HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,
AUGUST 31, 1937.
PRESS SUPPORT FOR BRITISH NOTE
General Sugiyama, Japanese War Minister,
WHO'S WHO
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FIRM BUT RESTRAINED
DEMANDS MADE.
"JAPAN IS NEAR BANKRUPTCY”.
LONDON, AUGUST 30.
THE BRITISH NOTE TO JAPAN IS WARMLY COMMENDED BY THE PRESS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THE ** TIMES ** TERMS THE NOTE TO BE APPROVED BY THE PUBLIC AS JUST. NO BRITISH GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE" ASKED FOR LESS IN SATISFACTION FOR THE SHOCKING OUTRAGE. TO HAVE PRE- SENTED STIFFER DEMANDS WOULD HAVE BEEN TO ALLOW A WELL-JUSTIFIED RESENTMENT TO OUTRUN REASON. THE DEMANDS ARE REASONABLE AND IT 15 EARNESTLY TO BE HOT- EO THAT THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT WILL PROMPTLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY GIVE THE REQUIRED SATISFACTION. JAPAN'S DISREGARD FOR THE PUBLIC LAW OF THE WORLD, IN HER DEALINGS WITH CHINA PUTS ANOTHER SEVERE STRAIN ON THE STRUCTURE OF CIVILISATION.
The Japanese are a great nation who have a great future before them. Some are blinded by the narrow realism that sees only their immediate objective but others, wiser and more far-sighted, must know that in the ordered world, based on the slowly bulit-up
In The North China rules of civilisation, Japan could win a richer place than she can
Conflict.
in
The careers of chief personall- tles in the present conflict North China are briefly described below.
gain by force in the world of anarchy.
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Amin Husseini, Grand Mufti in Jerusalem, leader of the Arabs in Palestine, who is at the head of the opposition against the pro- posed partitioning of the country.
MORE JAPANESE ALLEGATIONS
a situation which does not favour Secret Clauses And
The Note emphasises that, the Japanese Government will be the British Government, without wise to accept the Note and end abandoning any rights; will con- tinue to work for peace. It also stresses the real issue that the attacked party were non-com- batants. The Note stands on no petty point of honour but for a fundamental principle which can- not be allowed to lapse into disuse.
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DEPLORABLE ATTACK
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CHIANG KAI-SHEK, who prac- tically controls the Government of China this. office is that of President of the Executive Yuan), has done much to build up the
The "Morning Pest" says that strength of its fighting forces. He public opinion in England will studied milltary science in Japan fully endorse the terms of as a youth, and fought with the Note. The deplorable attack On revolutionists for Sun Yat-sen. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen During the great national uprising has stirred the nation which would of 1926-27 his command captured Hankow and occupied Shanghal and Nanking, and he showed his political genius through the use of political propaganda with the masses. He is married to Madame Sun Yat-sen's sister.
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GENERAL SUN CHEH-YUAN formerly chairman of the Hopel and Chahar Political Council, is in his early Afțies and, is described as an old-fashioned war lord. He won renown with his countrymen by his vallant defence of the Hsi- fengkuo Pass during the Japanese Invasion of Jehel in the spring of 1083. When the Japanese passed beyond Jehol the position of the northern provinces of China be- came difficult. and the Hopel- Chahar Political .Council was created. Its attitude towards the Japanese, however, was obscure, as Sung was sometimes in relations with the invading Japanese. sometimes with Nanking. and for some time he has main- tained his Independence. His army is reported to contain vio- lently anti Japanese elements, but in the present conflict the Japan- cse have preferred to carry an negotiations with Sung rather than with the central authority of Nanking.
GENERAL CHANG, TZÉ-CHUNG, commanding the Chinese 38th Division, was recently reported as having arranged to garrison" towns north and west of Peking.
GENERAL SUGIYAMA, Japanese Secretary for War. ke the chler commanders now in North China, is regarded by the Japanese as re- presenting the moderate wing of the army. After the militarist coup In Tokyo in February 1936, when several eminent statesmer. and #old'ers were murdered, the ap- pointment of extremists was avoid-
have been satisfied with no proteat less emphatic against an action which the Government and peo. ple alike regard as inexcusable. The Government could hardly have asked for less and it is per- haps a little surprising that they should have asked at all for what might so properly have been forth- coming, spontaneously and Im- mediately.
We refuse to believe that the British request will not receive a favourable response from Japan who cannot be unmindful of the age-old amity of the two nations.
UNHAPPY JAPAN According to the "Daily Express"
them. The entire Sino-Japanese situation is turning out far from happily for Tokyo, Japan is al- ready short of food. Her exporta are falling below her Imports and Japan is near bankruptcy.
The News Chronicle" says that the Note makes a demand which any
and
that will
Military Alliance!
London, August 30.
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According to messages received DANGER OF MASS
here from Moscow, the Japanese press are paying no attention to the British Note to Tokyo but are
Japan as a whole appears to take it for granted that the Pact must contain certain secret mill-
THINKING
Sir CG. Robertson On Free Personality
government careful of its honour would have granted al- | devoting all their space to the ready. The opinion expressed by Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Fact, the "Daily Telegraph" is that the and violently attacking the coun- Note is firm but restrained
tries concerned. the natural anticipation is the Japanese Government offer the satisfaction asked. With
The value of education in de- regard to the attacks on non- tary clauses and the "Kokomin veloping the ability to think for combatants the journal says that Shimbun." organ of the Japanese oneself was emphasised by several unless the doctrine generally ac- Army, states that it is an undis-speakers at school speech days re- cepted for warfare on land putable fact that the Pact contains cently. Extracts are given below: sea can be extended to operations clauses practically amounting to a from the air, future conflicts be-military alliance between the two tween great nations must see the collapse of civilization.
and
The "Daily Telegraph", says that the Note reveals the plight of the world without effective institutions for peace, and the British foreign policy should be directed to the "restoration. of the League of
Nations - Reuter.
SINO-SOVIET PACT
Is Fire Dart Stuck In Neck Of Japanese Bull
Paris, August 39.
The Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact is a fire dart stuck in the neck of the Japanese bull, says "Le Journal." China may be well satisfled to see a great power bring her moral support. the paper continues. Momentarlly that is as far as it goes but one never knows to which machinery assistance may go once it " is set in motion especially if the Japanese` re-act violently against this defiance, the paper concludes.-Reuter,"
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NEW INSTRUMENT OF PEACE Moscow, August 30. The conclusion of the Soviet- Chinese Pact represents new manifestation of the invariable peaceable policy of the U85.R., declares "Izvestia.” The paper dilates on the principle of the ind divisibility of peace. "Pravda" adopts a similar attitude and adds that the Fact represents a expression on the friendly feeling of the peoples of the USS.R. to- wards the. Chinese peoples strug-
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ed in order that the very danger-gling for freedom and Indepen- ous agitation in the army might dence. The Treaty represents a be safely handled. General Sug!- new instrument of peace and col- yama had been Under-Secretary Jective security, the paper
at the War Ministry and Director cludes.
of the Military Education Depart- ment (one of the three most im- portant positions in the Army) before his appointment to his pre- sent office.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL KIYO- SHI KATSUKI commands the
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70. PERSONS GAOLED
Kenya, August, 30. Seventy persons arrested in con-
with nection
recent zots In Mombasa were sentenced to three.
Japanese forces in China. Until and six months' imprisonment.
ROYALTY. ATTEND DIVINE SERVICE
countries.
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For this reason, the paper states. relations
between Russia and Japan will be very strained in the future. Furthermore, the Japanese papers allege that 20 Boviet Rus-
slan
Uppingham School.-Sir Charles Grant Robertson, Principal of Bir- mingham University, sald that with the great developments of science it seemed that it was the object of far too many people to mould all in one common, uniform. and depressing mass. Mass hyno-
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Chinese front lines but this report. of course has not been confrmed. -Transocean News Service.
AMOY FORMOSANS PLAN
REVOLT TO FREE COUNTRY Amoy, Aug. 30: A large body of young Formosans in this city have organised an anti-Japanese asso- ciation with the object of over- throwing Japanese rule of their
island nation.
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Registration of members is now Members take an progress, oath promising to struggle to their last breath for the freedom of Formosa.-
Central News.
NANKOW CHINESE STOP
FIGHTING TEMPORARILY Nankow, Aug. 30: According to *military information reaching here to-day, the Chinese troops in the Nankow region under General Liu Ju-ming. have called a halt to Aghting and are moving to a cer-
teach us to have the same
thoughts without any conviction
arriving at the same things with- out any real sincerity of purpose. That totalitarian uniformity was already a danger to elvliisa- tion as it has been developed in three or four European States. Against that we must set the de- velopment of the free personality,
St. Felix Schcol.-Mr. J. F. Rox- burgh, headmaster of Stowe, said,
CHARGES ABOUT PLANE INSIGNIA
Nanking, August 30: The Japan- ese allegation that two Chinese aeroplanes, had been painted with Japanese Insignia on their wings
and had attacked the warships in the Whangpoo is branded as pure fabrication and entirely without foundation by a spokesman of the Chinese Air Force to-day.
The Chinese spokesman regarded, this charge made by a 'Japanese official in Shanghai as a direct in-
sult to the Chinese military.
He expla'ned that China had never purchased any military aero- planes from Japan and would not
"While at school learn to think for yourself." In certain countries the Press and wireless have given au- tocratic government the power to mobliise public thought. Beware of mass thought. Get a sense of proportion.. Do not see, the near things too big, neglecting the fu- ture, nor the low things Money,
resort to such base tactics comfort and safety-too high."
Queen Margaret's School, Scar-painting the insignia of another borough.-Mrs. Kirk, headmistress country on the wings of the planes of Leeds
High School, as the Japanese are doing. "Thinking is an art, comparable with the other arts such as musle
Girls'
as
"Perhaps the Japanese spokes- man was merely trying to protect the two Japanese planes which
tain strategic point to join the and painting, and it must he cul- dropped bombs on their own war-
London, 'August 30.'" main body of Chinese troops. The King and Queen Who are The troops fighting against the staying at Balmoral Castle' attend- Japanese at Chuyungkwan, a short ed divine service yesterday. They distance south of the pass at Nan- were
two accompanied by the kow, have also ceased firing and Princesses and the Duke and are also moving as part of the new Duchess of Gloucester. The Pre-strategic plan.
mier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, gho. When all composed, the Chinese is staying at the castle as His lines will awaft sealed orders for Majesty's guest also attended the the next move,- service.--
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
LAND SALE
At the office of the Public Works Department yesterday afternoon Rural Building Lot No. 399 was put up for sale by public auction. Mr. Yu Pak Ho of No, 10 Bay View
$6,100.
recently he held a high milltary The situation in Mombasa la qu'et. Mansions, purchased the lot for appointment in Tokyo, but owing Reuter's Bulletin Service
to the illness of the Commander- in-Chief (the late Lieut.-General
Tashiro) in the field he left by
aeroplane to replace him. He was
actualy nominated for this post in January of last year, but' owing to the military revolt in Tokyo a month later he remained in the capital as he was regarded as the most capable oficer for the task of restoring discipline in the Imperial Guard. His former offices include the Deputy-Directorship of the Military Un'versity and the com- mand of the 12th Division, which has now been sent to China.
MAJOR-GENERAL HASHIMOTO, Chief of Staff of the Japanese forces in North China.
JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR Wizened Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe was on leave when the trouble started, had to sail immediately for Nanking with Japan's imperions ultimatum."
Central News.
CHINESE. BOMB · JAPANESE WARSHIPS Shanghai, Aug. 30: Early this morning Chinese planes bombed the Japanese warships at Shang- hal. They also bombed the Japan- ese controlled areas at Hongkew and Yang-shu-poo.
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tivated. It is not a question of collecting facts, but of absorbing them and reproducing them with some personal contribution. Many Deople say that half the things they learn in school are of no value afterwards. Studies, how-
developmental ever,
quailties which are of constant use through- out life. The age in which we live is a mechanical one, and therefore in order to preserve our Individuality we must develop our powers of thought "and, ability to express what we think,"
HEALTH RETURNS
ships," the spokesman added....... Central Newa
JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS SENT TO FENGTAI Nanking. August 30: According to information received here to-
day, a detachment of 5,000 new Japanese reinforcements landed at Tangku to-day and were sent im- mediately by train to Fengta!. A large quantity of military supplies was also brought to Tientsin.
A batch of 2,000 coolies, engaged by the Japanese military from Manchuria, arrived in Tientsin to-day--
Central News.
The health returns for the 48-|
TATUNG BOMBED AGAIN Finally after bombing the Japan-hobrs ended at midnight on Sun-
Tatung. Kwelsu, August 30: warships at Woosung, the day shows that there were 101 strategic railway town on the Chinese planes flew back safely to
cases of cholera, one of diphtheria, | Pelping-Sulquan line in Shansi, their base.-
four of enteric fever and three of was subjected to another bambing Chinese Evening Preu.
dysentery.
-the third within a week-to-day when two Japanese machines dropped two misaites in the south- eastern section of the town, number of houses were demolished. -Central News.
CHINESE CLAIM LINES IMPENETRABLE
The Chinese denial of a general withdrawal of troops appears to be well-founded hat there are also indications of a Japanese general offensive and when it starts the encounter will be very severe. The resistance of several Chinese lines of defence, including the Hindenburg Line of reinforced con- crete, the Chinese claim, cannot be penetrated by the Japanese.
The Chinese press unanimously welcome the Sino-Soviet pact and express the hope that it will lead to a treaty of mutual assistance in order to "preserve the peace of the Far East more effectively." adding that China is willing to conclude a'non-aggression pact with Japan: The Chinese press also praise Russia for having no territorial designa on China..
Operations in the immediate vicinity of Shanghai started comparatively late this morning. The Japanese batteries ashore began, a heavy bombardment at 9 am on the Klangwan Race Course and scored several direct hits on the clubhouse itself Chinese runs replied strongly and the Japanese planes also made a later appearance than usual though they attacked the strategic points around Shanghal-Renter.
SERIOUS RAILWAY
ACCIDENT
Capetown. August 30.
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GENERAL CHANG CHỊ CHUNG VISITS THE FRONTS Shanghai, Aug. 30: General Chang Chi-Chung, the newly pro- moted Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese defence forces at Shang- hai, paid a visit to the front lines: this morning.
General Chang is reported to have expressed the opinion that there will be no difficulty in driving. the Japanese Invaders to their warships.Chinese Evening Press. JAPANESE WARSHIPS SHELL POOTUNG
Shanghai, Aug. 30:
Yesterday
and this morning two Japanese warships shelled Pootung in order to test the strength of the Chinese defence forces.
After the bombardment the two warships proceeded up stream-with. some special object in view—— Uhinese Evening Press. HEAVY JAPANESE CASUALTIES Shanghal, Aug. 30: Three Japan- ese warships have been bombard- ing Tungchow incessantly. Last night the Japanese attempted to capture Klangwan, but were re- pulsed.
Japanese troops in the Lotien sector hoped to hold their post- tions, but were now completely de- moralized
The Japanese casualties already amount to over 12,000: Some of the dead bodies have been sent to Tientsin for cremation, but the majority have been dumped into the sea-Chinese Evening Premi
BRITISH, AMERICAN AND FRENCH CO-OPERATE Shanghai, Aug. 30: It is reported that Great Britain, the United States and France will co-operate for the protection and advance- ment of their commercial interests in China, in so far as the same are being affected by the blockade and the fighting in Shanghai and North China, Chinese Beening Press.
YORKSHIRE ACCEPT
CHALLENGE
London, Aug. 30.
A serious railway accident oc curred here in which two were
The Yorkshire County Commit- killed and six injured when an electric train crashed into a buffet meet Middlesex at the Oval in a tee has accepted the challenge to car and ran off the tracks running four-day match beginning Septem into the railway station No pasher 11. The profits will be devoted.
sengers were aboard: The accident
is attributed to faulty brakes.---.
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to charities.-
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