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New Legislation To Be Introduced
Tokyo, January 25.
The six months reduction in active service hitherio allowed con- scripts in the Infantry who have gone through young men's training institutes, is to end through an amendment to the conscription law which will be presented in the Diet.
serve as long as Graduates of institutes will be compelled to young men who have not attended them for one year, ten months and twenty days. The change will affect those who entered barracks in January.
The
General War Minister. Sugiyama, explains that when the conscription law was passed in 1927 the training of infantry was to relatively simple compared other branches of the Army and thus, it did little harm to deduct six months from the service term of
had who conscripts
gone through young men's training in- stitutes or schools equal or superior to them.
Today, however, he points out, Infantry equipment has become markedly more complicated and the Infantry was become much
JARDINE
RESIDENCES'
CLOSE SHAVE
Bombs Shatter All Windows
Hankow, Jan. 25.
It is learned that all the win- dows in the Jardine. Matheson &
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relation to more important in
branches and other
its that strategy is infinitely more complex. Thus, it is impossible to give ad- equate training to conscripts in a year and six months. even if they have been drilled in young men's training Institutes.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938.
NO POLITICAL
| DEMONSTRATION
League Council Sessions
London. Jan. 25.
That neither Britain nor France desires to make use of the 100th session of the Council of the League of Nations, which will be opened on Wednesday by the President, the. Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Iran, for a political demonstration of loyalty to the League principles has been torne out by the outcome of Monday's meeting of the British Cabinet.
According to the London press on Tuesday morning, an attempt will be made to avoid anything in the nature of a political demon- stration. It is hoped in fact that the session will confine itself strictly to the agenda without raising thorny" questions.
from
SCOTS HONOUR BURNS KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
Governor Pays Tribute To National Poet
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING AT
ANNUAL DINNER
"The toast to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns was proposed by His Excellency the Governor, Sh Geoffry Northcote, at the Burns' Night Dinner at the Peninsula Hotel last night.
Emphasising the humanity of Burns both as a män and poet, His Excellency said that the bard not only showed a humane feeling ld anything concerning his fellow men but also his fellow creatures. On one occasion, he said, Burns even had a kind word to say about the Devil himself! --
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The large and distinguished gathering was presided over by Atholl MacGregor, Chieftain of St. Andrew's Society. In addition to His Excellency the Burns to propose to the toast of Governor, there were present at the venerable Scottish bard. the Chieftain's table Bir Edward have come to the conclusion that Ellington, G.C.B. CMG., C.BE. this is a result of that 'working The "Daily Telegraph" under-
Marshal of the Royal Air Force. hypothesis'. stands that apart
the H.E. Vice-Admirai L. G. E. Crabbe, Spanish and Far Eastern issues Acting Commander-in-Chief of the the British Cabinet also. discussed
China Station, H.E. Major-General at its Monday session the question A. W. Bartholomew, General Officer of Anglo-American relations Commanding. Mr. A. E. Southard, whereby it was decided to send Dr. G. D. R. Black. Hon. Mr. M. T. two British cruisers to represent Johnson. Rev! E. McKenzie Dow. the British Navy at the forth Mr. G. & Archbutt, Major V. E coming American Naval manoeu-Duclos, Mr.. B. Wylie, Mr. E. P. H. vres in reply to a courtesy shown Lang. Mr. A Stevenson, Mr. W. SOLDIERS DIE by the United States in sending Kay. Mr. L. Dunbar, Mr. C. G. Sollis experience while I was in British
It had often been proposed, the War Minister declares, that their service period should be extended to the full two years and today circumstances were such that had no alternative but to put that pro- posal into effect.- Reuter.
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Battle On Wuhu Front
Hankow, Jan. 25. The Chinese forces' advance on Tsining is being continued accord- the Chinese ing to reports from Tront.
On the Wuhu front stubborn Co.'s residences at Ichang, which, are situated near the airfield, ap-ghting is being continued. Chin- ese and Japanese troops were en- proximately 200 yards distant, were blown to smithereens by the ex-gaged in sanguinary hand-to-hand plosions during the Japanese air aghting on Tuesday morning but no raid yesterday. Several of the ground seems to have been gained missiles dropped uncomfortably by either side. close.
The Chinese were supported by the air force which, in co-operation with the artillery, bombarded con- centrations
to
two cruisers
the British and Mr. E. 8. Carter. manoeuvres at Singapore.—, Transocean News Service.
IMPORTANT TALKS
"I wish to make perfectly clear that I do not attempt to enter Into a discussion of Burns' poetry for more than one reason. There are, first, a large number present who might be described as Burns fans', to put it in the horrible The second modern English.
reason I think is better illustrated by an episode within my personal
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The Chieftain in calling upon His
Was certain learned Excellency to propose the toast. judge, who, when he was asked as said:
to whether he" understood what a "We have with us tonight several | particularly loquacious inwyer said, distinguished guests who are enjoy-replied. I understand what he ing their first Burns night dinner | says, but I don't understand what In Hong Kong" said the Chieftain, he means!" Sir Atholl MacGregor, in his ad- dress of welcome. "His Excellency the Governor has not only honour- ed us by attending, but has very kindly consented to make the It is thoughtspeech of the evening, a treat to that above all the question of which we are all very keenly look-
ing forward. reform of the League of Nations by dropping Article 16 relating to sanctions will be discussed at the request of several smaller Powers.
Paris, Jan. 25. Political circles here attach con- siderable Importance to the Paris conversations between the British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Eden, the French Premier, M. Chantemps, and the French Foreign Minister. M. Yvon Delbos,
The Far East conflict will also claim the attention of Mr. Eden. There are three or four other
M. Chautemps and M. Delbos, foreign-owned buildings situated
Political circles think that there of Japanese troops round the airfield which is some
Council near Wuhu. Three hundred Japan-is the possibility of the way back from the water-front in low-lying hills. The palatial pro- ese soldiers are reported to have considering the reappointment of the so-called Committee of 2K perty of the Asiatic Petroleum.been killed during this action.
This Committee was set up to Company at present not being used Japanese warships on the Yang-
deal with the Manchuria conflict. by the company, is situated closest. tae shelled Chinese positions ber
It is further thought that the tween Wuhu and Lukang and are Only a member of the A.P.C. staff
Ministers will consider the report said to have inflicted losses upon is at the installation.
of the former Belgian Prime Minis- the Chinese--
ter. M. Paul Van Zeeland, which is to be published on Thursday. It contains suggestions for creating an organisation to bring about
cial co-operation.
The manager lives two miles down-stream on the water-front.
PORRO CAR.
Other foreigners are mostly ship $1,000,000. FOR
ping and customs people and many The British Con- missionaries.
sulate was closed about a month PANAY OUTRAGE international economic and finan-
ago and the area is a present un-
der the Hanków Consul-General.--- Reuter
NAMTAU
BOMBARDED
Japanese Planes
Washington, Jan. 25
Pending compilation of a de- finite report on the condition or the wounded in the Panay incident, the indemnity figure has not been fixed.
Officials decline to comment, but precedent would place the aum in the neighbourhood of a million dollars. No punitive
And Ships Active damages are contemplated.
Reuter.
"The Japanese are bombing and shelling Namtau" That was the In message" received by a rellabic source in the Colony yesterday and when enquiries were made at the
Water Police Station by a Dally Press "representative, he was in
formed that such was the report they had received from the Ping- shan Station. Beyond that, how- ever, no official information was obtainable.
From a Chinese source it was learned that Namtau was raided by Japanese planes which took off from an aircraft carrier in the vicinity yesterday forenoon and that a warship, stated to belong to the cruiser class, shelled the place heavily.
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JUNES CHASED
report to the Harbour Ofice, To Wähishing, master of junk No. 382H said that at about 11 am. on January 22, while his cruft was near Liritin Islands, his junk was chased and boarded by a Japanese motor boat's crew.
After boarding the junk, the Japanese sailors removed two can- nons, 5 pounds of gunpowder, fuses, Ave chickens, and two geese.
No injuries were sustained by any of the crew, nor was the junk damaged.
FIRE REPORTED
Canton, Later. The invading planes came in two groups directly from the base with the possible intention of hitting the airfield and were not merely en route to bomb the Canton- Hankow Railway.
A re has broken out between Tungshan and Shekpl
Foreign observers are reported to have felt the shock of the ex- plosions near the frontler yester- day and though confirmation was not obtainable, up to a late hour last night, the Police officers The official report regarding the stationed at Pingshan are stated to damage is not yet available.-- have said that some windows 'in | Reuter. Fingshan were shattered by the concussion, following the explosion
of the bombs and shell.
NAMTAU PREPARED
TRAIN MACHINE-GUNNED
Canton, Jan. 25, A lone Japanese bomber, nying from Kwonghot, in Toishan dis
Due to the fact that this attack (trict, machine-gunned a passenger had been expected for some time, train which had just pulled into
The question of "Sanjak of Alexandretta could also come up for discussion, as France is anxious to reach a settlement in this matter.-. Transocean News Service.
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"When I read Burns' postry," continued His Excellency," "the converse is the case. 1.understand what he means but I do not understand what he snys!"
"WITH ALL THY FAULTS" His Excellency sald that he had recently read many authorities on the poet, and he had been struck by one note which haunted all their comments. "Robert, with all thy faults, I love thee still!!”
"Bir Edward Ellington, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, only arrived in the Colony yesterday. To all of us, it is a most happy coincidence that his very brief visit to Hong
There were many famous people Kong should cover this Scottish that stood out among their fellow anniversary. We are very grateful { men in a sort of self-isolation, to him for coming here tonight. Others there were who fived "Vice-Admiral Crabbe also is a among the people intensely. They newcomer to our festivities though | mingled with all, their whole life we have all watched and admired his recent work on the Yangtse. We are proud to have him here tonight.
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"Mr. Southard, Consul General of
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scenes which, he described.
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DECLARATION
OF WAR BY JAPAN
Hirota On Far
· East Situation
“JAPAN WANTS
HER OWN WAY”
Do Powers Want China Saved By Russia?
London, Jan. 25. "On behalf of the members of St.
That was an important feature
The "Birmingham Post ** au- Andrew's Eoclety may I say how concerning Burns, which gave him
Tokyo, Jan. 25.
ming up the Japanese Ministers' glad we are to see Dr. Black our such an appeal for all kinds of The question of the eventual de- smooth assurances to foreign Fow senior resident ex-Chieftain with people. As with his poetry, so claration of war by Japan on China | ers says: "In a word Japan just us again, fald Sir Atholl MacGrewith his philosophy. He express- was discussed in the House of gor. "I offer him the sincere greeted thoughts which were in the Peers yesterday by the Foreign ings of the Society which he has so
common mind, though he express- | Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, who de- cerned Japanese policy has falled long adorned
"ECONOMIC LEAGUE"
London, Jan. 25. The plan of
"Economie
"On a personal note. I want to League of Nations" to include the
express my pride at seeing so many United States is disclosed in the "Evening Standard" In connection Kilts of the tartan of the clan to with the forthcoming meeting of
which I have the honour to belong. the League Council in Geneva.
To my three clansmen at table' No. The "Economie League of Na-11 I offer my thanks and my foli-
citations." tions," the paper suggests, should assemble once a year but not
at Geneva and would be entirely independent of the existing League which, however, would be charged with taking preliminary steps for its creation.-
Transocean News Service.
Sir Atholl MacGregor concluded by asking His Excellency the Gov- ernor to propose the toast of the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns.
ed them in remarkable language.
TOAST OF THE LASSIES
The toast of The Lassies was
said
proposed by Professor W. Brown (see page 1).
Responding, Mr. A. J. G. Taylor "Professor Brown inform- ed us at the beginning of his he knew nothing speech that about lassies. Continuance of that speech, however, has convinced me, and I think everyone else here, GOVERNOR'S SPEECH
that his knowledge of the queans Rising to propose the principal is not far from being complete, toast, HLE. the Governor said that "He certainly knows all he he was deeply conscious of the should know about them as a great honour which the Chieftain
bachelor, probably more. In my had done him by asking him to opinion, he is suficiently ripe for perform such an honourable plucking, and were I a girl, I would function.
bring into play every atom or "There is a story told of; a Scot-strategy I could muster for the tish divine who being interested purpose of netting such an in- in both mental and moral philo-tellectual stalwart. sophy, used to open his prayers by "Behind" his repartee and in- saying, 'O Lord, who was once our genious wit, I think I detect con- Hauchow, Jan... 25. Creator and Working Hypothesis","cealed an intense respect for the Chinese mobile units succeeded said His Excellency.
ladies; an intensity which, in his "This is. In' many respects, a last night in cutting communica-*-
amorous adventures, using his own tions of the Japanese at Tsouhsien. sound piece of philosophy. But..I words, might have been the reason Taining, Yenchow, Chufu and Sze- wonder why an Englishman from why he never could enrapture his shul, which were also enveloped, a county in the south should be fast fine capture.
about These towns are located in Shan-expected to know much tung along the Tientsin-Pukow Hallway,
CHINESE MOBILE
· UNITS
Succeed In Cutting Communications
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The ladica do not like too much respect if given at the expense of the cave-man in you, and I under- stand that a little rough handling
you the more.""
wants her own way in China with China So far as China is con-
clared that the present situation | badly. Despite the divisions which gave Japan the opportunity in China, under Japanese pressure
in the Far East did not fall with- In the scope of the laws of war as
discovered she has a friend is.. defined by international law al-ahe rediscovered her soul. She also
Russia."
though there was no doubt that a war on a large scale existed
Japan, however, differentiated. between the Central Chinese Goy- ernment and the Chinese nation. Should Japan declare war on China certain rules relating to neatrality and affecting third parties would automatically come into force and it was in consideration of her own
International relations that Japan had hitherto refrained from de- claring war'on China.
The Minister stressed "that those Powers who desired a speedy ter- mination et hostilities and re- establishment of peace in the Far East had prohibited the supply of war material to the belligerents. ~ Mr. Hirota concluded by saying that even taking into consideration the peculiar situation in the Far East it was the duty of the Japan- ese Government to carefully watch the attitude of those Powers who still continued to supply arms and munitions to China--- Transocean News Service.
IN MEDITERRANEAN DOW and again makes them love AMBASSADOR'S.
Torpedo Under British Steamer's Hull
Fierce attacks were launched on SUBMARINE ATTACK
and yesterday, Tsaubalen Japanese are now entrenching in the southern outskirts of the city.
The Chinese column attacking Yenchow farther north of Tsou- hsien switched southward in order to attack-Tsouhrien in the rear,
it is understood that the author- the Choumaying station on the
50 PRODUCTS ties in Namtau had made full pre- Canton-Samshut Rallway at 9.10
Washington, Jan. 25. parations to keep off any invaders a.m."
Malta, Jan. 25. A supplementary list of products, and to that end had strongly The passengers had all fled to fortified the area with a series of the open fields for safety when the
The counter-offensive in south- An unknown submarine is un-on which the United States will pill-boxes and machine-gun em- plane appeared overhead and no west, Shantung is also underway officially reported to have attacked, consider granting tarif reductions placements which were considered one was injured.
with the Chinese attack on Tai- without warning, a 3,000-ton Bri to Great Britain, has been issued strong enough to keep off a land- Other groups of Japanese planes. ning, the terminus of the branch tish steamer, Lake Geneva, in the by the State Department which
numbering over 20, continued to of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. western Mediterranean.
add that no further reductions will ing party of considerable size. Although no information
The submarine was on the sur- be made in any export duty which is raid the Canton-Hankow rallway. Vanguard of Chinese units have available, regarding the number' of today. According to reports at reached the west bank of the Tau-face, and at a range of 300 yards, has already been reduced by 50 Chinese troops stationed in Nam- hand, the invaders were sighted shan Lake canal, while the Japan- fred a torpedo which passed under per cent, under the previous autho- tau, reliable quarters give the im-over Kuntien. Bocca Tigris. Fat-ese are holding the line on the op- the steamer's holl and then sub-rity of the Trade Agreements pression that the place is well gar-shan. Klukiang and other districts porite shore of the waterway.-
International News Agency. rleaned.
In the province-Central News.
merged Router.
Act.
Reuton!
Attacking the Western PowEIB" inertia in the war, the "Birming- ham Post" aska; “Do the Powers want China dominated by Japan
·in an alliance with Germany and Italy or do they want China to he
saved by Russia.”--
Bruter.
JAPANESE UNIT ROUTED
Chengchow, Jan. 23.
A unit of Japanese troops, march." ing towards the Taheng Mountain
in an attempt to clear up the
Chinese guerilla troops there, was
surrounded and routed recently at
Kangyeh near Whan in north Ho- nan by other Chinese guerilla unita operating in the vicinity.
They left a large number of army behind.---Central News:
CHINESE TROOPS
CONCENTRATE
Shanghai, Jam, 2550 According to Chinese reports re- NARROW ESCAPE ceived here this morning, Chinese troops, on the Anhwel front, are attempting to isolate Taining; and Shanghai, Jan. 25, The Soviet Ambassador, M.block the Japanese reinforcements Luganets Oreisky, and party, re from the north.
Meanwhile, Japanese turned to Hankow from Chungking !
planes shortly after noon to-day, from Nanking report a big concen- It is learned here that" the | tration of: Chinese troops at Peng- plane carrying the Soviet Ambassahu, the first major Japanese ob- dor to Bankow from Chungking Sective, from the south, and it is made a forced landing at Tchang believed that,, owing to the over- just before the Japanese air raid, whelming numerical strength of the A bomb from a Japanese plane ex-Chinese forces, the Japanese wifi. ploded near the Ambassador and await still further reinforcements, his staff who had a very close before undertaking 4 further *Escape ----Reuter.
large-scale offensive. Reuter,