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ESTABLISHED 1857
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938. SEA
THE SHUM CHUN CASINO
日菜初月拾年寅戊
ALL MINES IN VALENCIENNES
REGION REQUISITIONED BY
LABOUR MINISTRY
Engineering Factories Cleared Of Workers
MILITARY TRIBUNAL
ESTABLISHED
Paris. November 27...
ALL MINES IN THE VALENCIENNES REGION have been requisitioned by the Minister of Labour who has been given power to do so in an official decree published yesterday morning.
Fifteen thousand miners have returned to work. All miners of the Danzin Company, near Denain, received-orders yesterday morn- Ing to return to work falling which they would have to appear before All obeyed as have the military tribunal on a charge of rebellion.
all the others of other companies hitherto similarly warned.
As a result, the total number on strike in the region has drop- ped to about 10,000 and these have agreed to return to work ou Monday, provided no disciplinary action is taken.
At the same time" the strike movement has spread among metal "workers in the north of France but thanks to the same measure to dispatch guardes mobiles, all en- gineering factories occupied, total- ling 70, have now been evacuated.
Four demonstrators out of thou- sands who occupied the Renault Works were sentenced to ten days' imprisonment and fined 25 franes Alto- on a charge of rebellion.
gether 282 demonstrators were ar- rested, but, only four chose sum mary trial..
The railway serving the Danzin mines which were requisitioned last night is working normally yes- terday morning with passengers and goods trains.
“MOBILISATION” CARD
'All of the 2,000 men employed by
PEACE RUMOURS DENIED
Chungdus. Now, 2 Rumours of prace overtures were vigorously denied by a Chinese Government spokes- man, to-day. The Chinese will
peace never accept
ander humiliation, he said, and Chi- nese redistance is, as high as ofer-Reuter,
DISNEY HOME
TRAGEDY
the railway. cxcept four, returned Cartoonist's Mother
to work after receiving a "mobili- sation" card. All engineering fac-
tories in the Valenciennes region
have now been evacuated.
Many foreignera are employed in the mines, especially Poles, and as
Gassed
Hollywood, Nov. 27. Mrs. Flora Disney, mother of the famous
sercen cartoonist, Walt
the authorities have, not the right Disney, was killed and his father te mobilise them they were made Mr. Ellas Disney was critically subject to Immediate expulsion overcome by escapag gaz tumes at orders. If they refuse to work. their north Hollywood home to-
Military guards at all the pow-day. der magazines and arms depots
have been doubled.
The cler Mr. Disney is in hos- recover. The situation in the Paris regiontal and will probably
The cause of the gas escape is un- known leuter.
remains stationary.
V
at
Damage, estimated
many thousands of pounds, was caused
(Continued on Page 93
3,885, X-RAY
INSTALLATIONS
IN THE SOVIET
now
Moscow, Nov. 28.
Medical institutions in Soviet Russia
3,885 possess over X-Ray Installations, declared Pro- fessor
assistant Grashchenkov; People's Commissar of Public Health, speaking at a meeting here yesterday in connection with the Soviet anti-cancer week.
He added that 40 installations have their own radium supplies for curing cancer. The quantity of 'radium in medical institutions have" doubled that of last year, and he hoped that it will be doubled again in 1939. Reuter.
LAMA DELEGATION PLEDGES SUPPORT
Chungking. Now, 27.
After a long journcy, the delega- | tion of 108 Lama temples in Lapuleng (Blaho) on the Kansu- Chinghai border has arrived in
· Chungking to pledge support to the National Government.
The delegates were received in audience by Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman" of the National Government, yes- terday afternoon when they pre sented him with a beautifully em- broidered flag-Central New.
GUIDE TO THE NEWS
Page 3-Two frontier incl-
dents. Refugees still pour-. ing in Donations for relief. New. Kowloon Dock club- house. Page 4--News about the Ber
vices. Canton fires still rage unchecked. Aftermath of Changsha fire. Appoint ments gazetted; Page 5 The cinemas. Croes
word puzzle. Diary of local events. Musical review of the week. Page Japanese on defen- "sive, Shum Chun falls" into, Japanese hands. Pope's condition, Japanese aim to off Chinese supplies. Prime Minister's Paris visit.. Page 7-Women's page. Wed-
dings. Page -The leading articles: War at ddors" of Colony: Shurg Chun, refugee centre, Hello and goodbye. Page 10.-F. J. Lay again bril- liant. Home football results" and league tables. Olympic games film shown: Local football and rugby, Train- ing gallops.
cut
Page 11-Radio programmes: Pages 12 and 13-Finance and
commerce..".
Pages 14 & 16-Shipping news"
and directory.
GERMAN PLANE CRASH
Eleven Passengers Killed
Bathurst, Nov. 27. The 10-seater. German Luf- thansa plane, Preasson, which arrived here yesterday morning with 16 passengers on a trial Allski from Germany, crashed on a palm tree at the sero- « drome after taking off at 3.20 p.m. and caught fire.
Eleven passengers were killed and five were injured.
"The plane carried a crew of Eve and 11 engineers from the Junkers works and the Air Ministry..
A picture
15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road Central
G.P.O. Box No. 1.
数十月童推车捌拾鸯干逢英
of the Old Shum Chun Casino where Major T. Y. Chana, Commissioner of Police, had his headquarters: It was to have been 'converted into a refugee centre but the idea
has now been abandoned. (Photo by Leica),
"Where Is My
Chop?
MAJOR CHANG'S CONCERN
“THERE IS MY CHOP!"
Shum
That was the first question Among those killed" are three of Germany's leading pilots. Major T. Y. Chang asked when he The Preussen was making tests regamed consciousness after being of African climatic conditions, and wounded during the operations the cause of the accident is magainst the Japanese In known.-Reuter.
Chun on Saturday morning.
Major Chang, Commissioner of Police at Shum Chan, was shot be- hind the left shoulder blade, the bullet coming out well above the
NOT YET RISEN
Berlin, Nov. 27. From further detalls to hand concerning the disaster to the heart. Junkers plane at Bathurst His condition is regarded by the Gambia, it would appear that the authorities in the Kowloon Ho machine had not yet risen into the pital as serious but it is felt that air bit collided with an obstacle, he will pull through. ›
in
on the ground when already rolling Those who saw the Major in)} at a high speed. Fire immediately (hospital were struck by his stoic- I broke out. Commanders of the iszi. He refused to be down- plane were pliots van Blanenburg hearted and although very serious. and Varucht, both of them famous ly wounded je li maintaining his in connection with successful cheerfulness and calm, anxious to fights over the Northern Atlantic. "get into harness" again at the
-Transocean.
"carllest possible date..
NEW DEPARTURE IN ARMAMENTS POLICY
Much Speculation Behind Scenes In Germany
London, November 27.
A new departure in the German armaments policy which is not yet publicly disclosed is the subject of much speculation behind the scenes" in general diplomatic quarters, states the diplomatle correspondent of "The Observer."
"It has become known that the German Government is con- templating, an offer to be made in the spring for, the stabilisation of military strength on a basis of equality. More precisely, what the German Government contemplates la proposal that the pre-
| GOVERNOR
APPEALS FOR
REFUGEES
(To the Ed. KKDP) Sir There are
мой
some
scores of thousands of home- less, destitute refugees from South China in the New Terri- tories of this Colony and many more in and near Canton..
1 hape, therefore, that all those in a position to do, so who have not yet contributed
to the local Fund for the Rellet
of Distress in China will has- ten to give, and generously,
Contributions may be sent and cheques made payable to The British Fund for the Relief of Distress in China. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Hongkong. L. A. S. NORTHCOTE
President Hongkong Branch Hongkong, November 25.
SOVIET-POLISH RELATIONS
Retort To German Intransigence
Warsaw, Nov. 27, Improved Soviet-Polish he lations" foreshadowed in a com-. munique issued here yesterday concerning the talks in Moscow is a move considered by obser- vers here as the Foreign Minis- ter, Colonel "Beck's retort to German intransigence in face, of the desire of Poland' and Hungary to have a common frontier in Rathenis. Polish-German relations are also
sent strength of the German army and air force shall be accepted stated to have deteriorated as the by the four Western Powers as the miximum which none of those Powers shall exceed."
"Germany, therefore, would un- dertake not to add to her present strength and would agree to Bri- tain and France, if they wished, each building up to German strength. It would then be sug- geeted that the spirit of goodwill, such as was the motive of the
German offer in the cause of a peasement, should be carried a step further by an offer of colonies to Germany."
The correspondent adds that such an offer would inevitably be.
BLIMP SENT
UP AGAIN
TENSE EXCITEMENT IN SHATAUKOK
FROM A STAFF REFORTER
Shataukok, 7:30 p.in.
|
result of the failure of the German Agreement concerning the position of Polish Jewi in Germany --- Reuter-
"AGREEMENT REACHED
Moscow, Nov. 27.
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WOUNDED CHINESE POUR
INTO SHATAUKOK
Insufficient Ambulances Greatly Handicap Work
FROM A STAFF REPORTER
Shataukak. 9 p...
HAVE JUST RETURNED to Shatankok after a tour of the village' and from all sides 'there is evidence of mach fighting across the border, a continual stream of wounded soldiers being brought in here for treatment prior to being sent to either the Kowloon or Kwong Wah Hospital.
This afternoon I saw the indefatigable Mrs. R. Langley, sceretary of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, hard at work with other mem- bers of the Brigade, dressing the wounded. Most of them suffer from bullet or shrapnel wounds but there were a few with bayonet wounds.
Casino Now “H.Q.”
JAPANESE TAKE OVER PREMISES
FROM A STAFF REPORTER
Sheungshui, 11 pm.
THE SHORTAGE OF AMBU-
LANCES is greatly handicap- ping the work of the red: cross volunteers and it was learned from an authoritative source that late last evening the Fire Brigade com- municated with the, St. John Am- bulance. Brigade asking if they could lend more ambulances. As both of the cars belonging to the Brigade were already bn active: service the answer was in the negative.
CIVILIAN WOUNDED
NO MORE GUNFIRE has been
heard since this afternoon Amongst the wounded brought but this does not mean that then to Shataukok yesterday from fighting has · censod as wounded across the border was a civilian, soldiers are still coming in from victim of a bayonet" charge,
The Chinese soldiers are be- across the horder.
There are now about 600 of them having splendidly, most being im- in the internment camp at Fan-patient to return to the battlefeld ling, those requiring medical at- again,
tention being sent, away to hos
pital Immediately on arrival or BIRTH AT KULING
аз воод
ax ambulance arrange-
iments can be made...
NEW JAPANESE IL'Q.'.
Shanghai, Nov. 21.
The recent birth of a baby has
|brought Kaling's American popula-
he returned home from the belea- gured mountain resort.
The "did Carino at✨Bhuna Chini {tion, up to a total of 35," it wasR is still standing and it is learned revealed to-day by Lieut.-C. P. that the Japanese have turned Caulfierid, Executive Oficer, when this into their headquarters.
Refugees are still focking across the frontier in their hundreds-bat the situation is well in hand; al- though extra police had to be em- ployed to control the inflow.
According to a Japanese press report the largest national group at Kuling is British which is said to number 72----Reuter.
"COMING IN FROM “THE OTHER SIDE"
Refugees walking into the New Territories from the Chinese side
of the bridge. (Photo by Letca),
Soviet-Polish relations, somewhat FIRE RAGING AT DIONNE QUINS
SHUM CHUN Climbing & hill opposite Lok-
J
MAY APPEAR AT WORLD FAIR
1
disturbed by events in Czecho-, slovakia, - have been clarified as' the result of talks here between M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, and M. Grivovsky, machan on the British side, which Polish Ambassador.
overlooks shumchun, at noon yes.
New York, Nov. 27. The official Soviet, News Agency terday, a Central News reporter
The Dionne Quintuplets may The situation is quiet out here states that an agreement has been sighted fires still rading in Shum-
Chun.
appear at the New York World welcomed by Britain and France though everybody is tense with ex-reached on the following points as a basis for discussion though citement. I took a stroll in the
Atop the Customs Wireless Fair officials said yesterday that a 1. Future relations will continue Station a flag of the Rising Sun contract for the appearance of the cynics would observe that it would vicinity of the Police Station and to be based on exisiting pacta i was hoisted.. be a clever move on-Germany's as far as I could make out in their entirety, including the Non-
Quiris for several months would Japanese transport was busily be signed shortly. part more so because it happens gathering dusk, the 200 odd Chi- Aggresaton Pact signed in 1932 that, the high commands
| going · on the highway running of the nese troops who positioned them- and since extended to 1945 which, from Bhum Chun to Namtau, indi-
This would be the Quins first German army and air force have selves on the hillock overlooking it is agreed. constitute a suffl- cating that decided that it would be inadvis the Valley were still there about ciently wide basis to guarantee pushing toward Po On.
trip outside of Canada, " the Japanese.. - ware able for any further increase in an hour ago, afte
merge from Toronto states, peaceful Soviet-Polish relations. With the exception of Japanese however, that the Quintuplets" German strength to be undertaken
No gunfire was audible but the at present
2. Both countries will actively soldiers not a single Chinese civi- father has denied the report, say- Japanese are continuing their promote the extension of localian was seen at Shum Chun, the ing that his children will, under The correspondent added that activities as witness the fact that trade former propersous town now in no circumstances, be removed from not only is financial stringency the, observation balloon was exerting its effect on
northern Ontario, and that they 3 Both Governments are agreed the enemy's hands, T German again this afternoon over Shum in the necessity for a positive The Shum Chun Bridge is mann- are not exhibits-Reuter.. polley but it has been decided that Chun. the German aircraft producing
solution to a number of currented by British troops. Bandbag.bar-” plant must now be overhauled in: order to compete with British craft In quality,
A pause for at least a year is postulated in this connection.
The correspondent concludes
that in both British "and French
пр
| issues arising from mutual treaty ricades are crected there | relations and on Hqiiidation of recent frontier, incidents-Reater,
STRATEGIC POINTS
RETAKEN
Kinhwa,, Nov. 27.
It is learned from a reliable
MOSLEM: LEADER
DEAD
M.NAGGIAR LEAVES
Chung king, Nov. 20
With the departure po-day óf M. New Delhi, Nov, 27. Patil Emile Naggiar, French Am-" In a surprise attack, Chinese source that the ss. Li Hong escort- The death occurred to-day of bassador to China, who has been, quarters, the view is deliberately guerilla unlis recaptured Hslanged by a destroyer will proceed to Shaugat All, noted Moslem leader transferred as Ambasador to Mos- held that the Germán suggestion shan and Palhushan, two strategic Tolo harbour to-day where the and former lieutenant of Mahatma cow, M. F. Knobel, Counsellor of if it is duly made would be a wel-points in the vicinity of Tuhang, will take aboard some thousand | Gandhi. He played a prominent the French Fubaany, will take. come sign of progress towards set-northwest of Hangchow, on Wed-people from the Kam Tin Camp in part, in the non-co-operation charge of the Embassy affaire tled peace. Reuter.
nesday.Central News.
the New Territories.
1 movement --Reuter.
Central News.