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ADMIRALTY
WARNING TO
KING SEES
JAPANESE
WARSHIPS COMPELLED
TO OPEN FIRE
Admiral Noda's Statement
Tokyo, March 10.
Japanese warships henceforth will be compelled to fire on foreign aeroplanes flying over them.
This statement was made today by Rear-Admiral Noda, the spokesman for the Admiralty.
Admiral Noda added that planes of third Powers must positively The refain from flying over Japanese warships In China waters. Chinese Air Force, explained Admiral Noda. consisted of planes of foreign manufacture-British, American and Soviet-and therefore it is extremely difficult for Japanese warships to distinguish them from those owned by third Powers. Two cases of such misappre- hension was cited by the spokesman.
Special Trip By Daedalus To Pick Up Stranded Mail
EXTRA AIR POST FROM H.K. TODAY 1
Arriving at Hong Kong at 11 a.m. today, the R.M.A. Daedalus will leave almost immediately for Hanoi to pick up on the way the malls and passengers stranded at Fort Bayard as the result of the mishap to the Delphinus on Tues- day.
It was hoped that the Daedalus might reach the Colony yesterday afternoon un A one-day flight from Bangkok, but she was delay- ed by bad weather.
When she leaves today the Daedalus will carry a small sup. plementary mall from Hong Kong which is closing at 9 a.m.
The mail from the Delphinus will catch the week-end service to Australla and London at Bangkok, and will arrive three days late In Australia and four days late in London.
Normal services will be resumed
on Tuesday.
Shanghai, March' 10.
over
On February 21, he said, a Japanese plane observed a foreign made
flying machine Japanese warship and, therefore, took it to be a Chinese plane. When about to attack, the Japan. ese pilot realised that the plane British and desisted from Fattacking it.
was
Another such case, the Admiral continued. occurred last year when a plane of unknown nationality few over a Japanese warship and
ese warship fred on the said plane only to and that the bombs were smoke bombs.
ISSUES
Censorship MURDER AT Demand By
BAY VIEW Japanese
HILLSIDE
NEWS ITEMS FOR" PUBLICATION IN CHINESE PRESS
Shanghai, March 10. Japanese censors have cir- cularised foreign news agencies. in Shangbal demanding that as from tomorrow two copies of all news items translated into Chinese, for publication in the Chinese press, be submitted to 'Japanese censory, before their issue to the Chinese
press.
never
TWO BROTHERS INVOLVED
One Dead, And Other Wounded
HUEN KON-WAN, AGED 21, un- jemployed, dieeding profusely from a ranshot wound in his back rush- ed Into the charge room of the Bay View Police Station shortly be fore I o'clock this morning with the report, that he had been attacked by three men.
FASTEST
BOMBER
FOREIGN
London, March 10.
The King is spending today touring five shadow factories in connection with the production of aircraft, under the rearmament programme.
This morning His Majesty visit- ed factories near Birmingham and Coventry and saw what is claimed to be the fastest single-engined bomber, which has a speed, with la full bomb load, of over 250 miles
per hour-(Reuter Bulletin).
TERRORISM IN SHANGHAI
FRENCH POLICE SEIZE ARMS
Shanghai, March 10.
The Japanese claim they are only taking over power formerly exercised by Chinese censors though actually Chinese censors claimed the right to scrutinise copy before their issue, HUEN KON-HING, AGED 22, also The agencies have forwarded the unemployed, and an elder brother documents to the respective au- of the man who made the report, thorities, and in the meantime in-was by this time lying dead on the One sub-machine gun with three tend to ignore the Japanese de- hillside above the Asiatic Petroleum hundred cartridges, four fully load mand.-(Reuter).
Company Installation in the Bayed mausers and a quantity of loot View districi. He too had been at- was seized by parties of French tacked by this murderous gang police, in the course of three suc- who, up to the time of going to cessful raids in the underworld last press, were reported to be still at night, large.
The operations started at 10 p.m. The younger brother was sent to and terminated at 4 o'clock this the hospital almost immediately morning. but he could give no explanation Nine men and two women, sus- why he and his brother should pected of being armed robbers, have been so attacked.
were ar.ested. So far they are. Enquiries from the station, can- not suspected of having taken part cerned at 1.30 a.m. elicited the in- in the recent terror`sm, but records formation that the gang comprised are being carefully scrutinised.
(Continued on Page 9)
(Reuter).
dropped some bombs. The Japan Threatening Note To French Postal Commissioner
Admiral Noda concluded by ex-
pressing the hope that such un- fortunate incidents would not be repcated in the future.—(Reuter);
Neutrality
Act Should
Be Invoked
Empress Visitor Discusses
China Trouble
Shanghai, March 10, Mr. A.M. Chapelain, French Postal Commissioner for the Shanghai area, yesterday received a threa- tening note In Chinese signed by the Commander of the Young Patriots Corps.
The note, which was addressed to Mr. Chapelain personally, threa tened violence unless steps Are taken to terminate Japanese cen- sorship immediately.
Mr. Chapelain is paying little at- tention to the letter. He did not
even inform the police, and regard-
JEWEL FRAUD CHARGE
AGAINST BROKER
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(Single Copy, 10 cts.
(Per Month, $3.
AEROPLANES
MR. VERNON BARTLETT
ON THE AIR
Eminent Journalist Tells Of China Visit
FASCINATED WITH COLONY
Mr. Vernon Bartlett, eminent international publicist and diple- matic correspondent of the News Chronicle, who has just returned from a belef. visit to North China. gave a short informal talk from ZBW Studio last night.
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Mr. Bartlett returned from Shanghai yesterday morning and lunched with the Postmaster General (Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones)" during which Mr. Bartlett was "pledged to face the microphone" in the even- Ing.
In the course of his talk Mr. Vernon Bartlett said:-
A week in Hankow, a fortnight in My job at home is to write about
alas. Hong Kong, a couple of days in international affairs, and. we're so taken up with Italy or Canton-no, I shan't be such a fool Germany that we and it dimcultas to say what I think about the or our statesmen and editors find Far East after that sort of ex- it difficult to realise the extent perience. At least I shall only say to which the fate of Europe is be- that in my opinion, it is one of the ing decided in the Far East. That worst tragedies of the after-war escape period that this greatest potential means that I could, only from home for two monthss, and market in the world, China, should, two months (even if you fly all the be threatened with the danger of way from London to Hong Kong sajabsolute chaos when, for the first did) gives you very little time to time since 1911-as the import and expert 'on Chinese export statistics show) it was be- become affairs.
coming slowly more united. better disciplined and better governed,
an
I daresay that, in the process of
SIR ARCHIBALD trying to defend its territory the
CLARK KERR
Departure From Shanghai Is Postponed
Chinese people will become" stili more united (that's very definitely the impression one brings back from. Hankow) but at a cost in Chinese lives and foreign capital which is terrifying and tragic..
HORRIBLY DEVASTATED AREA
atbut I can't say very much Shanghai, because fog delayed my ship so effectively that I arrived there at seven o'clock one evening Owing to transport difficulties, and I had to return to Hong Kong - the British Ambassador to China, at 11 o'clock the next morning-— Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. has surely one of the shortest visits on postponed his departure from record! Shanghai from March 15 to March (Continued on Page 9)
25.
Shanghai, March 10,
The appearance of Ng Tat-sheung, 29-year-old Jewel broker, be- ed the threat of violence as "tan-fore Mr. R. Edwards at Central Magistracy yesterday on five charges tastic."
of fraudulent conversion of jewellery recalled the stir caused in Chin-
Sir Archibald, accompanied by "AL present twenty Japanese se circles in April Jast when he allegedly disappeared with nearly
Lady Clark Kerr, will be leaving censors are entering and leaving $19,000 worth of valuables which had been entrusted to him for sale
Shanghai aboard
the German Mr. J. C. Barnhart, a retired the Post Office at irregular inter- by some of the biggest Chinese, jewel firms in the Colony. business-man from Pennsylvania,vals." såld Mr. Chapelain, but he It will also be recalled that only longing to the Tin Mow arm; e) iner Scharnhorst for Hong Kong. touring the world on the Empress added that the censorship is more a few months ago a young woman. 9 April 19 he converted $2,800 From Hong Kong, His Excellency of Britain, told a Dally Press re-or less psychological as few letters was convicted of receiving some of arm; (d) on the same date $285 kow by train. From Hankow, he worth "belonging to the Ta Hing, will proceed to Canton and Han-i presentative yesterday that con- are actually opened.
the stolen property. ditions in America, when he left
worth belonging to the Fo Hing will travel to Chungking by air. on January 8. were not at all satis-matter has in no way decreased he fraudulently converted $2, worth belonging to the Tal Wing will present his credentials to Mr. The charges against Ng are that Cheong Arm; (e) on April 17 $370 At Chungking, Ha Excellency- factory, the effects of the economic since the inauguration of the cen-675.50 worth of jewellery, property firm. recession not having quite worn off, sors.-(Reuter)."
of the Tin Po firm, to his own use Detective-Inspector L. R. Whänt Jon April 18, 1937; (b) on the same prosecuted and asked for 48 hours' date he fraudulently converted remand in police custody, which jewels to the value of $12,300 bef was granted.
DECAPITATED HEAD FOUND IN CANVAS, BAG
Speaking about the Sino-Jap- anese hostilities; and the effect Another Chinese head, this time they were having on the world in general. Mr. Barnhart said that unaccompanied by the note af warning against anti-Japanese ac- the world was so closely knit that tivity, was found in the French what happened in Concession this morning by a po-must affect conditions in others liceman:
one country
It is worthy of note that mall
ABSOLUTELY MISLEADING
He did not want to say anything AND FANTASTIC No valuable clues have been more about the conflict beyond found which might indicate the merely stating that it would be a identity of the decapitated man or good thing I President Roosevelt his murderers.
would invoke the Neutrality Act.
The head was found in a canvas
bag.
The number of heads found in
.፡-
CAR STOLEN
the Concession arca now total! Mr. A. White has reported to seven. Eefore today none were the police that his car No. 3207 discovered for over a week.
was. stolen from the Statue Square car park last night.
ter).
Reu-
TURNING THE PAGES
must.
Japanese Claim Of Land Occupied
In China
Hankow, March 10. The Japanese announcement made yesterday claiming that their troops had occupied a total ares of 160,000 square kilometres in China is stated by Chinese military circles to be absolutely misleading and fantastic.
It is declared that the Japanese are in possession merely of narrow main roads and that land оп either side is still held by Chinese use knife. | Page 8.-Leading article: New troops, who had been thrust back phase in alt war. It gossip we into the mountainous regions, on account of rapid Japanese ad- Page 9-Nationalist drive on thevance."
Aragon front. Latest cables. Page 10-Sport news and notes. Page 11-Monthly water return. Page 12-New York Quotations Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Page 13.-Radio programmes.
Page 2-No right to
Central Court cases.
Page 3.--Ladies' page.
Pare 4-Bust days in Rome. New Hungarian Government. Chauteps explains. Air Minis- try. inquiry.
Page 5-Cinema notices. Diary of local events. Safeguarding wild life.'
Thele. Chinese troops, it is add- ed, are now able to launch con- tinual attacks on the Japanese rearguard and inflict heavy losses in men and material.
The Japanese report that the Chinese have lost 170,000 men kill- jed and the Japanese only 500 is
lake 6-The Services. Cult of Page 14 and 15 Shipping news also categorically denied, and it
herbs. War on tuberculosis.
tory: Pare ever ballet at King's
tco fantastic to be believed. con-
Theatre.
16-Red Hong Kong Electric Page
Cross workers.sidering that Japanese losses in Home football "fixtures. Company annual meeting. St.
Court engagements at Linfeng Thomas Aquinas.
martial of bandaman. Compra-Houma alone amounted to Hong Kong
dure threatened, architect married.
Arrivals and Clearances. Direc- is asserted that these figures äre
than 2,000.—(Transocean),
and
mort
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Lin Sen. President of the Republic of China.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr hopes to return to Shanghai on April 15.
(Reuter),
Sixteen Smart Bell-hops
THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON 'LONDON: 15. 2.7/80.
TUT, ON NEW YORK: 31.
London Silver Market
(Oor Own Correspondent).
London, March 10. London silver prices today were up 1/18 as follows!—
Mar. 9. Mar. 10. Spot 29-1/8 20-3/15 Forward.. 19-13/18 19-7/8
Snapped In A Row
$34
SERVICE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD is enjoyed by passengers on the luxury liner Empress of Britain. Smart these sixteen inds look lined up on the deck of the cruise ship and smart they are in carrying out their duties. For youngsters of their age, they are
certainly lucky to have seen so much of the world, specially in a vessel like the Empresa.