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MASS EVACUATION OF NANKING
NEW PACIFIC PACT PROSPECT
Possible Result Of The Brussels Conference
JAPAN'S AMBITIONS
BY BRUNO KROKER
To those who scoffed at the existence of "Japanese aggression" in China, and for those who insisted that Chinese fears of Japanese encroachment were without basis, the answer was given in August this year, in Shanghai, in Shantung, in Shansi and along the nor- thern borders of the country where Japanese troops are concen- trated.
The opening of hostilities in all likelihood will be found to have. been a simple act of banditry, carried out in accordance with all the familiar precedents of outlawry in Manchuria a few short years ago.. The Japanese had been thinking of China as a territory of disinte grated provinces, ruled by a group of military tuchtuns or war-lords who perpetasted their power by purchasing the support of leading militarists in the provinces by bribery, and who, nursing their as- pirations for wider power, were in constant strife and competition among themselves,
They were in error, though, and scon found their armles on Chinese soil confronted with an Immovable stone wall of Chinese resistance It has been under the guidance of Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek that the greatest degree of unification in China since the overthrow of the Manchus has teen achieved. With unflagging energy he has encouraged and pushed forward all the varied phases of reconstruction work of recent years -- and while doing these things, as Commander-in- Chief of China's. armies, he has hulit up the most impressive and powerful military machine the nation has ever had.
What perhaps is the surest evidence of the man's real great- ness, is that through all this time
CANTON LEADERS HOLD MEETING.
Canton, Nov. 16. General Yu Han-mou, Comman- der-in-Chief of the Kwangtung 4th Route Army. and General Wu Te- chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government summoned 201 informal meeting with the leaders of the various organiza-. tion this afternoon at the sixth floor of the Arla Hotel.
Resistance against armed ag- gression and the salvation of the nation formed the chief topics of conversations at the meeting. it is learned.
Mayor Tsang Yang-fu and Dr. K. C. Tyau, special delegate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kwangtung are among the leading officials who attended the confer- ence.-
International News Agency..
of swift progress he has kept his feet, firmly on the ground and, profiting by the mistakes of past leaders, has steadfastly remained a practical realist, sceing things clearly as they are and not as he and others would wish them to be.
To do this has required uncom- mon strength of character, for he has had at once "to realst and control 1 veritable hysteria of such bitter opposition that more than once his life has been placed in jeopardy.
HEROIC RESISTANCE
He has gauged with scientific precision the consequences to his country of armed conflict with Japan and is aware, as is every intelligent military observer, that with all of the great military, power that China has built up, she is still decades away, in modera war machinery and equipment.
from any hope of dealing Japan a severe blow, in modern warfare. However, the stubborn and heroic resistance put up by the gallant Chinese defenders for fully 75 of heavy days under exposure paval gun fire from the fleet of Japanese warships stationed in'
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CHINESE OFFICIALS LEAVE
BUT MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS TO REMAIN TO LAST
Evacuees Fight For Deck Space On Steamers
FOREIGNERS FACE TRANSPORT DIFFICULTY
NANKING, NOVEMBER 15; IT IS LEARNED THAT THE EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, EXAMINATION AND CONTROL YUANS "ARE MOVING TO CHUNGKING WHILE THE MINISTRIES OF HEALTH, FINANCE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS WILL MOVE TO HANKOW, THE TWO LATTER IN ORDER TO ENABLE CLOSE CONTACT BE KEPT WITH POWERS' REPRESENTATIVES AND FINAN- » CIAL INSTITUTIONS. THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS IS MOVING TO CHANGSHA. SOME OFFICIALS AND THEIR STAFFS ARE LEAVING TO-NIGHT OTHERS ARE FOLLOWING BUT THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS WILL REMAIN IN NANKING TILL THE VERY LAST. FOREIGN EM- BASSIES ARE BUSILY MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO EVACUATE THEIR NATIONALS BUT ARE
·FACING A MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM OF TRANSPORT, FOREIGN STEAMERS WHICH ARE AL- READY FEW IN NUMBER ARE COMPLETELY BOOKED BY EAGER EVACUEES FIGHTING FOR DECK SPACE AND STANDING. ROOM. THERE ARE THIRTY-EIGHT BRITISH NATIONALS HERE AND ABOUT SEVENTY AMERICANS, INCLUDING NINE WOMEN. THE NUMBERS ARE CONSTANT- LY INCREASING AS FOREIGNERS ARE POURING INTO NANKING FROM CITIES AĻONG THE SHANGHAI-NANKING RAILWAY AND HANGCHOW-NANKING HIGHWAY.—RETTEK.
Tsinan, November 16: Chinese forces completed their "withdrawal, to the south bank of the Yellow River yesterday afternoon. Japánése troops are now reported to be close to the north bank of the River.
Fifteen Japanese planes bombed Tawenkow, a strategic point on the Yellow River, whilst six other planes raided Tsinan and Lokow north' of the Shantung" capital on the Yellow River yesterday. -Central News.
Shanghai, November 16: Interest in the war has shifted to Shantung, the capital of which, Tsinan, is now menaced by the Japanese. The seriousness of the situation is Indicated by the fact that the Chinese have blown up the Yellow River bridge from where the Japanese are stated to be only a couple of miles distant. The' removal of the provincial capital' is anticipated.-Reuter.
Shanghal, November 16: "The bodies of slain Chinese soldiers were so numerous that our in-- fantry had difficulty in marching," said a Japanese spokesman describing the advance. At Quinsari the Japanese troops found the bodies of five thousand Chinese soldiers including a major-general and two ́colonels. Six hundred Chinese were taken prisoners at Quinsan also fourteen' fleld · guns-· Reuter.
Shanghai, November 16: Following General Matsui's example, Vice-Adml. Hasegawa, Comman- der-in-Chief of the Japanese Third Fleet, has contributed $10,000 for relief work in the Nantao re- fugee zone where a hundred thousand of the total population are estimated to be destituie.. Mean- « while, although Japanese gendarmes visit the zone to see that nothing detrimental to Japanese interests is going on, Japanese troops have not entered the area though they are in a position to do so ut any time they wish. Father Jacquinot and his committee have formed a small body of specially enrolled Russians to keep order in the zone and have also appealed for funds for relief work-” Reuter.
Tokyo, November 16: The Japanese press are furious over the declaration of the Brussels Con- ference. It is stated that the declaration shows utter disregard for the Japanese contention of the Far East situation and it is added that the conflict must be settled by direct negotiations-Reuter's Bulletin Service.
SOOCHOW A CITY WITHOUT LIGHT
Nanking. Nov. 16; All non-com- batants have evacuated Boochow which is now a city without light and water. The roads were crowd- London Silver Market
ed with refugees streaming towards Nanking on foot, by wheelbarrows, From Our Own Correspondent).
rickshaws, motor-cars and car-
London, Nov. 18.
rlages. Despite the danger of re- London silver prices to-day maining four American mission- werd up 1/16 as follow:-
aries including a woman äre stay- Nov..15.
ing in Boochow superintending the Nov. 16, Spet..
19-5/8 19-11/16 evacuation of patients from the Forward..
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mental hospital.-- . Reuter.
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Japanese Paper Predicts Nanking's Fate
Tokyo, Nov. 16. Commenting on the situation in Central China, the "Asahi Bhim- bun" predicts the early occupation of "Nanking by Japanese forces, and declares academic discussion which tends to inflame and in- stigate -feeling is of no avail
TYPHOON WARNING
The following typhoon warning was issued at 3.30 p.m. yesterday: Typhoon in or about 130 deg. Long. East and 10 deg. Lat. North moving West-North-West
PACIFISM MUST BE AN ACTIVE FORCE
Objects Of Peace Pledge Union
CHANGE OF VIEW NECESSARY IN WORLD AFFAIRS
"As long as Great Britain and America and other countries witch have vast colonial possessions and excess economic re- sources continue to sit, tight on what they hold, and shòw DO willingness to help those nations which lack these benefits, the prospects of lasting peace will be very reinote. They seek to ex- clude others from participating in those resources, yet they have secured the things for themselves by the same methods which they now denounce.”
Thus spoke Mr. David Spreckley in conversation with a "Daily Press" representativé... Mr. Spreckley, who has been closely asso- ciated with the Peace Pledge Union movement in England, is endeavouring to form, with a few friends, a branch of the Union in Hong Kong, in connection with which a public meeting will be held to-morrow at 5.30 p.m. In the Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong Hotel.
"It is clear that there must be a drastic change of view in inter- nation affairs,” said Mr. Spreckley. "I don't mean to say that colonies should be turned over outright to non-possessors. That would be as bad as not giving them, for the same troubles will arise sooner or later. "Bome form of international control is necessary."
VARIETY REVUE
TO-NIGHT
That, however, was only one of the many problems besetting the world which could never be solved until an enlightened public opinion, could express itself, continued Mr. Spreckley. Men must be educated to think not in terms of their own countries but of the world as one interlinked unit, and that all were (Continued on back Page)
COMMANDERS OF DOOMED BATTALION''
DECORATED
Nanking. Nov, 10: Colonel Esleh Ching-yuan and Major Yang Jul-
Good Programme For fa, who recently led the "doomed
Charity Show
An event that has for some time been looked forward to takes place this evening at the Queen's Thea-.. tre at 9.30 pm, when Mrs. Ann Ellis will present a Variety Revue in which many leading local ama teurs are taking part. The concert is in afd of the War Rellef Fund of the Hong Kong Y's Men's Club.
The programme will be as fol- lows:-
Kong Hotel
Overture-Hong
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battalion in a spectacular defence of a godown at Chapel, Shanghai, will each be awarded a war medal bearing, the, national emblem, for their bravery, according to a decl- sion reached at to-day's meeting of the Executive Yuan,
The meeting also decided to Instruct Colonel Haleh and Major Yang to submit a list of the names of the officers and soldiers of the "doomed battalion" to the Yuan for appropriate decorations.- Gentral News.
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in eliminating the real cause of unrest in the Far East and in set-with Dorothy and Dessye Wons
and Agnes Rocha, tling the Sino-Japanese condict.
The newspaper urges the Japan- (2) Rhythm Quartette-Tavares ese nation to solidly unite and Bisters "(Margle, Betty, Thelma and tenaciously pull through until a Irene), settlement is accomplished in con- formity with the actual realitdès "of the situation.---
Reuter
THE PEACE WAGGON HAS A RATHER ROCKY JOURNEY!
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A tart of the kitchen where food for refugees is,prepared.
TO PEACE
There are many olive branches "awaving in the breeze,” but the tin-tacks somehow keep on falling!
(From the "Bulletin "),
A group of women and girl refugees receiving Instructions from their leader before going to the sewing class at the camp.