FUTURE OF BRUSSELS
CONFERENCE
Depends On Japan's Reply
To Letter
Brussels, November 5.
The full private session of the Nine-Power, Conference held to-day will be the last for some days. M. Spaak, acting Belgian Foreign Minister, who is president of the Conference, is submitting the draft of a proposed letter to Japan on whose reply to which depends the future of the Conference.
It is understood that the letter has two principal points. Firstly, emphasising that the Conference is not under the aus- pices of the League and secondly, pointing out that Japan will be able to negotiate with a small body instead of the full Con- ference.
Ir the reply is favourable there M. Spaaks in the draft letter re- will be long and tedious negotia-ferring to the points of the Japan tions between China and Japanese reply to the Brussels invitation and the sub-committee for media- tion which it is proposed to es- tablish in the meantime.
If the reply from Japan is in the negative the Conference will revert to its starting point and will be obliged to seek other means for ending the hostilities."
It is considered that these two points will meet the objections which the Japanese made in their memorandum refusing to attend the Conference.
CHINA'S OFFER
11
observes they comprise the funda- mental principles of the Nine-Power Treaty which provides that where. one of the contracting parties felt cause for complaint, as Japan, for example, complained of the Com- munist infiltration in China, to-
gether with China's anti-foreign policy, interrupting peaceful com- mereläl relations between China and Japan there should be such exchange of views as is now taking place in Brussels. Further, those states party to the treaty" are all not members of the Lengus.nar. participated in the League's dis- cussions on the Sino-Japanese con- consequently the Brussels
Mr. Anthony Eden, British For- eign Secretary, and M. Delbos, French Foreign Minister, are leav- ing this afternoon, but the Amer en delegation, headed by Mr. Norflet: man Davis, will be emaining for couference is based exclusively on terms of the Nine-Power the time being,
the Treaty whose signatories, taking into account the Japanese mis- givings of the presence at the conference
without direct interest in the Far East, in- vited certain of their numbers to exchange views with Japan within the framework of the treaty, with the particular aim of throwing light on various points mentioned above and to facilitate a settle- ment between the two parties.
M. Spaak's letter was read at the the opening of the Conference.
The Chinese delegate, Dr. Well- Ington Koó. Chinese Ambassacr to France, then rose and offered to withdraw temporarily 'rom the meeting If the other delegates should feel that the absence of the Chinese delegation would facilitate the discussions. Dr. Koo added. "We do not intend to relinquish our right or to evade our duty to participate in the work of the Con- ference."
At the request of the Italian delegate, Count Marescotti, and M. Spaak the Chinese delegation re- mained.
An adjournment was made at noon to enable the delegates to take cognisance or M: Spaaks draft letter-cuter.
CHINA'S OBSERVERS Berlin, Nov. 5: General Chiang Pao-lle, accompanied by the Chin- ese Ambassador to Berlin. have Brussels to attend the left for
as ob- Ninc-Power Conference servers.
£288,000,000 FOR ARMAMENT
London, Nov. 5 Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, speaking at Darwin, said that
been
since March orders for armament, valued at £288,000,000 have been placed while fifty-eight- new ei tablishments for the purpose of fulalling contracts haye created and they are either Gov- ernment-owned or are extensions financed by the Government.- Reuters Bulletin Servira
of powers
The conference adjourned at 1.20 p.m. tl to-morrow. Mr. Anthony Eden left for London, by his private plane and will return early next i week.-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1937.
JAPAN MAKES
TENTATIVE › PEACE TERMS
REGARDED AS NOT ACCEPTABLE
BY GENERALISSIMO
PRESENTATION TO EARL BALDWIN
London, Nov. 5.
Earl Baldwin was presented with an Illuminated address in a gold casket by the Corporation of the City of London last night the pre- sentation being made in the pre- sence of the Premier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and members of the Cabinet
Tokyo, Nov. 5. Japanese officialdom strenuously denies that it has made any move towards peace. Nevertheless it is freely rumoured that Japan, will willingly end the Shanghat adven- ture, and informed opinion is in- clined to the view that Herr Hitler is more likely to be acceptable as a mediator than President Roose-berlain- velt.
Earl Baldwin said that he felt that Mr. Ramsay Macdonald was not given the full credit for what he did for the Government in '1931 and the succeeding year. He also paid tribute to Mr. Neville Cham-
Reuters Bulletin Service.
BRITISH PLAN ACCEPTED
"It is understood that Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek has been informed of Japan's tentative peace terms but regard them as unacceptable, with the result that
London, Nov. 1. an armistice is not likely in the
To-day's session of the Non- near future, as China insists on
Intervention Committee succeeded the restoration of the situation
in arriving at an agreement re- existing previous to July as wellgarding the British plan for exec- as strict observance of Article One tive non-intervention. The Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky wRS the the Nine-Fower Pact.-
scle, member of the Committee, to abstain from voting when it came to the discussion of granting bel- ligerent rights.
Reuter
NO RECEPTIONS. IN NANKING
In
can-
Nanking. Nov. 5: Owing to the Sino-Japanese hostilities in Shanghai and North China, foreign diplomatic representatives Nanking have voluntarily celled various official functions which they would ordinarily hold during normal times, according to information emanating from di- plomatic sources.
It was unanimously decided to ap- empower Lord Plymouth to proach bot
both Spanish parties and to communicate to them the at- titude of the European Govern-
ients...
Lord Plymouth opened the sea-
NOTICE
Owing to the recent increase in freight rates, from.... Shanghai we have been obliged to make a small increase in the price of our AQUARIUS WATERS. We can assure our customers, however, that, these waters will be reduced to their original price
North return immediately conditions in the
normal.
to
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
CHINESE GIVES
sion with a statement regarding VALUABLE LAND
The Soviet Embassy will not hold a recention on November on the occasion of the 20th an- niversary of the establishment of the Soviet Union. "The ItalianCharge Embassy has also cancelled plans for a reception to celebrate the birthday of the Italian King which falls on the same date.---
Central News.
An official spokesman said that SHANGHAJ ROCKED ́
BY BOMBARDMENT
the result of the meeting was most encouraging. The general discus- sion was instructive and useful and
Shanghai. Nov. 5. according to present indications it
The Scverest bombardment should be possible to re-draft the
for many memorandum and conclude the re- Shanghai has heard draft to-morrow for submission for
adoption by the full Conference on Monday. A communique Issued by the Secretariat states that certain documents apparently leaked into the press. No texts which were not officially published were au- thoritative.-— Bruter.
JAPANESE SUCCESS, CLAIMED
Peiping. Nov. 5.
That Japanese troops attacking Changteh in North Honan have captured Chinese positions near the railway station by frontal at-
tacks is claimed in a Japanese
communique, which adds that a mobile force has also encircled the city and reached the south gate The Chinese troops are reported to be withdrawing to the south.- Reuter,
TRAWLER WRECKED SALT PURCHASE
London. Nov. 5. Six members Batavia, Nov. 5: Negotiations of the crew were drowned when an Aberdeen trawler was wrecked are being conducted with Japan for the sale of about 150,000 tons of off the coast of Scotland early salt from Madura. Dutch East this morning.- Indics. Reuter.
Reuter's Bulletin Sergice.
Chinese junks were sank by Japanese gunfire st Pootung Point, where repeated Japanese attempts to land have been re- pulsed.
days rocked the western district all night long as the Japanese bat- teries opened up fire од the Chinese positions in south 600- chow Creek.
Bursts of shrapnel
were seen from different parts of the Settlement and the French Concession while trench mortar and machine gun fire was plainly
heard
The bombardment is believed to be the prelude to a major Japanese drive to capture the Hunglao area, Chinese military authorities des- cribe the night's fighting as ex- tremely sanguinary and opine that the "big battle" is likely to break. out any moment now. They ad- initted that the Japanese troops have gained a foothold in four villages on the south bank of the Creek Reuter."
20 KILLED 'IN HUNAN Hengyang, Hunan, Nov. 3: It is disclosed to-day that more than 20 villagers were killed and 100 others injured on November 1 when a Japanese plane released two bombs at Tunghalang Village. The mis- slles exploded in the midst of a gathering of villagers.-- Central News.
FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR NANZIANG
TO COUNTRY
began,
e work of the Committee since the beginning of its sessions in July. Count Grandi, Italian Am- bassador, stated that it had been Impossible to make a headway At the time hostilities because of the Soviet attitude. Mr. Yoh Pao-tsing, Shanghai bust- and that it had to be awaited ness man, was blessed with plenty until Russla had clarified her of this world's goods. To-day Mr. attitude.
Yoh is a poor man as money goes. In Liberty Dr. Woermann, Acting German-but he is well-off
d'Affairs. endorsed the Bands and is happy in the know- Italian statement, and added that ledge that he has aided his coun- Germany was prepare to lend her try to the best of his ability. support to the methods пот adopted, providing all outstanding questions, including that of grant- ing belligerent rights, were cleared He addressed four questions to Lord Plymouth, each intending to show that the Committee would do well to ascertain the Russian attitude.
up.
M. Corbin, French Ambassador, drew attention to the connection
existing between the control and the volunteer questions. He stated that it was the intention of the French Government to continue to enforce strict control over the Pyrennees frontier, as long as pro-
being registered dealing with the question of for- eign fightera.
gress Was
Yoh's latest patriotic act was to send to the National Committee the title deeds for valuable land he owned in the western district of Shanghai. Yoh requested that the land be disposed of and the, pro- ceeds converted into Liberty Bonds. He stipulated that he did not wish to accept the bonds and wanted to donate them to the government, which means that Mr. Yoh gave.
up his property to help his coun- try.
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REFULGE BAY HOTEL
SHANGHAI
ARTOR. HOUSE; PÁLAGÉ "HOTEL; HOTELS LIMITED.
In masoolation with the Grand Hotel der Wagons Lita, Peking,
FOSSILS FISHED TWO MILES DOWN
TO LEARN CAUSE OF SEA CANYONS
Fishing for sedimentary rocks and fossils a mile or two beneath
In view of the fact that Mr. Yoh
The theories which have been declined to accept, bonds, for his
advanced to explain their origin. property there is a movement
two categories, those afoot to bestow upon him a gov-the surface of the sea has been fall into
one of the novel summer occupa- which hold to the action of in ernment commendation for his
tions of two successive years for submarine currents and thoo patriotism.
the, research ship Atlantis, Boating i which lean to stream erosione laboratory of the Woods Hole
A FROESEM - Oceanographic Institute.
Those who hat the stream-
A vota was then taken, with the result that the Briish Plan was accepted.-
▪I
Trawocean. Nema Nervior.
New Threepenny Bit Has Twelve Sides
London, Nov. 4. The new threepenny piece in vent its use in shilling slot ma- England has twelve sides to pre-
chines and gas meters. it disclosed by Lord Dudley at a dinner of the British Gas Federa- tian...
Was
When it was learned the new coins could be used as shillings in
operating slot machines the Royal Mint proposed a change in the
shape of the coin-Reuter
DIPLOMATIC POKER
Britain' Being Bluffed
Shanghai, Nov. 3: Flerce fighting
London, Nov. 4. broke out to-day at Tutitang,
Britain's strategic position in the about 800 metres south-east of
Mediterranean was debated in the Nanziang when a column of Japan-House of Lords to-day.
ese troops launched an attack on Lord Strabpig! (Labour) said Bri- the Chinese positions. Fighting is still continuing up till late this afternoon.
Central News.
JAPANESE PLANES BOME WUSIH
Soochow, Nov. 3: According to a report received here, a fleet of Japanese planes subjected Wush, important town on the Nanking Shanghai Railway. to severe bombing to-day.
thin's position in the Mediter- ranean was extremely strong, whlist Italy's was extremely weak because of her forces in Libya and Abyssinia. But Gibraltar to-day "was not invulnerable, as was once
thought.
He added that international
CHINESE PREPARE ·
TO RESIST
Chang Fab-kwei Reported In Command
Dr. Henry C. Stetson, Harvard erosion theory, believing such, val- ' palaeontologist seeing to learnleys to be cut by rivers or stresme, when and how there originated will have to explain how the tremendous submarine
borders of the continents, can, be valleys, rivaling in depth Colorado Grand raised. 10,000 feet or more, or how Canyon, had 'charge of operations. the ocean can be lowered an, cupi
of 2
amount. pole, line and
Dr. E. P. Shepard of the Uni- fishhooks, he used a power winch,
versity of Illinols supposes that the five miles of steel cable and a basket-like dredging net with steel-polar ice caps may have been pronged edge and steel mésh.
Instead Shanghai, Nov. 5. The determination of the Chin- ese to check the Japanese troops at all costs is foreshadowed by the intense inlitary activity in the Hungjao Road area, "where large number of Chinese soldiers are digging themselves in.
With a chart of Georges Bank before him, the. navigator would hait directly over a known canyon.
side would
80. Dr.
vastly greater than has hitherto been supposed. He estimates their
thickness might have béen 22,68D fest. In order to make this possible the north polar cap, would bare been enlarged by a complete trces---
At one point Chinese infantry- Over the men have dug trenches within a Stetson's "net," while the winch few yards of the British defence located in the hold of the shiping over of the Arctic Basin, with line at Keswick Road, which is held by the Loyal Regiment.
The Chinese are also placing long lines of barbed wire and im proving their redoubts and ma- chine-gun emplacements. Mean- while. heavy reinforcements are arriving, chiefly from Tsinpu. It 1 reported that General Chang Fah-kwel, Commander of the "Tren Eides" is directing operations on the south side of Soochow Creek
Reuter
paid out cable. Once the net this used as a platform on which more snow and ice could as- struck the canyon bottom, the ship would proceed on its way at right cumulate Recent work along the angles to the direction of the
Siberian Coast supports this view. canyon, thus dragging the dredge
For the present, the puzzle of up the face of the clif MOLLUSKS
SHOTS FIRED ON OMNIBUS
Jerusalem, Not. 5: Shots were politics was like a game of poker, aired on an omnibus running be- and Britain was being bluffed
tween Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to- successfully all along the line. 2
The Marquess of Dufferin, reply-day. The driver and two passen-
gers were slightly injured,
Curfew was lifted in Nazareth owing to the festival of Ramadani, which lasts a month Reuters Bulletin Service.
ing for the Government, said-the sole concern of Britain was to protect the Mediterranean as a highway, and this was the object of the declaration which Italy and Britain had made. Reuter. K.
Over ten bombs were released on the station destroying one section of the track. The machines later flew over Chouchinghalang and dropped a number of bombs Central NewN
VICE-MINISTER OF HAILWAY
"Nanking, Nov. 5. Mr. Yen Te-ching. Chief Technical expert in the Ministry Shanghaibal, Nov. 5: One of
JAPANÉSE BOMBER BROUGHT DOWN AT KIATING
BEDEAUX SPEAKS
Newark NJ, Nov. 6. Upon arrival here Mr. Charles
of Railwaysarid Acting Vice-eight Japanese bombers which Bedeaux denied the statements Minister of Railways, is leaving for raided Kating on the morning of attributed to him by the American Hankow to-morrow to assume the morning of November 3 Press. office concurrently a Managing crashed to the ground when it He said so far as he knew the Director of the Perping-Hankow was bit by a Chinese anti-aircraft plans of the Duke and Duchess of Railway.—
*shell. All three occupants were of Windsor were unchanged.- Reuter.
"instantly' killed- Central Netas.
Besiter:
Stetson:
how the submarine canyons. orig inated is still to be solved. There is really no satisfactory evidence From the fossil evidence uncoy- to explain the extraordinary fea- ered, worm casts, mollusks or shell-tures so far uncovered. - Bay, Dr. fish and tiny foraminifera, it has been established, according to Dr. "It would appear well-nigh im- Stetson. that the enst coast' possible to raise the continental canyons cannot be older than margins to the amount which is Pliocene, the period immediately required and do it uniformly over preceding the Ice Age of 20,000 to the world. On the other hand, ul- 1,500,000 years ago...
marine currents do not appear ade- Were it not for new methods of quate either. Except for a better sounding the ocean botton to deter-knowledge of the extent of the mine its depth.. work carried on by topographic features and for the the United States Coast and Geo- dating of their time of formation, detic Survey for the benefit of the they are still as much a mysters fishing industry and in the interest as they were when first charted.”
Christian Science Monitor."/ of shipping, these canyons would still be poorly located indentations on the 100-fathom line of charts, Instead of extremely accurately determined canyons. The sounding is accomplished by the fathometer which measures the time necessary for sound to travel from ship to ocean bottom and back again.
Such submarine canyons as those of the Hudus, Indus, Congo and Niger Rivers have been known for years and their more accurate plotting caused little excitement, but when vist canyons began turning up on continental shelves. the world over, oceanographers Look.notice.
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE DISMISSED
A charge of obtaining money by false pretences, preferred against Tom Krng-yan, altas Touchl wo, merchant, of 43 Connaught Road Central, second floor, was dismissed by Mr, R. Edwards At the Central Magistracy yesterday. He Worship decided there was a lack of evidence,
Chief Detective-Inspector J. Murphy, assisted by Detective Ber- geant Fraser, prosecuted and Mẹ H. L.Kwan defended. The rum involved was one of $1,500.