HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
JAPANESE FORCES MASSED
FORCES MASSED ON SHANSI-
REFUGEES AT SHATAUKOK
HOPEH BORDER
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Fresh Operations In Vicinity Of Great Wall
Hing, October 24. LARGE UNITS OF JAPANESE TROOPS are being massed over an extensive area in the hilly regions on the north Hopef-Shansi border preparatory to fresh operations at a number of paints out. aide and Inside the Great Wall where Chinese guerillas have been gathering in force.
REFUGEES from Chinese territroy seen at Shatsukok. (Photo in north Shansi. 50 kilometres from the Chahar border, was the The east of Hungyuan. Important town outside the Great Wall, by Lelea).
SITUATION IN
NEAR EAST
BLUECHER IN CHINA?
-(Continued from Page 1) Marshal Bluecher was formerly
scene of a terrific. battle for three days, according to a belated report received here to-day During the battle the Japanese suffered more than 200 casualties.
Places along Tajenchwang and
Tsingshulho, east of Hungyuan, HINT CLEARLY
continue to be points of bitter con- Lention between the opposing forces. On October 15, 800 Japan-
Political Development known as General Galens, and ese swooped down to surround the
In Syria
'Cairo, Oct. 24.
Interest in the future political development in Syria has been) revived here in conséquence of a short stay in Cairo of the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Sevyed Tawik Swatdi. on his return to Bagdad from London and Paris where he had important conversations with leading polical personalities the situation in the Near East.
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was military adviser in Canton to Chinese north-east of Hungyuan Dr. Sun Yat-sen from 1025 to but were repulsed after a sanguin- 1927-International News.
ary battle.
PERSISTENT REPORTS The latest reports suggest that Marshal Bluecher. Com- mander-in-Chief of the Soviet Far Eastern forces. whose disappearance from public view has given rise to per- sistent reports in Moscow and elsewhere that he has been disgraced, imprisoned, or shot, may be busy in. Outer Mongo- Ila or China. These reports, however, lack suffelent con- frmation, says "The Times*** Riga correspondent.
Tatung, Sohsten and other places in north Shans have seen increas-
GIVEN
China May Leave The League
A clear hint that China is like-
ing Japanese activities in the lastly to quit the League of Nations week-end. Large numbers of beasts in case that body again falls to of burden were commandeered apply sanctions against Japan was from the people there.
reportedly dropped by Dr. V. K Wellington Koo, Chinese repre- Large numbers of wounded Bentative on the Council, An a Japanese soldiers were sent back to private talk with Britain's delegate. Talyuan. Central News.
JAPANESE
The Foreign Minister declared to Transocean's representative that questions in dispute between France and Syria, notably the question of autenomy of the pro-
The Press in the Baltic States vince of Diezireh, would be solved has recorded further details of in such a manner as to give satis-, military assistance which Russia faction to the Syrian demania. is alleged to be giving to China. The Minister further affirmed. This applies to armoured cars, promised to obtain ratification of alleged to be streaming to China.
that the French Government had
Larks, and
lorries.
which are
BOMBER
to Geneva. Foreign Under-Secre tury, Richard A. Butler.
Stressing China's growing dis- illusionment at League delays, Dr. Koo is authoritatively understood to have insisted that the Council, at its present session, apply Article 17 of the Covenant and then pass on to the enforcement of sanc-
DISABLED tons upon Japan's certain refusal
to accept a League summons. Chungking. Oct. 24.
Should the Powers again seek to the Franco Syrian Treaty at the via Odessa by sea
One Japanese "bomber is report- evade their responsibilities, be re- continuously by two main routes
and
ed to have been brought down in portedly warned the British de- via beginning of the next session of Siberia China, It is said, has a raid on October 22 at Llang-legate. China's -long-standing the French Parliament--Trans-
undertaken to pay in gold.
shan, north-east of Chungking, patience would be exhausted" and Seven hundred Chinese officers Chinese pursuit planes engaged she would no longer see any rea- who attended the Soviet manoeu- the raiders. It is reported, the son to remain a member of an intensive bomber being disabled by a shot organisation whose ineffectiveness are receiving theoretical training before return-through the petrol tank. The as a guarantee of peace and fur- Chinese sustained no. losses tice was clearly established." Reuter:
(Journal de Geneve)
occan
vres
CAVALRY STILL ing. Also, 112 Chinese airmen are
USEFUL
The fact that the Sents Greys. are going to Palestine is highly
at present completing their train- ing at Voronezh and, 350 else- where.
significant. One of the only two JAPANESE NAVAL
cavalry regiments now left to the British Army, the Scots Greys es- caped mechanisation not long ago anly through the popular indigna- tion the proposal aroused North of the Tweed.
It was then said by serbe mill- tary experts that the decision not to mechanise them would put the Scots Greys out of serious con- sideration as a military unit, and condemn them to purely cere- monial use.
Apparently. however, the utility of mounted troops is now realised in Palestine, where conditions are not unlike those prevailing South Africa during the Boar War.
in
So once more the modernists in the military cosmos are confound- ed, and the cavalry upholders. Justified in their faith (Notting- ham Guardian)
BIG AIR FORCE CONTINGENT
FOR OVERSEAS
London, Oct. 24.
LAUNCH HIT BY CHINESE PLANE
Shanghat Oct. 24.
#
the
A Chinese monoplane at- tacked
naval Japanese launch in the upper reaches of the Yangtze on Sunday, a Japanese naval spokesman announced to-day at p.ess confererice..
Several Japanese were killed and others were wounded he stated. The Chinese mono- plane was white in colour and had red circles painted on the wings, the spokesman said.-- Reuter.
SCHOOLBOYS VISIT ONTARIO CAMP
"Lambeth Walk" Tour
Laden with cowLoy shirts, ties, belts and hats. the 28 English The biggest contingent of off- cers and men of the Roval Air public schoolboys who have been Force ever to be sent oversen in visiting Canada returned to Lon-
don recently..
a
crowded
Foreign Interests Will
Be Accorded Due Respect
Hankow, Oct. 24.
Referring to the rumours of the possible blowing up of buildings in Bankow, some adjacent to Brilish property, General Kuo Chan, Defence Commissioner, pointed out to-day that this step has not yet been decided upon,
A promise had already been given to the foreign Consulate-au- thorities that they would be given twelve hours notice of any such
measures.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.-PAGE 9
ALLSOPP'S DARK MUNICH
BEER
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Sole Agents:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
THE PRICE OF PEACE
RUSSIA AND CZECHS
has
What Herr Hitler gained by the threat of force has made the force at his dis- posal much greater still.
The fear of being opposed by Britain, France, Czechoslovakia and Russia is dispelled. Poland
is swinging visibly into the Ger- man orbit.
without
her mountain
Czechoslovakia, fortifications and her frontier, is powerless.
Russia, left out of every vital consultation by Britain and France, is likely to retain small
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HOTELS
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interest-in-their-futures-fortunes- TWO LOVEBIRDS
And the German army will be
swelled by the conscripts whom WITHOUT HOME
three, million new.. citizens will yield.
of Na-
poleon has any Power held such May Have To Spend
Life At Sea
known' of
German
Never since the days
predominance in Europe. And enough 鹑
that our share of European mar-ed Plymouth recently are finding trade policy to make it certain Two blue lovebirds which reach- kets from the Rhine to Constan- the world a tinople wil steadily, rapidly,
perhaps just now. diminish. Spectator).
It
General Kuo Chan stated, "I am One building mined to-dar responsible for this area and the within ten yards of the British “H.K. DAILY PRESS"
interests of foreigners will be res- pected. Anyone endangering the lives of foreigners will be shot."
Martial law is being enforced in Wuhan city as from to-day while the river above Hankow will be closed to navigation as from to. MOFTOT.
The British gunboals HMS. Peteral and H.MS. Tern are both safely on this side of the boom lafter recent trips up-river-Reu- Iter..
WARNING ISSUED
Hankow, Oct. 24. "There is a possibility that a large number of buildings Will be demolished in Han- kow in the
near future," states a warning by 'the For- eign. Residents' Association issued in the local press which advises foreigners to take rea- sonable precautions,
Consulate-General
The Chinese authorities, how- even have promised to give for-
hours' lapis 24 evacuate before they fire fuzes.-Reuter.
Warning
to
the
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REFUGEE ZONE SETTLED
Hankow, Oct. 24.- Father Jacquinot stated to- day that matter of a refugee zone at Hankow has definitely "been settled. The area em
braces Administrative Dis- tricts 1, 2 and 3 and also the Chinese area as far as the railway line.
The former has been fully agreed upon, but the latter area will of course, be subject to the approval of the Japanese.
The Foreign Residents' Associa- tion has published an announce→ ment requesting all foreigners In ers will be involved as ample warn-the
It is most unlikely that, foreign-outlying districte to move into
'Administrative districts
une ship as part of the ordinary
In the course of trooping programme is embarking in the transport Nevasa which month's tour the boys have visited will leave Southampton to-morrow.paper mills, lumber camps, and fox The Air Force personnel travell- the Mayor of Quebec, visited the farms. They were entertained by Ing in the Nevasa will number Toronto Exhibition, and taught ng has been given to those living approximately 1,000, many
Canadians how to do the alongside dangerous buildings. companied by their families thus making a full complement for the
"Lambeth Walk,"
The streets of Hankow troopship.
"We did the 'Lambeth Walk' and crowded with refugees carrying also the Palais Glide on every bundles and belongings and it is Normally transports are shared possible occasion," said Dick Wood-feared that untoward incidents with the Army and Navy and it wark, of Westminster School. "It may occur.
E
ac-the
Aden. Khartoum and
Malta.--British. Wireless.
art
Reuter.
CHARGES DENIED BY CARDINAL INNITZER
is very unusual fof the full capa-was one of the best ways of mak- city to be used by the Royal Airing friends we discovered.",
The police in Special Adminis~ Force. The contingent will be
trative District No. 1 and 2 are al- dispersed among units In Iraq in the Queen Mary going out, in these districts have been removed The boys performed the dance ready depleted. The drains in India,
Vienna, Oct. 24. small river steamers in Canada, in and shipped away in order to leave charges that he participated in an Cardinal Innitzer to-day denied Toronto, and in dance halls in no imn for the Japanese. Civilian anti-Nazi campaign. He said that every part of Canada they visited. volunteers are imobilising to-night he publicly thanked Herr Hitler "We were six days in Kagawong or to-morrow to bolster up the when Germany annexed Budeten THAMES SHIPPING Camp, Ontario, run by Canadian morale of the Chinese police land and also commanded the IMPEDED BY FOG
boys," said Woodwark. "Here we French volunteers are also mobilis ringing of church bells-Reuter. were taught how to cance by ang and are being provided with Red Indian Instructor, and how gas masks.—-Reuter, :
London, Oct. 24.
The Thames shipping was seriously impeded this morning by
to ride in the cowboy fashion by Powder Rivers a former Rodeo
a local fog and considerable delay | champton.” was caused on the roads", and railways in suburban London,
Mr. H. E. Ruby, careers master at ! "Dulwich' College, and Major J. M.. The fog. which cleared later, West were in charge of the party, was patchy, and while visbility which, was arranged by the British In some parts was less than 50 Empire Union. Major West is re- yards, elsewhere there was bril-maining in Canada to arrange for Hant sunshine-British Wireless
next year's tour.
· JAPANESE BUILDINGS
DYNAMITED
Hankow, Oct. 24, Dynamite fuses are at pre- sent being placed in all Jap- anese buildings in Hankow, which are mostly alongside property belonging to other foreigners.
PHOTOGRAPHS
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MILITARY PLANE CRASH
་
STATE CONTROL
OF BUILDING SOCIETIES
Chief Registrar's Review
bewildering place Mr. John Fox, Chier Registrar of. Friendly Societies, reviewed the They are probably sick of the effects of Government control of sight of the sea, too, because building societies in Great Britain they have already crossed the at the International Congress of Atlantic three times in search of Building Societies at Zurich.
il Control dated, he said, for all
abome.
If the French anthorities are practical purposes from the pass- not more lenient than the British ing of the Building Societies Act, and American Customs they will 1874 The majority of societies become wanderers and apend existing at that date obtained in- the rest of their lives at sea. corporation under that Act. Some They arrived at Plymouth in societies chose to remain unincor- the French liner Ile de France, porated, but the reasons for"allow- They were first brought toing this had long since disappear- England by Greta Nissen, the ed. film star, but because they are Under an amending Act of 1894. budgerigars and so, technically, the Registrar was empowered to members of the parrot
the species, prescribe
form of annual they were not allowed to enter statement, so that uniformity was the country under the regulations assured and ambiguity removed. Bucharest, Oct. 24.
for the prevention of psittico Unincorporated building societies Four occupants, three officers sis or parrot disease.
were compelled for the first time.. sergeant, were killed
They were sent back to New to send in annual statements to wher a Rumanian, military plane York, but in their absence simi- the Registrar. crashed near Jurflofca, in Dobruja. lar regulations had been enfare-
Section 5 of this Act gave the yesterday evening-Transocean.
ed in the United States and they Registrar power to appoint an in- were not permitted ashore there. spector to examine into and re- Recently, when they came back port on the affairs of a society. In to England again, they were once a number of cases criminal more refused entry. Now they are ceedings had followed. po A number of lives were lost being taken to Havre in the hope yesterday during a heavy gale in that they may find a home in the Black Sex endangering coastal France. shipping.
ard
one
BLACK SEA GALE
Bucharest, Oct. 24.
ON EFFEMINATES
A boat which broke adrift from P. I. ARMY FROWNS a tug during the rescue operations off Constantza is missing and the: crew of twelve is believed lost- Transocean.
DR. E. BENES
REPORT" FOR PARLIAMENT The last, though not the least important, means of control intro-
Chief Registrar of Friendly Socie- duced by the Act of 1894 arose out of the duty. Imposed upon the
ties of making an abstract and reg Philippine Army headquarters statements of societies, and of the Iport of the annual accounts and has issued a circular announcing proceedings of the Registrars un- that persons with effeminate tender the Building Societies Acts, dencies physically, mentally rand of laying them before Partia- spiritually, will not be considered ment.
Army physicians
Dr. E Benes, former President for the army.
Knowledge that such a report
of Czechoslovakia, who is now in will not examine them, it was at was made available for public con- quietly with friends. England spent the week-end nounced.
According
CENTENARY" PLANS
to present plans he does not
sumption deterred undesirable Intend making public appearances
persons from entering the realms' before he leaves for the United
of building society finance. States to become visiting professor is busy making plans for its cenament, particularly that contain- Britain's youngest colony, Aden, that the control imposed by Far- It was an unquestionable fact at Chicago University, says British tenary celebrations on Jan. 19ed in the Act of 1894, had contri- A committee, under the patron-buted largely to the sound posttlon The International Chamber of age of the Governor, Sir Bernard to-day, not by imposing annoying.
in which building societies were Reilly, plans to establish a materrestrictions on legitimate business... nity and child welfare clinic had but by making dificult for w!
Wireless.
I learned that the Japanese Commerce have deserted Namoa Island on
met in Piria
an
next year
shady business
the ground that it is a barren place October: 18 and 19, delegates from a permanent organisation for poor desirable, persons to i--carry. and no longer of use to the Jap-tourteen countries including der relief, as the most suitable and anese. The Namoa magistracy has any, France, Great Britain, Italy, lasting form of memorial for the sext men to investigate the au- USA, Belgium, the Netherlands. centenary. thenticity of the report so that, if Poland, Sweden and Switzerlan
Aden, which was captured by
it is true, relief work might be taking part in the discussion an expedition from Bombay in Gove started in the Island.
according to a Tensocean.
1839 was transferred from the Colonial
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