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PROBLEM REMAINS
Mr. Chamberlain To Consult Cabinet And France
TALK WITH HERR HITLER TO BE
RESUMED AT GODESBURG
M.
DALADIER TO BE PRESENT THIS
TIME
Geneva, September 16. IT IS BELIEVED here that Herr Hitler has made counter-proposals to Mr. Neville Chamberlain of i--such ̈importance that the British Prime Minister is returning to London not only to consult the Cabinet but also the French » Government.
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M. Daladier and M. Bonnet, it is believed. will leave the French capital for London tomorrow and it is likely that they will stay over the week-end. In the meantime a hopeful view of the situa- ilon is taken here."
FROM PARIS IT is stated that the French are refraining from drawing any definite conclusions from the swift ending of the Berchtesgaden talks. It is generally expected that there will be a personal exchange of views between Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier but this will, of necessity, de- pend on the former's time, table for the next few days.
Meanwhile a Berlin report states that Mr. Chamberlain will probably resume his talk with Herr Hitler at Godesburg on Tuesday and that M. Daladier will take part in this meeting-Reuter:
FUEÈRER EXPLAINS SITUATION
London, September 18.
The special correspondent of the Daily Mail. Ward Price, declares in a report from Berchtesgaden that he received from absolutely re liable. quarters, detalled Information regarding the conversation be- tween Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler.
The Fuehrer began the conversation_with_an exhaustive state- " ment on the Sudeten-German question which followed closely on the lines of his Nuremberg declaration. It is declared that the Fuehrer was able to inform Mr. Chamberlain of certain facts which were hitherto“Waknown to the latter.
The Fuehrer emphasised the imperative necessity 'of achieving a radical solution of the Sudeten-German problem at the earliest possible moment, and he then roughly outlined his ideas as to how a settlement could be effected.
Mr. Chamberlain, so Ward Price | CLEAR CUT DEMANDS
declares, returned to
London In
order to inform the Cabinet of the Fuchrer's views in order that the Cabinet might examine the sug: gestions.
London, Sept. 18.
News that after a comparatively short talk Mr. Chamberlain is fly. ing back to England today to con- sult the Cabinet will
cause
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serious perplexity, declares News Chronicle
Ward Price reports that it was definitely decided to hold a second meeting next week and adds that according to well-informed politi- cal quarters the Reich Government will address à Note to the Prague
It has clearly been impossible in Government warning the latter that Czech nationals in Germany so short a time for any real under- will be seized" as hostages it the standing to develop between two attacks on Sudeten-Germans con- nen on whom so much depends, and the early return suggests that Ward Price claims to have been Her Hitler has presented Mr. informed by personages close to Chamberlain with clear cut de- the Fuehrer that Herr Hitler ex-mands which are beyond anything Dressed his satisfaction with the1at has been envisaged by the outcome of the conversation and British Cabinet. We hope this in- hat he characterised Mr. Cham- terpretation is an unduly pessimis- berlain 19 1 straight forward tic one and that Mr. Chamberlain statesman with whom it was not will be able to report inore difficult to negotiate.--Transocean. į Izvourable news-Reuter.
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HERR HITLER, WHY PLEASE?
Hankow, Sept. 16.
Herr Hitler's defence at the people's right to self-deter- mination was vigorously de- nounced by the influential Ta Kung Pao" this morn- ing which sees the Reichs Fuehrer's action only a * pretext for the annexation, of a weaker nation.
The newspaper points put that there are 'many Germans why in America and asks Hitler does not press the right of determination for Germans in America. The journal fur- ther asks why Germany' re- cognises Manchukuo when Manchukuo is "Chinese ter- ritory and the population en- tirely Chinese."
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The "Ta Kung Pao" is not too optimistic about the, out- come of the interview between Mr. Chamberlain and Merr Hitler. Even if Britain and Germany should reach an agreement regarding a formu-, la to solve the Czech crisis, It asserts that such a formula. might be unacceptable to Prague which, with support frar France.
Russia and
might defy Germany.-Beuter.
Sir Robert, Lady Ho Tung Honoured
By Agricultural Association
Presentation Of Shield
Made At Tea Party
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING
Speaking at a tea party given by the New Territories Agricni- tura] Association in honour of Lady Ho Tung at "Idlewild." 8; Sey- mour Road, yesterday afternoon, the Rev. H. B. Wells, Chairman of the Association, remarked that Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung's Interest In the New Territories had been manifest for nearly 40 years. Since the first agricultural show, Sir Robert had helped the Association year by year in many ways.
A presentation of a shield, suitably Inscribed, was made to Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tụng from the Association to show its sincers gratitude.
Mr. Tang Wel-tong, a member of
the Committee, speaking in Chin.
́ese before a large and distinguish-
REV." H.R. WELLS Addressing the gathering, Rev
ed gathering, said that now that H. R. Wells gald
'the Association's building in the
We are very glad of the oppor· New Territories was completed and tunity of being present here today they were opening the institute for because we have greatly desired to students, they still look to Bir Ro-jexpress our gratitude to Lady Ho bert and Lady Ho Tung for advice Tung and, yourself, "
and assistance, so that the people Your interest in the New Terri-" of the New Territories may have, tories has been manifest for nearly instruction in farming, and that 40 years. You were the first "Chin- the future of agriculture in the ese realdent to buy land for culți New Territories may be bright. tion, and in 1900 you, Sir Robert,
acted as Chairman of the Economic Resource Comitattee, and in; con- | nection with that had already been able to show much of what you had done to advance new products In the Territories.
Your report was approved, and you received the official thanks of Sir Reginald Béübba.; You may Jointly be called the father and mother of agricultural progress in
the New Territories.
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MORE TANKS FOR NETHERLANDS
The Hague Sept. 16 Major Tiere, Commander of the Netherlands 'East Indies Motorised Corps at Bandoeng, Is leaving for England with rash orders for a large num ber of tanks.
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The decision to purchase afises out of the increasing speed with which the me- 'chanisation of Armies In /the- Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies is being carried out.—{Reuter).
NEXT MEETING WILL BE DECISIVE Berchtesgaden, Sept. 16. Mr. Chamberlain has left here for Munich.
It is believed the next meet- ing with Herr Hitler will take place at Keesburg, favourite. susamer resort of the Fuehrer, near Cologne, though it is now not expected sooner than early next week.
* While German circles are not optimistic about the situation. the general fèdling amang or servers of all nationalities in "thurt nezi week's meeting will be decisive, one iny or another.- Reuter.
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Japan? POSER BY SHANGHAI
NEWSPAPER
Shanghai Sept. 16.
The "Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury." an American diliy, in an editorial today, says that li there is such solicitude from Japan on behalf of the oppressed minority in far off Czechoslovakia, perhaps there is some chance that some- thing may be done in the territory under Japanese control where there is an oppressed majority.
SEVERE BATTLE RAGES NEAR TEHAN
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Japanese Launch Repeated Assaults On Defenders
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Hankow, September 16. Severe fighting is raging on the road between Singte and Teh. an as the Japanese make a determined drive towards Tehap, ac- cording to Chinese reports.
The intensity at the battle is indicated by the Chinese com munique saying that two thousand Chinese soldiers fell at Sikuling during the three days when the Japanese made sixteen assaults.
Chinese forces are holding their
"If Japan keenly sympathises position west of Yalkoų.
From
with the three million Sudeten- Shanghat a message states that by 2 MAIL PLANES
Germans and feels that they should alr-water-and-land-the-Japanese have the benent of a plebiscite, to launched an attack at dawn today express their feelings (as the re-on Wusueh, according to unofficial nult of which they may achieve dispatches.
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DUE TODAYTM Due to a delay on the main line selt-determination and be in- Blue Jackets claimed to have from Longon to Bangkok the Im-.. dependent of the yoke of another landed at a point a mile-and-a- 'perial Alzways' plane which was race) it may be logically assumed quarter downstream as a signal due here yesterday afternoon will that official Nipponese sentiment for the assault, naval guns opening not arrive until noon today, is veering in the direction of equal a barrage while field guns from The RMA "Delphinus," piloted sumpathy toward the idea of a Matouchen fired across the river as by Mr. S. Hoare, leaves Bangkok plebiscite for the benefit of 30,000, bombers rained missies on the this morning and is due at Kai Tak 000 oppressed Chinese in Manchu- Chinese forts,
about 5 p.m. today," kuo."
Near the western shore of Po- The leader adds sarcastically yang Lake the Japanese declared that that need not end the matter they were closing in argund of Koreana In Korea and 'Formo-Yalkou.-Reuter. sans in Formosa, and that a con-
Bound For England siderable number of Chinese In
China might like to make clear CHINESE LEAVE
Twenty students, graduates of that they do not care for domina- various Universities throughout tion by others Reuter. China, will leave Hong Kong today un board-the-2 and O. Chitral,
as the sixth batch of Fellowship | Students to be sent to England to further their studies under British Buxer Indemnity Fund-
The party, which was chosen from 350 selected from examina- tions held in Hing Kong, Shang- and hai. Chungking, Kunming Wuchang, will be in charge of Mr.¦ Yeh Kung-cho.' Their courses vary animal from "applied opties and husbandry to hydrobiology and equcation. Their term of post- graduate study is for three years, but it may be extended to four, with the approval of the Board of Trustees administering Funds of the Boxer Indemnity (British. Re- fun).
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The Chairman of this Board is Bir Robert Calder-Marshall. the Vice-President Dr. Chu Chia-hua. The Vice-Chancellor of the. Uni- versity of Hong Kong. Mr. D. J. Sloss, and Mr. R. V. Wilkinson, of the P. and O.. are also members. Others are Mr. T. L. Sogng. Dr. Yen and Dr. Liu.
A tea-party was given to the departing students by the members of the Board who are in Hong Kong in the Jacobean Room ct the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday afternoon, while at night they were guests at a dinner given by the Hong Kong University Union in the Assembly Room of the University.
Neville of hamberlain
London, Sept. 16. An epigram entitled "Nevlile Chamberlain," on the main page of today's "Times," by the Poet Laureate, Joseph Masefield, with reference to the Prime Minister's visit to Herr Hitler, attracted wide at- traction for its appositeness and simple beauty. It ran:-
Priam to Achilles for his Son,
So you, into the night,
divinely led,
To ask that, young men's, bodies, not yet dead, Be given from the battle
not yet begun.
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T.T. ON NEW YORK: 28-3/4. TT. ON LONDON: 13. 2.7/8d' London Silver Market · (Our Own Correspondents, London, Sept. 16. London silver prices today were down 1/8 as follows:-
Sept. 15 Sept. 16 Spot......... .15-9/16 19-7/16- Forward.....19-3/8 19-1/4
TANTSI
Costly Victory For Invaders
Hwaiting. Sept. 16.
SPECIAL MAIL A special air mail additional to normal services to London and Sydney by Imperial Airways will be leaving Hong Kong on Sunday. Ordinary mall will close at noon on. Sunday and registered mail at 5 pm on Saturday."
The mall is due in London on September 28 and in Sydney on September 24.
STOP PRESS
After a gallant stand during which all their defence works were levelled to the ground, Chiese de fenders of Tantsi. a small town
Berlin, Sept. 16. . thirty kilometres east of Bruchow German offelal quarters say the and south of the Lunghai railway situation is slightly easter, follow abandoned the place after five ing the Chamberlain-Hitler talks. hours' grim struggle un September A slight optimism is noticeable, this being attributed to the con- Immediately after the abandon-viction that the democracies will ment of Tantst. the Chinese forces substantially agree with Hitler's took up a new line to. the south demands,
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of the town, where the Japanese A Foreign Office spokesman in- have been effectively checked.
were
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The Japanese suffered heavy casualties in taking Tantsi when the Chinese stubbornly resisted until their positionis longer tenable. Throughout the five hours' fighting, the Japanese rèsorted to the use of heavy guns in shattering, the Chinese, de- fences.
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terviewed by Reuter said the "Fuehrer very likely made it clear to Mr. Chamberlain that only the will of the people concerned can now decide the Sudeten issue. It is considered "mthinkable" at the Foreign Office that Mr. Chamber-.. lain is not persuaded by the justice. of Hitler's demands.-Reuter!
Prague, Sept. 18.
The Japanese opened their as sault on Tantsi on the night of September 11. from Palitzi and Tahsukia and did not succeed in All inhabitants of the Budeten capturing the town until early the German areas" have been ordered. following morning.
to surrender their arms to the au- Despite the fall of Tantal, little thorities within twenty-four hours! changes are noted in the positions Heary penalties an provided for of the opposing forces south of non-compliance with the regula- Hsuchow.-Central News.
tion-Reuter.
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GENERAL WU
TE-CHEN ENTERTAINS
HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WU TE-CHEN, GOVERNOR OF EWANOTUNG PROVINCE, entertained members of the Can- fon Committee for Justice to an informal tea party at the Canton Municipal Reception House on September 12 the centre of the picture. (See Pare (7)
Governor Wu is in