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BAI
NO CHANGE REPORTED
IN BORDER SITUATION
District In Northern, Korea Shelled
Tokyo, August 4
There is no change in the situation according to information reaching Tokyo this morning, which states that Soviet troops con- sisting of a frontier sharpshooter division and a mechanised brigade. is moving southwards from Navoklerak,
According to a War Office communique Issued at 1.35 p.m. today the border situation is apparently becoming qulet and no Soviet planes appeared over the border region up to 11.30 this morning.
Kojo. a district in northern Korea. about 30 kilometres from the mouth of the Tumen River, was shelled by Soviet howitzers at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday.
Prince Konoye ((Prèmier), Gen. counsellors was held this moming Ugak! (Foreign Minister), and Mr. when there was an exchange of S. Ikeda (Finance Minister) con-views regarding the border in- ferred this afternoon regarding the cidents. Prince Konoye, General "border situation
"Prince Konoye reported to the Throne his interview with Minis- ters, of the fighting services on Wednesday while General Ugaki explained the development in the diplomatic negotiations.
Prior to the three-Minister con- ference, a meeting of Cabinet
POLAND AND RECOGNITION
OF MANCHUKUO
Ugaki and Mr. Ikeda were also present-(Reuter).
CHANGKUFENG RETAKEN
- Moscow, Aug. £. Changkufeng was recaptured by Soviet troops early yester- day, according to an omelal communique.
The headquarters of the Japanese Kwantang Army im- mediately dispatched a large force of crack Japanese troops to the Soviet-Manchukuo bar- der in preparation for a major clash-International).
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WAR. MINISTER
General S..Itaraki the Japanese War Minister.
Torrential Rains. In Berlin
Berlin, August 4. After days of most oppressive weather, torrential rains fell here yesterday afternoon; ac- companied by lightning, which Brought the trams in several parts of the city to a standstill causing trame dislocations last- .. Ing several hours.
In the suburb of Schoeneberg lightning demolished a garage wall. In some parts the water could not escape quickly enough and rose over motor ear axles. Many cellars Chinese omcial circles remain were fooded and numerous trees
OFFICIAL RETICENCE
Hankow, Aug. 4.
CHINA PERTURBED rettent on the Soviet-Manchukua uprooted.-(Transocean).
Hankow, August 4.
Dr. Chu Chia-hua, Chinese Vice-Chairman of the World League of Nations Union. has sent a telegram to the Polish branch of the organization at Warsaw pointing out the un- desirable consequences which would inevitably arise if Poland recognized the puppet regime of Manchukuo.
Dr. Chu was greatly pertubed by press reports that the Polish Gov-
ernment is contemplating the ex- tension of recognition to the Man- churian · bogus government. Hls telegram, addressed to the Chair- man of the Polish League of Na- tions Union, asked that efforts be made in dissuading the Warsaw Government from carrying out their alleged decision.
"For the sake of maintaining the amlable relations between the
border incident. although the development of the incident is be- ing closely watched.
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However. semi-oficial circles belleve that if the present Soviet- Japanese conflct develops into a major war it would be "a drastic blow to the Japanese plan of mill tary aggression in China.
They pointed out that China should not relax her determination to resiat" but redouble her efforts to struggle for the final victory.— (International).
(Continued on Back Page)
LETTERS FOR
THE KING BY AIR MAIL
Sydney, August 4. Letters for the King from Lord Huntingfield, acting Governor of Chinese and Polish peoples." Dr Australia, and the Prime Minister, Chu said," we urge that the Polish Mr. J. A. Lyons, were handed to Government be strongly advised the pilot of the Imperial Airways | not to take such a step."-(Centralnying boat Camilla which in-
News),
GUIDE TO THE NEWS
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of
2. —Learning Fage
the aviation. Tree cutters severely Ceal with. Conversion case re- manded.
Page 3-Women's interests. Cob
fide' in 'Faith Prior.
Page 4-The Services. Air Minister and world unrest. Combatting epidemics in Far East.
Page 5.-Results of British Film Ballot. Cinema notes and news. Diary of local events. Crossword puzzle.
Page 6.-Japanese facing flood on drive to Hankow, Foreign sym- pathy and assistance for China: Workers fight foods. General Chang Chun. Assurances given. Page 1-School Certificate EX- amination results. Two Chinese concerts. Felicitations to Queen. Chinese Artists' Federation. Local health.
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B-Leading.. article: Fair trade for Britain. Women saved from two dangers. Opium found
in baskets of fruit.
Page 9-Australian scientists to
probe desert mystery. Page 18-Lawp bowls teams.
Hammond and Bradman.
US. Baseball results. Baseball play ed by sound. Selling false Test match tickets. Indian nockey ..tourists....
Page 12.-Financial page. Austrian
Industries pass to the State. Pare 13-Radio programmes, Pages: 14 and 15,-Shipping newa
and directory..
augurated the bi-weekly service between Australia and England. (Reuter Bulletin).
"I WANT TO GO WITH MUMMY"
"I want to go with mummy," cried. Princesa Alexandra · ́as she watched her parents, the, Duke and Duchess of Kent, leave their London home for Bumania to attend the funeral of Queen, Marie. Her brother, Prince Edward, doesn't seem quite sure whether to cry or not.
NEW JAPANESE PLANE CARRIER'
IN SOUTH According to a Canton mill- tary source, the Japanese air- craft carrier which arrived in Kwangiang waters a few days ago is now anchored near the Manskan Islands.
The carrier is of a small type and carries about 16 to 17 seaplanes. Two destroyers are protecting it. It is be- lieved to be one of two air- craft carriers which were built not 'long ago...
Tripartite Trade Talks Suspended
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FIVE-POINT PEACE United Front
PLAN REPORT.
In response to popular de- mand, the report relating to Japan's Five-Point Peace Plati, äs published exclusively in the Dally Press yesterday, is being. reproduced in the Hong Kong- Weekly Press of today's date, now on sale at 30 cents a CODY.
Another Junk Outrage
In Japan Against War
Hankow; August 4.
CREW KIDNAPPED ruteng clashes to renew
Fooehow, August. 42
activities against the
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CHINESE SPOKESMAN
Mobilisation Of Wuhan Is Explained
PLAN IS NON-MILITARY
Hankow, August 4.
A spokesman of the Wuhan, Garrison Headquarters scathingis rebuked the Japanese army's recent déclaration that as the populace of Wuhan has now been mobilised and automatically become com batants, the Japanese air force may henceforth indulge in Indiscrim- inate bombing of the place.
As a matter of universal knowledge, the spokesman pointed out. the Japanese air force, since the beginning of the present war, has never made the slightest pretention to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.
A Tokyo report states that Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, the Japanese Minister of In- terior, has ordered the police,... gendarmes and secret service agents throughout Japan to keep a watch on the radicals and intelligentsia, who are forming a united, front against war. :. Japanese and Korean revolu- tionaries are utilizing the Chang." their military clique, headed by the War Minis- ter. General Seishiro Itagaki, Ad- miral Suetsugu, General Mazari and others. The Minister for In-
It was sheer ckery, therefore, terior has submitted a report of the that the Japanese authorities freactionaries" to the Premier, should further look for an excuse Prince Konoge.
for more horrible massacres from The number of Japanese naval
Dispatch of Kwantung troops the air. ships off the Fuklen coast
Yangtze to participate in the bas decreased considerably in the last campaign is held up pending few days. At Amoy and Kimol, settlement of the border incidents. only three cruisers, three gun-The original plan was to send five boats and about ten smaller craft divisions from Manchuria to the with a score of steam launches Yangtse Valley.--(International), are seen about.—(Central News).
Two Chinese Junks were stopped and pillaged and the, crew kidnapped by a Japanese naval vessel off the mouth of the Min River on August 2 After ransacking the boats, they set them on fire,
Shortage of Kwangtung Currency
NOTE CIRCULATION INCREASED
Canton, August 4. Owing to the shortage of
das Kwangtung currency
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the recent extenuated ten- dency to hoard Canton money, the Kwangtung Provincial Bank has been authorbed by the Minister for Finance to in- crease the note circulation by $5,0000,000.
Mr. Y. C. Koo, President of the" Kwangtung Provincial Bank. pointed out that the value of Kwangtung currency against the National dollar has been enhanced- as a result of the shortagé « and the additional currency is being issued in order to adjust the value of the Canton dollar to the official rate of 144 set by the National Government.
EXAMINATION RESULTS
The results of the Hong Kong Government School Cep- dificate Examination appear on Page 1.
Chinese Are Closing In
On
Chinese
"Unfortified cities were freely attacked from the air, and defence- less people, including women and children and even foreigners, were Indiscriminately bombed and strafed. .
The spokesman emphasised that the mobilisation of the. civilian populace of Wuhan is entirely non-military, with its activities" confined to sch phases as the scattering of re- fugees the maintenance of public safety, and the relief of war wounded.
Such people, the spokesman de- Iclared, cannot be regarded as com- |batants "any more than doctors. first aid corps and relief workers can be, who were nevertheless inade victims of numerous Japan- ese air attacks before.
Hankow Will Be Stoutly Defended
Hankow, Aurust 4. There is every indication that the Chinese are deter mined to put up the strongest resistance in the event of the Japanese attack on Nanchang, Judging, by, the general spirit / of the Chinese defenders and the nature of the terrain the attackers must penetrate" and the preparatioris made to de- fend the area.
The fact is, the spokesman add-' This impression was gained by ed; that Japan's wanton. Hiling Renter's correspondent who spent and destruction of civilian lives four days visiting the Chinese lines and properties has been so long in the vital Tehan and Mahuiling outlawed by international opinion sectors on the Klukiang-Nanchang that no amount of excuse or ex-Railway-(Reuter). planation would justify their fur- ther wanton activities.(Central
| News).
Shanghai CHINESE PRESS
Shanghai, August 4.
troops in plain clothes under the command of General Yeh Ting are closing In on Shanghai, having reach- ed the outskirts of "Tazang. scene of extensive fighting last autumn.
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TOWARDS KIAOHSIEN
Chengchow, August 4. Chinese forces in east Shantung are pressing towards Kilaohsien. southeast of Kaomi on the Klaotsi Hallway. Fighting has already broken out in. the southern out- Japanese are fortifying Shao-skirts of the town with the Chinese nanziang to cope with the Chinese steadily advancing. irregulars, and all Chinese work-
Meanwhile, it is learned that men engaged by 'the Japanese Chinese mobile banda staged a military are dismissed or detained night attack on Chefod on Aug. 2, Communications between Lotten indieting severe losses on the Ja- and Woosung are interrupted. panese. They seized more than 80
Ari official statement declares: "The reserves against these notes the will, as usual, be held in
It is reported that Chinese ifles, two machine-guns and 12 custody of the Canton branch of the National Currency Reserve guerillas broke into Hatakwan and armoured cars (Central News).: Board but there is no indication Talping Gate in Nanking, where to give as to what reserves are to heavy fighting was raged Just be held against the new note issue." "
"Shanghal, August 4 Negotiations in Berlin since early this year for a tripartite trade agreement between fa- pan, Germany and the puppet Manchukuo have been SILK- pended as 2 result of the Soviet border clashes.. Some minor" points had been reach during the protracted A spokesman declined to revent Legotiations but the main lines the total note circulation of the
remain uncertain. No probable Kwangtung Provincial Bank date for signature was specifled | (Reuter). even before the
affair "
Changkuteng
"The original plan was to con-
[night.-International).
LUNGWANGMIAO TAKEN
RAIL TROLLEY
DAMAGED
‚« · Jerusalem, August 4.
Republicans Continue
To Advance
Barcelona, August 4.
À communique issued by the Republican War Ministry last night stated that all the at- tacks on the Ebro front were.
On repulsed.
the Levant front, the Republican troops
continued their advance, be=". gun on Tuesday, capturing Al- il tomorro' Callada and other
enemy positions.
On the Madrid front, a Nation- alist surprise attack in the Pere- grinos sector was frustrated. Nationalist planes dropped bombs on & red-cross train on the Catalonian coast on Tuesday and also bombarded Tarragona.- (Transocean); ·
NATIONALIST CLAIM.
Salamanca, August 4.
A Nationalist headquarters' bul- Tetin issued last night reports that
the Republican troops continued
A Chinese guerilla unit of about 1000 men háa captured Lungwang- miao, a few miles from Pootung and Japanese aircraft have been troops, who went to investigate the On the Teruel front the Na- sent to reconnoftre over the area incident, were fired on. by bandits. tionalist cavalry repelled an at- yesterday, according to a dis-
Two Arabs were wounded 'and, al täck in the Gualadaviar sector British soldier injured.-(Reuter where the Republican losses were Bulletin).
j alsö1 considerable-(Transocean).
A railway trolley has damaged by to launch violent attacks on the
a land-mine near Tukare today. Ebro Trout throughout the day Arab supernumeries and British but were repulsed
dude two pacts, one between HEAVY FIGHTING patch to the Sing Tao Jih Fao.
Germany and "Manchukuo." The general principle of both agree-. ments is to maintain the present ratio of exports between the signatories as a basis, but at the same time to provide for a large
| additional exchange of goods on
a reciprocal ar barter hasis (International),
·THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-1/4′′ T.T. ON LONDON: Is 2.7/80.
London Silver Market
[Our Own Correspondent) London, August. 4. London silver prices today were up 1/16 as follows:
Aug. 3. Aug. 4. Spot.. ..19-7/16 19-1/2- Forward......19-5/16 · 19-3/8/
SOUTH
STASHEH
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Siaoshan, August 4 Very heavy fighting is raging south of Blashoh near the east Che-
at Pinguinmido
klang coast.
Early yesterday morning, Chinese
NEW CAMP FÖR WAR WAIFS
To accommodate the in- creasing number of child re- fugees the local branch of the War-time Child. Welfare" As- sociation · plan's to build ■ large camp at Talpo, accord-
troops charged the Japanese post-ing to Central News. tions in the vicinity of Pingliumiao and inflicted heavy caanaitles on the enemy forces. A Chinese bat talion commander was killed in action in the engagement;
The site of the new. camp has already been selected, and as soon as approval, from the Hong Kong Government is obtained construc- tion work will be started. A column of Japanese troops, advancing from Haining towards The camp is expected to Halyen, is held in check by Chin-commodate at least 1,000 child ese troops a Fengkatidao where
refugees. bitter fighting continues to rage- At present, the Association (Central News).
maintains a camp at Un Long.
AC-
Japanese Forcibly Enter Hospital And Remove Wounded Chinese Soldiers
*** Shanghai, August 4.
Mounting machine-guns on all four corners of the British Church Missionary Society hospital in Hängchow, Japanese-forcibly entered the hospital and removed 103 Chinese soldiers who were wounded dúr. Ing the Hangchow hostilities and whom the Japanese had given in a written agreement to allow the hospital to intern for the duration of the war..
The Incident occurred on July 30 and, news has only just been received in Shanghal
Tạ The wounded Chinese soldiers were removed in walling trucks, commanded by 'armed guards, and driven, away since when no news of the incident had been reported to the Belfish ant (Router);
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