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DECEMBER 29, 1937.叁拜禮 玖廿月弍拾年世佰玖仟豆英 Price
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MARKED SUPERIORITY OF CHINESE AVIATORS OVER THE JAPANESE
JAPANESE STORY NOT ACCEPTED
BY AMERICA
London, Dec. 28: The “Man- chester Guardian" states that the United States Government walle accepting the Japanese apology for the bombing and sinking of the USS. Panay has made it clear that It does not and will not accept the Japanese story,
The Japanese authorities, saya the paper, should not think that they have safely paclited the American people. There is nothing in the American press or in the actions of the United States Gov- ernment to suggest that they have, the paper concludes.— Bruter.
JAPANESE LAND
NEAR MACAO
Macao, Dec. 28: After shelling. It the Japanese landed 200 marines, -on Wongeum Island, employing motor-towed skiffs from one cruiser, one transport and two des- troyers. No report from the Portuguese authorities there, where
the Portuguese possess rights, has get been received.---
Reuter.
Wongcum is part of an faland close to Macao. The Island is half Chinese and called Wongeum and the
Scene outside the South Gate after the Japanese assault on Nanking.
CO-OPERATION BETWEEN
카
BRITAIN AND U.S.
| FACTOR TO BE RECKONED BY
POTENTIAL AGGRESSORS
Portuguese half Is called Yangtse Outrages Stiffened And Shocked
Montana.
SOUND OF. HEAVY ARTILLERY
Macao, Dec. 28. Macao was awakened at 5.20 this morning by the sound CI heavy artillery ten miles south- west of the city and south of
Wongeam Island.
Seven shots were fired.--- Restar
CANTON SCEPTICS
Canton, "Dec. 28.
Nearly two days have passed
since Japanese vessels were sight- ed near Macao and the fear spread that a landing might be attempt- ed, and still there is no official word of it having occurred.
Exhaustive Inquiries la Chinese quarters reveal comparative un- concern at this latest alarm. The
Public Opinion
•
London, December 28: Closer co-operation between countries pledged to uphold a democratic form of government, particular-, ly that between Britain and the United States, is the subject of lengthy comments in the "Times" which discusses future relations between Japan and Americs in the light of events in the Far East. The paper says that it is an undoubted fact that the Yangtse outrages have considerably helped to form and mould the views of foreign Governments apart from having stiffened and shocked public opinion outside Japan,
Indeed, adds the "Times", they, have not been without effect on-public oplaton In Japan.
Th policy which Japan has elect- ed to pursue in the Far East pre- scribes a course which of necessity
will have to be adopted by other Powers. In this sense, concludes the "Times," the United States and Britain, which have the same in- terests to defend, will ace them-
selves obliged to proceed along parallel unea,
The "Daily Telegraph" comment-
consensus of opinion seems to being on New York's appeal says that if the two democracies, Britaiņı and that the Japanese threat to South
the United States, agree to act in China is diminishing rather than increasing and shops and other consort it is because they claim a establishments of Canton which big share of interest in preserving closed after the September raids peace in the Far East. are gradually reopening.
In view of the possibility of the Invasion of South China several foreign newspermen have arrived Eere, including "United Press" and ***Associated Press" representa- tives.- Reuter.
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The "Daily Herald" says, that co-operation with the United States on the present scale and intensity did not exist at all one year ago. it has already become with which every potential aggres- sor would have to reckon.
a factor
The "News Chronicle," in refer ence to the same subject, is of the opinion that although the big de- ANTI-GOD MOVEMENT mocracies are determined to re- tain their Independence of action they are bound to proceed along parallel lines-anything over and above this cannot be expected in view of the present state of Ameri- can public opinion. Transocean News Service.
The anti-God. movement in Soviet Russia is being carried out with much determination, it being learned that the authorities have raised the Church Tax by 120 per cent in the hope that the churches will close down rather than carry on under such severe financial strain.
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FRANCO DECLARES
AMNESTY
TRAM OFF THE RAILS
FOREIGNERS
SAFE
TRANSMISSION
OF MESSAGES
Ground Organisation
The Weak Point
LIGHT-FUSED BOMBS WROUGHT HAVOC
t
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Accustomed though the Colony now is to the tales of horror and destruction that reach us daily from all parts of China, consequent on the War of aggression that is being waged on the country by the Japanese, the following story, told to me by a foreign resident in Nanking who arrived in the Colony yesterday, gives new perspective of the conditions that ob- tain in war-torn China to-day."""
JAPANESE CLAIM TO NAVAL EQUALITY
Upheld In Italian Press
Rome. Dec. 28: The Japanese claim to naval equality with BE- tain and the United States is upheld by Gayda, writing in, the "Giornale D'Italia who declared. "We don't see why Japan should herself level to the British and American navies: Opposition to equal arming means opposition to Japan's equal righta and "aspirations in the world."- Neuter Bulletin Service. ·
not
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TO CHEER THE TROOPS
Officials From Yokohama
My informant, who is well-qualified to speak on the sub- ject, states that the Chinese army has plenty of small arms and ammunition, but where they are so badly handicapped is their lack of artillery. The Japanese, on the other hand, are well provided with these very necessary weapons of war, and their artillery is good. They shell and bomb the Chinese aut of their positions and the rapidity with which they move up their artillery has surprised everybody. Japanese planes have been so As has been stated so many active along the Nanking-Shang-times since the outbreak of hos-Japanese soldiers in Central China, hai Road that this has been very tilities, the Chinese in the air are
seven members of the Yokohama
ነና
1. Bringing
encouragement
.to
Tightening Up The badly knocked about and in parts far superior to the Japanese but Municipal Assembly, led by Mr."
Regulations.
almost impassable, while the road from Nanking to Chinklang WAS as recently as a week ago, Uttered
away from Nanking. with refugees making their get
With a view to preventing con stant transmission from certain
Up to about two weeks ago the foreign ships here to their home Japanese air force were using a governments the Hong Kong Gov type of bomb that made a very ernment has tightened up regula-big hole in the ground, con- tions preventing the use of radio sequently the explosion was some- apparatus aboard this in these what delayed but they are now
waters:
Regulations issued under the Telecommunication Ordinance of 1938 prohibited the use of wireless apparatus. by all British and for- egn ships, except warships, while they were within the harbour limits.
New regulations were issued yes terday morning prohibiting the use of such apparatus anywhere with- in Hong Kong waters..
Immediately ships enter Hong Kong Waters they will be required to close down their wireless in- stallation, which may not be used Twenty-two Occidentals, includ-again until the ship leaves British ing Germans, Americans, and waters, unless for reasons of sate- White Russians, were in Nanking ty of life at sea.
IN NANKING
on Dec. 16, a Japanese milltary spokesman announced yesterday morning, states the "North China
Dally News" of December 24. Most of them, he said, were presumed to be remaining there.
Classified according to nation- ality, they were: fourteen Amer- cans, stx Germans and two
White Russians. Their names were given as follows:-
Mr. John H. D. Rabe. German, Siemens Company; Mr. Christian Kroger, German, Carlowitz and
SPANISH WAR
JJ
Port Beu Shelled
London, Dec. 28: Insurgent war-
ships fired ex shells on Port Beu
ported. Where considerable damage is re-
Government
reports Indicate
Company; Mr. Edward Sperlinging out in two buildings in Teruel
that the Insurgents are still hold German. Shanghai Insurance while the Insurgents claim that Kiesseling and Bader Company: Company: Mr. Taussig, German, their relief forces are advancing Mr. Hempel, German, North Hotel: losses to the Government forces.
02 Teruel, and causing heavy Mr. R. R. Hatz, German, mechanic employed in safety zone; Mr. Cola Podshivoloff. White Russian, Sand- gren's Electrical Shop: Mr. Zell. White Russian, mechanic employ-inflicted a veritable carnage on ed in safety zone; Mr. Charles H.
the Government positions- Riggs, American, University of
Reuters Bulletin Service Nanking: Dr. M. S. Bates, Ameri- can. University of Nanking: Dr.
(Continued on page 9).
H.M.S. TAI MO SHAN
Season's Work As Sailing Tender Concluded
A report from Barcelona states that Insurgent planes are less ac- tive on that front but Balamanca
asserts
that Insurgent aircraft
| INSURGENTS ATTACK FRENCH SHIP Destroyer Rushes To Assistance
using a 250-pound bomb with-an' astonishingly light fuse and there are playing havoc with the civilian population who are being attack- ed mercilessly from the air.
ARMOUR-PIERCING BULLET The Japanese air force have got an armour-piercing bullet with a copper core and this, according to my informant, has a magnificent penetration.
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Arrivals By "Capetown
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REFUGEE CRUISER IN PORT
The following refugees, arrived In the Colony yesterday by HM.S. Capetown from North China:
Dr. and Mrs. Henry McUielland and Marion, aged 2 (Hankow); Mrs. Barbara Strong and Anne, aged 2 (Hankow)*; Mrs. Mary Hall and Honor, aged 6, Anne, aged 7, Jane, aged 1) and Bridget, aged five months (Hankow); Mrs. Bunty Purry and Daphne, aged 7 and Poppy Barson and John, aged 11 Marilyn, aged 6 (Hankow); Mrs. (Hankow); Miss "Peter" Dewa- bury
months (Wuchang); Mrs. Cherry- (Hankow)*; Mrs. Connie Richardson and Thomas,, aged 11
·Billinghurst and Jennifer, aged 6 months (Hankow); Mrs. Hullard (Nanking)*; -Mrs. Roberta Sandler and Melvin, aged 6 and Julia, aged 17 months; Mr. Peter Proby (Wu- hu)*: Mrs. Kathleen Davies and Geoffrey, aged 2} (Hankow); Mrs. Elsie Drew and George, 4 months
(Hankow)*; Mr. Brian Reid Konan)*; Mrs. Dorothy Clegg and Anthony, aged 3 (Hankow)*; Bald March and Reginald, aged 24 (Hankow)*; Mrs. Bunty Marshall and Christopher," "aged" 6 weeks' (late Nanking)*; Mrs. Evelyn Paris, Dec. 29: The
French Moyles (late Nanking)"; Mrs. steamer Yolande was fired on by Annte Hariwood and Charles, aged re-Insurgent warships whereupon she 3 months (Tayen); Mr. and Mrs. wirelessed for help. She was or Shields (Nanking)* Mrs. Jessle dered by the Insurgents to lower Williams and Peter, aged 2 and her aerials and to be escorted by Anne, aged 4 months (Hankow); the warships when a French des-Mrs. Mary Owen (Hankow)*; Mrs. This little vessel of 23 tons was troyer appeared on the scene in Anne Logan, mirse to Rosemary, built at the Kowloon Docks, Hong answer to her call for assistance aged 10 and Melmel, aged 8. Kong, for five naval officers who and escorted the Yolande to a Blandford (Hankow): Mrs. Ethel
A slight dislocation of tramway traffic, resulting in the holding up of several west bound. cars, was News was received in the Colony caused by the partial derailment last, evening to the effect that the of tram No. 80, at the junction of Xmas amnesty law, declared by Hennessy Road and Tin Lok Lane
The ketch Tai Mo Shan has General Franco affected 25 men at 6.15 p.m. yesterday. The cause cently been paid off at Portsmouth who were recently sentenced to of the accident is understood to on the conclusion of her season's death.
be an error in the switching of rails work as sailing tender to HM.8.
Dolphin, submarine depot at that point. The breakdown gang soon arrived on the scene and the car was righted within ten minutes. No one was injured.
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R.M.A. DAEDALUS.
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The R. M. A. Daedalus arrived at 2.15 pm. yesterday from Penang with two passengers from Bangkok and 562.053 kilos of mall and 8.900 kilos of freight aboard. ̈'
received permission to return home French port.
| in her on concluding their servics | Reuter's Bulletin Service.
on the China Station. }
Hutcheon and fan, aged 12. Robin, aged & and Patrick, aged 2 (Han- kow); Mrs. Y. T. Loke and Ah
She left on May 31 1933, and Martyn Sherwood, who was in Ding, aged 3 (Hankow). Also son arrived at Dartmouth a year later command.
|born at "10.10a.m., on Christmas
after covering 16,000 miles under The ketch was purchased by the Day-weight 7 lbs. Attended by her own sail.
Admiralty to afford experience to Dr. McClelland and Mrs. Richard- A book on the voyage was pub-funtor officers in handling a small son. lished in 1935 by Lieut.-Comdr: ship under sað).
*Disembarked at Woosung.
their organisation is poor in that Minezo Hirano, arrived here on When the alarm is sounded they Tuesday afternooh aboard the sa never take to the air quickly
Nagasaki Maru, says the "North enough with the result that their China Daily News" of December 23. machines are bombed On the Mr. Hirano brought messages ground. This" ia, in a large mea-addressed to Gen. Iwane Matsui sure, due to the slowness of their and Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasega- Intelligence Department in giving W, respectively Commander-in- Chiat of the Japanese Expedition- ary Force in Central China and ese China Sea Fleet. commander-in-Chief of the Japan
the air raid warning.
between the pilots of the two To draw one special comparison
countries, "the Japanese airmen
During a three weeks" tour Mr. 7000 feet at an angle of about 45 possible, he said. The group left will dive from a height of 6000 to
Hirano will go as far as Nanking if degrees but the Chinese pilot, who Yokohama on December 18. while has been properly taught, always another delegation despatched by banks on his wing and then dive the Yokohama Assembly went to vertically onto his target, regard-North China on a similar mission. less of the height he may be flying at the time.
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MAURICE RAVEL
DEAD
Paris, Dec. 28: The death has occurred of M. Maurice Ravel, the distinguished French composer, He was well-known for his impres- Monist orchestration and the most famous of his composiitons is the familiar "Bolero." M. Ravel has also written a great deal of plano music which is of more than trän- sitory value.--
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
Representing Shinto priesta throughout Japan. Mr. Shinichi Ohta, manager of the Japan Shin- to Priests Association, also arrived here in the Nagasaki" Maru to en- courage troops at the front,
THE DOLLAR
TT. ON NEW YORK: 30-15/16 ET. ON LONDON: 13: 2.7/3.
London Silver Market
(From Our Own Correspondent).
London, Dec. 28. London allver prices. to-day were down 1/4 for "Spot" and 1/8 for "Forward," as follow:-
Dec. 24. Dec. 28. ..18-7/16 .18-1/4
Spot......... Forward,
18-3/16 18-1/8
Scene inside the South Gate in Nanking following the Japanese"
'attack.