ess did not do much firing on the Japanese and largely confined their activities in potting snipers. Thousands of Chinese continue to Artillery exchange is taking place pour from the northern districts with the, Chinese, directing their into the Settlement, blocking the fire on the Headquarters of the creeks and bridges. There were Japanese, garrison, The skirmishes pitiful scenes as the panic stricken gave Shanghal a foretaste of possi-Wang Kung in Nanking sent in sentative of the Ovaltine organisa and he enthusiastically reported Mr. Barnes is a Lancashire man. crowds rushed about the streets bie war. As the rides and machine trying to find shelter as the bombs"
a petition to the Central Govention. He spoke with enthusiasm of that the industrial altuation there guns barked, the Second Loyals, burst in the distance, Homeless American Marines and Shanghai lead the 400,000 Mohammedans in the busy business man by the net three years ago. Poverty has ment to the effect that be would the splendid facilities afforded to is considerably better than it was families are camping in the streets Volunteers laid down barbed wires China to fight the Japanese work of air-services which almost diminished, and beggars are con in the central districts. Reuter
ments were rushed. The British der to bring the Four Points, as encircles the world to-day
put forward by Generalissimo boast KANGA
spicuous by their absence in Eng nagahip, Cumberland and the Chiang Kai-shek to realisation- American flagship, Augusta, are Du-Dao. arriving here to-morrow. — Reuter
BANKS CLOSED Shinghai: The Minister
While driving along. Des Voeux Road near the World Theatre a public car met with a slight
YANGTSZE CLOSED accident last night. - Accord- Nanking: The Government has ing to a police report, Woo Ying notified the Treaty Powers of the Mok was driving in a westerlý closing of navigation on the direction and as he passed the Yangtze River beyond Chinklang
in their sectors to which reinforce-
of
London allver prices to-day were. World Theatre a boy ran out from Lntil further notice. A spokesman | Finance has declared a bank hoff an active part during the engage would have taken had he gone in in the town, both in Hong Kong
down 1/16 for "Spot and un- the left side of the road. The declared that this action was a changed for "Forward," as follow: driver swerved to the right with necessary defence measure.--
Aug. 12. Aug, 13. the result that be scrapped the Reuter apat................19-16/16° 19-7/8′′ back of his right mudguard by Forward.19-16/16 19-15/18 colliding with a tram which was
travelling in the same direction.
Mall, Notices. Radio Programmes
Sport
NEWS INDEX
Local Diary
isements
tices
Article
Shipping
12, 13 The Services
The Volunteers
Page 16.:
CHINESE PUT UP STUBBORN: FIGHT
Pelping: The Japanese dercely attacked the Chinese positions at the foot of Nankow pass, of the two-mile trout. Both sides are machine-gunning at short range. The Chinese fought a stubborn rear guard action and withdrew to the mountains around Nankow. Reuter
day commencing at 10.15 am to day, lusting through Saturday, It affects all Chinese banks which have been closed-Beuter-
'STILL" WILLING
TO NEGOTIATE"
The Editor's, comments on the Sino-Japanese crisis will be found under this caption on "Page).
JAPANESE HEADQUARTERS
Shanghai: Chinese artillery took
into the Headquarters of the mente to-day. Several shells fell Japanese landing parties and did considerable damage. Tha-Deo,
Since January 1 Mr. Barnes has land. One of the Arst things covered a very wide field in the which struck him on arriving in course of his business activities, Hong Kong was the number of re and he was able to do this in one-volting and nauseating beggars sixth or the travel time which it who pester passers-by everywhere
Another advantage is the fact a premium, Mr. Barnes remarked, the old way, by ship and train, and Kowloon.
In England skilled labour is a that travellers can relax when and a much better attitude pre- travelling by air, he said. M. valls between the employer and the Barnes has crossed the world by workers JAPANESE FIRED FIRST Imperial Airways, and speaks very Mr. F. Barnes has indeed struck.
highly of the catering and food Shanghat The Chinese announce supplied, while the night accom- cheering and reassuring. He was a note of optimism which is both that fighting has broken out in the modation at all points between looking very fit and well after lis northern district of Shanghai and Southampton and the Far East was literally dying tour in spite allege that the Japanese fired first
the fact that strictly spea was mainly busines
Mrs. Barnes is accompany husband, and the Hong Kong
Atether message is to the effect that fighting had broken out in the Paoshan Road district,
Router
everything which could be desired, He was also very much impressed by the way that everything 1an so smoothly to schedule. The era of stunt-flying has passed, and quiet