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GENERALISSIMO
INTERVIEWED
Belief Expressed In
Brussels Conference
"FINAL VICTORY WILL BE
WITH
US"
Nanking. Nov. 8: The following, tinction and she will never be able is a free translation of the full to be a free and independent na- text of the Interview given by Generalissimo Üblanz Kal-shek to foreign pressmen at Nanking last
Light.
QUESTION What is your opinion If it is suggested at the Brussels Conference that China should open direct negotiations with Japan for the settlement. of the present hostilities?
tion. This will not only be into Ierable to China but also unaccept- able to the signatories to the Nine-Power Treaty.
CHIEF OBJECT QUESTION: What are the pre- sent military developments and ta the future optimistic,
ANSWER: The chief object of China's present war of defence is to preserve our military power over a long war and to exhaust the willighting power of our enemy The last three months of fighting well proves that we have attained opr goal. On the Shanghai-Woosung front we had no strong defences or any strategic point to hold on. been However, our troops have able
ANSWER: The suggestion that China should open direct negotia- tion with Japan for the settlement of the present hostilities merely add further difficulties to China. Furthermore, such a step is entirely, contrary to the spirit of the Nine-Power Treaty, Japan has acted in violation of justice and good faith. No matter what agreements are reached it will put China in
Dosition which will this constantly threaten her with ex-"
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DON BRADMAN OUT FOR II
South Australia Beat
New Zealand
Adelaide, Nov. 8: Playing in a cricket match for South Australia against the New Zealand touring team to-day, Don Bradman, the famous Australian Test cricketer was dismissed for 11 runs.
South Australla. "however, won hundily by ten wickets.
The New Zealanders scored 151 Ward 4 for 59) and 186 (Ward T fer 62: to which South Australia replied with 331. to which Bad- cock contributed 114. in their first tanings and in their second visit
the crease knocked off the seven runs necessary for victory without the loss of a wicket.— Reater
Cables
NEWS INDEX
Finance Leading. Article
Local Diary
Mall Notices
10 resist the enemy till day, despite the supertor (Continued on Back Page)
JAPAN'S REPLY MAY BE DELAYED
TWO HUNDRED KILLED AND
WOUNDED
JAPANESE DRIVE WEDGES FURTHER
CHINESE LINES
INTO
FURIOUS FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONT
Shanghai, November 8: Furious fighting, which will probably mark one of the last battles for Shanghai, raged on the western front to-day as Japanese infantry supported by artillery and aircraft drove wedges still further into the Chinese lines.
Watching from the top of the eight-storeyed West Park Mansions, overlooking the battlefield. Reuter's correspondent saw the Chinese lafantry pounded by the cruel artillery fire. Sometimes the Chinese were forced to withdraw for a short distance but returned whenever the barrage was lifted.
Chinese troops to the west of the defence perimeter held on to their position but are basy winding up telephone wires and making other preparations suggesting an early withdrawal. It is be- lived in some quarters that this may occur to-night, Meanwhile, a Japanese mechanised anft from.. the Hangehow area reached Whangpoo, opposite Mingliong, fourteenmiles to the south of Shanghai.
All day long pathetic processions of Chinese refugees. men, women and children, streamed in through the western defence sector some having come from as far as Sungklang and it looked as if the whole countryside was on themove.
Weärled and terrified the refugees carried all their possessions they were able to and presented a most tragie picture. Many lay down exhausted as soon as they crossed the British thes-Reuter. Nanking, November. 8: More than 200 were killed and wounded when six Japanese plänes bomb- ed the south bound Blue Express, number 301, near Hsuchowfu, on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, ac-. cording to a report received by the Ministry of Rallways, which adds that seven destroyed---Reuter.
NEW AIR MAIL
SERVICE
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Between New Delhi And Bombay
New Delhi, Nov. 3. The first flight of the inaugura
tion air mail service between New Tokyo, Nov. 8. Delhi and Bombay took off from A Foreign Office spokesman at a Willingdon Aerodrome. New Delhi, Press conference said that regard-this morning and reached Bombay ing Belgium's second invitation in time for lunch. from a small Committee of the Nine-Power Pact signatories Ic- ceived on Sunday. "We require a considerable and most careful
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POPPY DAY STREET
SALES
£600,000 Is Aim
London, Nov. 3. Special Armistice Sunday, ser- vices and Church parades were held yesterday throughout Britain. As in former years, the portion of lawn outside Westminster Ab- bey has been set aside as a Field of Remembrance and was formal- rance and was foarked
out in plots set apart for regiments In the Army. and Navy and Royal Air Force and by night when the
ly opened. The plane carried 3,500 letters including special messages from the Viceroy to the Governor of study and Japan's reply may be Bombay and Indian rulers over whose territory the mal plane
delayed."
crossed. The messages were
en-
Personally he saw no reason for the Japanese Government to change its mind and hinted that blue, colours of the Viceroy Japan objects to the presence of Soviet Russia on which Japan was not consulted,
closed in silk bags of gold and
The spokesman denled that Japan had in any way communi cated peace terms to Berlin. He declared that the Tri-Partite Agreement restricted the three Powers to co-operation against the Comintern and not for any other purpose."
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LOCAL ESTATE
The new service will be on a bi- weekly schedule.--
Renter's Bulletin Service.
MEDICAL RELIEF FOR WAR ZONE
The following is the list of medica) supplies sont to various centres in China by the International Medical Relief Committee, Hong Kong,
Seat St. John's Anbulance: 2,800 bandages for Canton.
George MacDonald Young, late Made for Chinese Youth Medical
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of No. 102 Drayton Gardens, South Relief Association: 10,000 bandages Kensington, who died on June 10.(Material supplied by them).
1937, left local estate to the value
Received argent wire from Hankow:
of $108,400. An application by Har-30 tins of Ether seat at once. old John Armstrong, solicitor, for sealing copy of the probate of the "deceased has been granted by the
Supreme Court.
Sent by train at same time to Han- kow: 110 lbs, of Ether.
Mrs. Hayler with a group of friends at the Nath Extra Race
Meeting at the Valley last Saturday.
field was floodlit thousands of small memorial-crosses had been planted in it. They included one
from H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor bearing the badge of the Grena- dier Guards and inscribed. "In memory of fallen comrades.
The public are urged to aim at raising £600,000 as result of street sales of artificial popples on Thursday, Armistice Day. Poppy Day finances benevolent work of the British Legion for ex-Service men and their dependents.- British Wireless Service. "
[Last year the magnificent total
£543-721 was reached.]
BADMINTON LEAGUE
Last Night's Scores
Two days later, sent by air: 814 lbs. of chloroform in varying amounts.
The Hong Kong Badminton Beat by air to Nanking: 2,000 League season started yesterday grams of miercurochrome." 1,000 band-evening with programme of three ages. 20 lbs. of cotton wool, 4 lbs. of matches in the "A" Division of the iodine. 2 doz. pra, rubber gloves,
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H.K.-HANKOW
AIR SERVICE
To Be Operated By C.N.A.C.
The
China National Aviation Service has definitely decided to open a new air service in South Chios.
The new service will operate be tween Hong Kong and Hankow and will be served by Douglas planes of the latest type as used by the R.L.M. (Dutch) service operating between Holland and the Netherlands Indies
Sunrise Makes Big Shadows
DREAM
..
OF
EMPIRE
THE RISING SUN" OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE casts a long shadow over China and the whole of Asia, But there is an old proverb which Japan should read: "A little man should not measure his stature by
the length of his shadow in the early morning.'*
◆ BURNING AMBITION has driven Japan out on a limb. On Sep- tember 18, 1931, when Japan occupied Mukden and began the con--
quest of Manchuria, this little bespectacled race first saw its shadow.
Since then, Japan has been swelling desperately to match the size and pretentions of that shadow.
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In a deeply searching article in Harper's Magazine. Nathaniel Peter traces the swelling of that shadow, Japan's "dream of empire." "For all social purposes, for all purposes except the dispatch of troops and the military burial of men killed in action, Japan has been at war since 1931, a war of economic attrition in which there is not even the advantage of a definite enemy to be attacked."
Japan has fought the Industry and Labour of the world with one weapon: Low prices, underselling the goods of the rest of the world.
And the rest of the world has fought back with one weapon: High tariffs, raised always higher to keep out cheap Japanese goods.
Japan has increased the production of her industry by 41 per cent That is marvellous-but still, her exports. the last four years.
"Daily Press" representative yes- terday learned that wireless apparatus is now being installed at the various important points on the route which in will be via Wuchow. A survey fight will be made next week when the various landing grounds, etc. en route will be tested.
Other details have not yet been decided on, it is understood. Recently the C.N.A.C. have bean Eying their Douglas planes to Hankow on fights which have been regarded in the nature of experiments. These, it is understood, have been considered, to have been extremely satisfactory,
SPANISH WAR
NEWS
do not amount to 5 per cent of theworld's total.
Her exports are no larger than the combined total, exports of Holland, Belgium and Canada. And certainly the world would not" fear a combination of those three rations.
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Japan is a "first generation" world power. She is just coming Mr into the strength and the weaknesses of the Western world. Petter diagnoses Japan's "growing pains":
"Until now, Japan has had only the advantages of Westernism -—---- wealth, power, and efficiency.
"It has begun now to get the disadvantages-dependence on for- eign trade, dependence on external sources of raw materials; burden of arinament expenditure to support expansionist policies based oil, need for foreign trade and raw materials; entanglement in the world economy; increasing disparity between wealth at home and the result. London, Nov. 8: Heavy fighting ing discontent; growing antagonism between the classes: and the
submergence of the agrarian population."
is reported on the Aragon front
where the Insurgents declare they started two offensives against the Government troops which claim
And most disturbing to our own complacency, is this observation: that they were repulsed. Fifty "That Japan" has been successful in adopting Westernism, can no thousand Spanish refugees have longer be doubted. been sent back to Spain from France since the beginning of the hostilities and half of the number have asked to be sent back to ter- ritories controlled by the Insur- gents→ Center's Bulletin Srivare.
R.M.A. DORADO
Sent Chinese Medical Association Men's Doubles.
We have been informed by the Shanghai: 748,000 units of antitetanic Playing at home in the Eu Tong Imperial Airways (Far East LA- Sen Gymnasium, the University.mited that the RMA. Dorado will On behalf of anonymous society seat" defeated King's College, who arrive here as per schedule to- Chinese Medical Association, Shangbai were making their debut in this and Central Hospital, Nanking: Me Division, by six sets to three. dical Supplies to the value of 81.000.-
Sent to Shanghai: 9,000 bandages, At King's Park, the University 2,000 grams of mercurochrompe, 1 b "A" took full points from Club de joding, 06 boxes of cargot (1 doz. cach | Recreio "B" winning by nine clear box), 6 lbs. Chloroform.
0lbs. of Ether to Nanking.
Gave Burdhist Ambulance Unit,
Canton 21st October: 1,000 bandages. Recieved from Honolulu, 26,000 anita of antitetanic serum. This sent at once to Shanghai
Received from Honolula, about three weeks ago, 100 packages of old clothes, Handed this to Dr. David Au for distribution through the A.M.C.A.
November, 5th. Received cable from Honolulu. 60,000 tons old cloth- ing being sent to this committee.
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Visiting St. Andrew's Church Hall. Club de Recreto " whelmed St. Andrew's Club win ning by nine sets to ntl.
TYPHOON
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THE DOLLAR
L.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-11/18 T.T. ON LONDON: 1s. 27/84.
London Silver: Market
(From Our Own Correspondent).
London, Nov. 3 London Iver prices to÷day' were down 1/16 for "Bpot" and 1/8 for "Forward" as follow
Nov. 8. 19-9/16
The following typhoon warning was issued yesterday afternoon:
Cyclone (or typhoon east af Spot, Luzon, less than 300 miles distant..
Forward.
Nov. 6. 19-5/8 ....19-5/8.
19-1/2
"What can be questioned is whether Japan will be any more suc- cessful in escaping the penalties of Westernism than the WEST has been."
Japar, has learned much from the West; now the West should. learn this one thing from Japan:
No nation can long survive which taxes its machinery of PRO- DUCTION to make the implements of DESTRUCTION for waging wars.
Scene taken at the Race Meeting last Saturday.