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WUCHOW'S WAR-TIME Civilian. Defence Plans And
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PREPARATIONS
Precautionary Measures Against Air Raids
Wachow, December 7.
depopulation
Wuchow, Important gateway to Kwangsi at the confluence of the Kwel and West River, near, the Kwangtung border, is strenuously making war-time preparations. As a result of the process, started towards the end of last October, only about half of the former 90,000 populace now remain in the city.
'Strict vigilance is kept on travellers coming into, the city, whlie avigorona campaign against subversive elements has been launched.
As а precautionary measure in every school with students as against al: ralds, several elaborate members and teachers as leaders, dugouts and caves have been dug Members of these units are liable in the mountains for sheltering to be despatched to the neigh- the people. Two of the largest bouring villages to train the pea- caves are capable of accommodat-sants in these services."
ing at least a thousand people.
Lately mallitary training for "able-
National Register
Landon, December 7.
Plans for civilian defence in Britalo were detalled by Siz John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, opening a debate in the House of Com- anon's last night on voluntary service plans. Sir John disclosed that discussions of the lists of reserved occupations with employers and representatives of the workers had already been Initiated.
From January 1, he said, there Special arrangements were being would be training with regard to made for the training of Arst-ald incendiary bombs and high explo-parties with the assistance of the sions, and 240 fully qualified in St. John Ambulance Brigade and structors would come forth every the British Red Cross society. month from the special schools and No dimculty was expected i be able to expand the training in large areas about the training of different localities.
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He announced that the training
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The National Voluntary Register of Air Raids Wardens was being would include a register of people reorganised so as to include in-with special administrative qual- struction in the meeting of an in-fications. There would be a special cendiary bomb attack, elementary register for those with exceptional it ald and exercises in working scienting and professional know-
tedge-Reuter. communications system.
FRANCO-GERMAN DECLARATION
Paris, Dec. 7.
The Franco-German declaration
was signed in the great clock room of the Foreign Office at 3.30 yesterday. afternoon.
The replenishment of food stored bodied men in the city has been. in granaries is made compulsary in further tightened. The training is Wuchow and the cultivation of scheduled to be completed by next more food crops is officially en- January 12.
since the fall of Samshui, on couraged.
The educational programme in the West River about 30 miles west Wachow is carried on a war-time of Canton, a marked dwindling inment was signed with a gold foun- basis.
Students are to undergo Wuchow's trade has been noted, tain pen by Herr von Ribbentrop training in war-time services. A Merchandise for export is" unable war-time service corps is organised to find an outlet and is piled high
in the warehouses. On the other hand, the city is facting an acute shortage of imported goods, result-
BASIC FOREIGN Ing in the rise of their prices.
POLICY OF
CHINA
Mr. Wang Ching-wei's Statement
RELATIONS WITH
› POWERS
other
'Prices of rice. fuel and native products remain as usual. Central News
PUPPET OPENS GAMING HOUSE IN SHANGHAI
Chungking, Dec. 7.
A large gambling house back- ed up by Fu Stao-en, the so- called "Mayor of Shanghai," will be established at Lanlitu. Paotung, and will be known under the name of the Yung 14 Company, states a Shang-.. hal message.
"A large quantity of Persian
The German copy of the doc
HERR VON RIBBENTROP
while the French copy was simi- larly signed by M. Bonnet.
DEFENCE PROBLEM OF AUSTRALIA
Berlin, Dec. 7.
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The "Frankfurter Zeltüng" to- day comments on Australia's de- fence problem.
Arguing that
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migration would help more than
Increased Im
gramme, the paper says, "The real the présent rearmament "pro-
danger lies in her vast uninhabited atens. A nation of seven million cannot create an army equal to that of a great Power. Farseeing men in Canberra and Sydney have realised this danger and called
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938.—PAGE 9
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The decisive question for the Australian nation is whether she car grasp this doctrine or whether she will continue to allow the blind selfishness of fridividuals to undermine the future of her com- munity" the paper concludes.-- Reuter.
THREE-YEAR PROGRAMME
Canberra. Dec. 7. Further extension of the Aue- 'tralian Three-Year-Defence pro At the conclusion of the cere-gramme was announced by the mony M. Daladler. and the wo
Minister of Defence. in which the
Changking. Dec. 7. "China's basic foreign polley is to join hands, in the spirit of in- dependence and self-determina- tion with the nations of the world syrspolietic t
and plum. valued at $3.000.000. was Fareign Ministers accompanied by expenditure is now fixed at £83. our nation people, for a united front to check recently shipped to Shanghal from their sultes and by the Ambassa Japanese aggression and to estab-Dalren, adds the report. The drus dors, Count Welczech and M. Con- lish world peace, declared Mr. it is revealed, is intended for sale londre, proceeded to the Salle de million Wang Ching-wel, Chairman of the in Shanghat by a concern organs la Rotonde where discussions im-Navy Central Political Council of the ed by Chinese hondlums under mediately began.---Transocean. Knofuntang, in a lengthy state-Japanese, employ
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ment published this morning.
"Therefore." Mr. Wang, Ching- Viei says. "regarding our lations with Germany and Italy. We should do
utznost to prevent them from, joining our enemy's camp while regarding our reiations with Britain, America. France and Russia we should do our utmost to bring about, their" taking positive action against Japan"
PEOPLE KEPT ON THE MOVE
000,000, an increase of £19,000,000 on the present plan. Over twenty are to be spent on the
Mr. Casey, the Federal Treasurer. announced the introduction of a ten. million sterling defence loan bill,
an unspecified portion of which is to be borrowed in London to assist Bnancing the defence expansion.
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Highlights of the new programme
are.
No More Competitive Tennis Likelv
Los Angeles, Dec. 7. In a statement to-day. Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody, eight times Wimbledon champlon, said that she does not expect to play fur- ther in competitive lawn tennis but "if the United States Lawn
PATRIOTIC POSTERS Posters and handbills urging continued resistance to the Jap- anese have appeared under the
Paris, Dec. 7: very Dose of Yangtzepon, east of Shanghai.
the Japanese In Herr Von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, this morning The message Japanese military authorities are The Unknown Warrior at the Arch states that the placed a wreath on the grave of concerned
Aver the Increasing de Triomphe. Chinese patriotic activities.-Cen-- No crowds gathered as no an- tral News,
nouncement of the ceremony appeared in the morning news-be built in Sydney..
have the opportunities to whip papers. Everybody around the The Air Force is to be increased my game into condition I am most Filth Plenary Session of the Cen- AWAIT "FREEZING OF Arch, which was surrounded by from 17 to 18 squadrons and 212 likely to accept the invitation to Mobile Guards, were kept on the machines are to be stationed at represent the United States again move.-Reuter.
Townsville, Queensland.-Reuter.
Commenting on the forthcoming i
YELLOW RIVER
Chungking, Dec. 7.
WORLD'S
Two destroyers of the Tribal Class,
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DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ANTI-HINDU LEADER
(Continued from Pare 8)
SENTENCED
London, Dec. 7. The leader of the anti-Hinda for those who sympathise or main- movement in Madras, Ramaswam tain connections with the Japanese, Naicker, has been sentenced to one. (not even for those who "unoff year's imprisonment with hard - clally sound the Japanese for their bour, states a report received here. peace terms, etc., etc.").
Nalcker was chosen President of the Non-Bramin Conference. He Whether that function
was afterwards reproached with organizing Service is fulfilled de- having in this capacity delivered
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Twelve motor torpedo boats to Tennis Association need me and r/pends on the individual members speeches inciting his hearers to
NEWS
iral Executive Committee of the Kuomintang: 10 open here on December 15, Mr. Wang Ching-wel declares, "Many members, due to General Chu Shao-lang, Gover- pressure of duties at the front, nor of Kansu Province, states that IN THE. are unable" to arrive in Chungking the Japanese may await the freez- before the opening of the con- ing of the Yellow River which will ference.
enable them to send mechanised It is questionable whe- units across the ice-bound river ther these members actively en into the north-west provinces.
Tuesday. He received congratula- gaged in work in the arcas under Japanese military occupation will be heavily and extensively bomb- Japanese aircraft are reported to
tory messages from Hitler and Following a declaration by the Goering. be able to arrive in Chungking in ing cities and villages to the west Premier, M. Paul Spaak, that the time for the conference."
Mr. Wang Ching-wel adds that particularly
and also in south Sulyuan province Government would not resign un-HOLLAND whether the date of the opening westward of Paotou, and Turig-
Lingho. less defeated, the Belgian Cham- ber accorded the Government a of the Fifth Plenary Session may sheng and Tashuwan, southward vote of confidence on Tuesday, be postponed cannot be predicted of Paotou.-Reuter. as yet.-Reuter.
Wuyuan.
BELGIUM
The Dutch plane. Reigner, start- ed on Tuesday from Amsterdam on a fight to Bouth Africa. ITALY
in international competition.”— Reuter.
SOVIET ABDUCTION TRIAL IN PARIS
Paris, Dec. 7. Shouting
am a martyr. Heaven knows how I am suffering." Mme. Skobline, centrai figure in the famous Soviet abduction case, collapsed over the rall of the dock after a barrage of questions about the whereabouts of Gen. Miller, white Russian exile in Paris. who mysteriously disappeared last year.
Asked whether Gen; Miller was alve or dead. Mme. Skobline Five hundred Italian students turned to Mme. Miller, who was Inns of Court at which barristers demonstrated on Tuesday outside sitting sad-eyed in the well of the Queente and her Hawaiian enter- day night with the Masters of the shouting, Tunis, Nice, Corsica." "I know nothing about your hus- qualify to practice, dined on Tues-the French Consulate at Genoa court, and exclaimed emotionally: tainers again drew 2 crowd to the Gloucester Hotel
very ble Bench of his inn. The Lord Chief They were dispersed by police band." last night. As usual every item
Justice presided. was loudly cheered and the enter
QUEENIE DELIGHTS AT GLOUCESTER
BRITAIN
The King. Who is a Bencher of the Inner Temple, one of the four
GIRL WHO WANTS TO BE REFUGEE Soccer's, Arst woman referee is on the way. Her name is Kathleen Gerrard she has flaming red hair. Ever since she was knee high she's tainers had to give several en- of Commons on Tuesday that been interested in football. ·
So between numbers at the show she ran off a letter to the AFA seeking permission to sit for the examination they hold for aspiring .referees.
In reply she has received a copy of "The Referee's Chart," the Bible of refereeing, which needs to be
cores.
without incident.
|LITHUANIA
was killed on
Mr. Chamberlain told the House
A Lithuanian there had been no discussion with Tuesday by two Memel Germans urual good form and everybody the administration of the Suez Nazi salute.
The Hotel orchestra was in its the Italian Government regarding when he refused to reply to the voted it a capital evening. There Canal. were inany large parties for dinner while many more people came in later in the evening,
RUSSIA
The Duke of Connaught will re- A purge in the Soviet Russian sign his Ing-standing leadership" fleets-stationed at Viadivostok and of British freemasonry early next in the Amur River has recently year and will be succeeded by the been carried out, it is reported. Duke of Kent.
TRINIDAD
learnt by heart before an applicant PRESIDENT LEBRUN can hope to pass the stiff test. President and Mme Lebrun re- According to the AA. there is cently, officially accepted the in- no rule barring women from bevitation of the King and Queen to broadcast on Tuesday night sat of Spain, Alled with Christmas coming referees The question has come to London on March 21. never arisen before. but there is nothing to stop Miss Gerrard get-
The B.B.C. foreign language The customś warehouse at Port
that there had been virtual un goods, was destroyed on Tuesday animity of opinion in Britain in in one of the biggest fires ever ex- The Princess Royal, who was ac- support of the French protest perienced in Trinidad. Eleven ting on the referees' list if she can companied by the Earl of Derby, against the agitation in Italy on lighters also caught fire. pass the necessary tests.
"I've been interested in football Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, and behalf of the cession of Tunis,
|UNITED STATES ever since I was a child," says Miss the Earl of Sefton, and the Coun-Nice and Corsica. Gerrard. I intend to go through tess of Sefton, lald a stone com- CZECHOSLOVAKIA with this thing and see what hap-memorating
pens."
the extension to
President Roosevelt, who has re- turned to Washington from a holl- Blackburn Cathedral.
Dr. Chvalkovaky, Foreign Minis-day in the warm springs in Geor. ter, will shortly proceed to Berlin. gia, summoned Mr. Sumner Welles, Rings and other jewellery were it is reported.
Assistant Secretary of State, and the Italian, German and French Ambassadors on Tuesday for what
The death occurred in Bhangha! stolen from a jeweller's shop in Old GERMANY on Monday of Mrs. Tu Yueh-sun. | Oak-road, East "Acton, by thres.
wife of the managing director of men in a car, one of whom smash- Field Marshal, August von Maç- | was described as a general discus- the Chung Wai Banking Corpora-cd the window, although there was kensen, famous German soldier,sion and exchange of views on the tion.
a steel grille Inside,
celebrated his 89th birthday on international situation.
Mme. Skoline related how she rose from a humble peasant girl in the Ukraine and became one of the most famous opera singers in pre-War Russia-Reuter.
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