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统㩗撥蹕佰壹仟伍萬弍鋡
POLISH
MINISTER
FOREIGN
ESTABLISHED 1857
刺孖預
15-19 Marina Hatzio, Queen's Rund
·G.P.O. Bax No. 1
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939.
BEGINS DISCUSSIONS WITH
VISCOUNT HALIFAX
Col. Beck To Converse With Premier In Study: Calls On Mr. Eden And American Ambassador
Paris Diplomatic Activity
LONDON, APRIL 4 (T/OCEAN)—THE FIRST DIS- CUSSIONS BETWEEN THE POLISH FOREIGN MINIS- TER, COLONEL BECK AND THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, LORD HALIFAX, TOOK PLACE THIS "MORNING AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND LASTED FOR OVER TWO HOURS. "Besides Lord Halifax, those who took part in the conversations were the Per- manent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan, and the Head of the Central European Department in the Foreign Office, Mr. WII- llam Strang. Colonel Beck was accompanied by the Polish Ambassador in London, Count Raczyriski, and the Head of the Western Department in the Polish Foreign Ministry, Count Potoki.
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This afternoon, after a luncheon given by Lord Halifax, Colonel Beck will call on Mr. Anthony Eden and later have a conversation with Mr. Chamberlain in the Premier's study in the House of Parliament.
On Wednesday, Colobel Beck will see the American Ambassador, Mr. J. P. Kennedy and the Hungarian Minister, M. Barcza.
Reuter reports that continued |«Erdienst," which adds, "We must *unreserved approval of Britain's declare again most emphatically new foreign policy, as enunciated] that the Relen has no intention of by Mr. Chamberlain, marks the waiting until the encirclement net comment in the French, as well as is complete and unbreakable." the British press. while the Nazi
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE- press is wrathful in Rome and LONDON, April 4 (T/Ocean)---- everything is done to belittle the British political circles early this policy which Is interpreted as an morning state that Col. Beck will aggressive attempt ta encircle use the first opportunity during **innocent Germany."
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the call on the British Foreign PARIS CONVERSATIONS Office to express the desire of his PARIS, April 4 (T/Ocean)~} country for "an agreement of While the Roush Foreign Minister, mutual assistance. This statement Col. Beck, is conducting negotia-madę by British political circles and tions with the British Goverriment appearing in London this morning. in London. Parta is likewise doing contradicts the statements from its part to prepare the ground for Polish diplomatic quarters. an anti-aggression pact.
The conversations
Loyalty To Central Government
TWO IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CHUNGKING. Apr. 4 (Router) -Two very important an- nouncements were made here to-day by the Kwangs and Yunnan
Provincial Govern- ments. Chinese circles regard them as "further evidence of the solidarity of the South- West Provinces in their sup- port and loyalty towards" the, Central Government,”
NEW COMPETITION":
Readers ・・鼻でも
advised to
watch for the new "Hongkong Dally Press" competition which is to “bemmence to- -morrow. This is conducted in conjunction with the MG.M. Pictures and will be known as "The Staldomates Competi- tion." It will be out of the or- dinary and it is expected that many readers will take part in It
DARING HUNGHOM HOLD-UP
YOUTH SEARCHED IN PUBLIC VIEW
A during strect hold-up was perpetrated by five men in a busy thoroughfare in Hungbom- district hot night.
Whilst walking along Cilles Avcaue about 30 p.m., a 23-year- old youth, named Cheung Sik-ping. of No. 38 Koon Chung Street, was
The Kwangsi military autho- itles officially announced the abolition, as from April 1, of the Fifteenth Route Army Headquarters, met by five men who surrounded and searched him and took from which acted for many years as an Independent
his person a sum of between $30 military command for the combined "Kwangsi Armies. and $40 made up of Hongkong The Kwangsi Armies, according to and Shanghat banknotes, the announcement, will hence- The robbery took place in full public view, at an hour when a large number of people were still abroad.
forth follow all other Central Government designations."
Opposite the Hongkong Hotel)
Bingle Copy: 10 Centa
HEARTBROERTA* Price per Moh: 300.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
WORKING AT FULL CAPACITY AND SPEED
Shanghai Municipal Council
NO ELECTIONS
SHANGHAI, APRIL 4 (REU- TER)—THERE WILL BE NO ELECTION FOR THE SHANG- HAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL for the next Municipal Year, starting on April 20, as only nine nominations colved for the nine seats.
were
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The Council will, therefore, con- tinue to consist of two Ame- ricans, five Britons and two Jap- anese.
THE COUNCIL ·
The new Council will comprise- Mr. Cornell S. Franklin-serior member of the law firm, Franklin and Harrison;
Mr Albert C. Cornish general manager, Standard-Vacuum Onl Company: ..
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LONDON, April 4 (BW8)—The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, speaking at Liverpool on aircraft pro- duction, said that the Government had taken many steps to add to the strength of the nation's defences and he was glad to see the aircraft industry, which some time ago was considerably extended, now work- ing to full capacity with energy and speed. They had also, in the last year, greatly broadened the basis of production of aircraft and had greatly extended the policy of taking work to labour. Some 3,500 firms were HOW engaged in sub-contracting work. Their labour forces, in aircraft pro-i duction generally,
being steadily increased month by month,
Maintaining
and during the Food Supplies
inst few months had been
creased by 40
per cent Con-
In War Time
«currently, they lieben
had greatly drï-} creased the
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SCHEME DEVISED
IN BRITAIN capacity in the manufacture of LONDON, April 4 (BWS)AS engines, materi- part of the plans for maintaining S.Wood and
als, components food supplies in the event of war,
the Food Defence Plans Depart accessories Mr. G. A. Haley-director of the of armaments and equipment of ment have framed a scheme in
Chemical Industries Imperial
(China) Ltd;
all kinds and he could say, with consultation with their Advisory
оп Provisions confidence, that the new Britian Committee
and Mr. W., J. Keswick, taipan of aircraft were as formidable as any
Groceries, for the grouping of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson
in the warld.
wholesale Arms of provision deal- iers and grocers which serve the In types, now being issued in the more densely populated areas of
¡Co., Ltd.
and
Mr. R. G. Macdonald-assistant
The Yunnan Provincial. Gover- ment announced that "the mint cended on their victim, the men
As suddenly they had des in Kunming is to be transferred dispersed and fed in the direction to the Central Government and is of Binslow Btreet. After a short) to be known as the Yunnan Branch chase, one has robbers was/ger, Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., of the Central Mint."
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MORE ARMY PLANES FOR AMERICA
"President Signs $358,000,000 Defence Bill
WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reu- ter)-President Roosevelt to day signed the $358,000,000 Army, Alr and Defence Bill authorising that a large pro- The "Daily Telegraph" emphasiz-
portion of the sum should be which the ed that any guarantee undertaken.
to increasing army devoted Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet, had by Britain would comprise the en- on Monday with the Soviet Russian tire Polish territory, including the
planes to 6,000. Ambassador, M. Suritz, the British Polish Corridor and Danzig. The
The remainder of the money la Ambassador. Sir Eric. Phipps, and diplomatic correspondent of the to be utilized for the Panama the Turkish Minister, Suad Dawaz, paper reports that Moscow is kept Canal defences and "to educate all served this purpose," according continually informed on the pro- the United States industry in the to "Excelsior" this morning.
gress of the negotiations.
M. Bonnet informed the diplo- matic representatives of the three above mentioned Powers that France regards, not only Poland's and Rumania's, but also the Soviet Union's and Turkey's participation
manufacture of war materials,”
UNSUCCESSFUL JAPANESE
in the defensive alliance, as dest-DRIVES IN NORTH: FIGHTING
able.
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The semi-oficial "Petit Farisien CENTRES ROUND KAO AN
concludes from Mr. Chamberlain's
speech that the British Premier is holding the same view as France. The paper says that Mr. Chamber- lain's speech marked the beginning
of a complete reorganization of British policy.
arrested but "Lie capture.
wraded
A warning was sent by Hung hom police to all districts, and
a striot watch was maintained for suspicious persona,
MORE LRA.
MEMBERS
Butterfeld and Swire; manager, Dodwell and Co., Ltd., bomber and fighter forces, this the coun
Mr. G. E. Mitchell-talpan of country possessed the best in the The scheme is a special one for world, Efforts had still to be in application to these trades on Mr. T. 8. Powell-general mana-tensiñed but they could register which, in the last stages of dis- to-day a great increase in their in-tribution, the public relies for a Mr. O. Okomoto-barrister-at-trinale strength strength which number of important foods, in- law of Muraskini and Co.
was becoming menggeta12
Mr. T. Sugtaka-manager, Osaka Powerful. yosen Kaisya, Ltd...
-cluding four bacon;, sugar, tea, wafter and margarine,
After luncheon, Str Kingsley It is designed, in particular, as a FIVE CHINESE MEMBERS
Wood visited Rootes factory. Be-safeguard against the possibilty. fore beginning his return fight to that the main office of a wholesale There are five Chinese members London. he said, to the factory, arm or its warehouse or transport je the Shanghal Municipal Council The progress made in the last few facilities, might be damaged, or
-Messra. Yu. Ya-ching, Yulin Hsu months has been remarkable. My
destroyed.
Eugene Y. B. Klang. W. Gockson) Arst comment upon, this achieve- The Department ask wholesale and another newly-copted member. ment is to thank many thousands arms, as a measure of precaution. The Chinese members are elected of people who have shown such to form themselves into groups in by the Chinese Ratepayers Associa-energy,..capacity and speed.
I peace time. SENTENCED tion and not by the foreign com- know they realize the vital work in
FILL THE GAP The scheme provides that, if in. wir conditionis, one or more Arms.
LONDON, "April 4 (Reuter)-Sex-munity. įtences were passed at the Old Balley to-day on three more mem-
bers at the Irish Republican Army,
an 18-year-old girl being sentenced
to three years in Borstal for pos- FISHERY sessing explosive substances, and
two brothers, being sentenced to
AGREEMENT
inve and four-and-a-half years" SOVIET
penal servitude, respectively, ton possessing an alarm clock fitted for timing an explosion.
""GOLD RING LOST
Mrs. Bains, of Cosmopolitan Docks has reported to the police the loss of a gold ring, set with two diamonds, and valued at £25, between the Docks and the Star Ferry wharf between 10 and 11 |a.m. yesterday.
THE DOLLAR TT. ON LONDON: 1s. 2.11/164. T.T. ON NEW YORK: 281
London. Silver Market From Our Own: Correspondent London, April 4. London silver prices to-day" were
SIUSHUI, April 4 (Central)-The fighting in Klangsi still centres around Kaoan, on the Nanchang-Changsha highway. Japanese drives on the town so far have been unsuccessful. After suffering reverses at the hands of the Chinese, the Japanese invading Fuslangkuan, a strategic down 1/18 for Forward and w point northeast of Kaoan, were heavily reinforced yester-changed for Spot as follows: day and continued their thrust toward Kaoan.
Forward
NOT UNDERSTOOD. BERLIN, April 4 (Reuter)-The British Government clearly has not
Japanese troops occupying 'Wu- ground. Two Chinese regimenta Spot understood Hitler's speech, says an aing north-west of Nanchang, which crossed the River at Hung- inspired news agency "Deutsch made feeler thrusts toward the mino (Red Temple) have
south-west to synchronize with the captured Banhotang. drive toward Kagan, but were re- pulsed.
GOOD FRIDAY
The offices of the "Hong- koor Dally Press wil be closed on Good Friday but will reopen as usual on Satur- day. There will be'no insure of the paper on Saturday, The next issue will appear on Monday morning as usual. Advertisers
are kindly rec quested to send in their copy as early as possible to-, ELOTTOW. Contributors, pecially those dealing with
·Church, narvices and, sports programmes, likewise are earnestly asked to co-operate. by sending in their "copy"
early.
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Te-
The west wharf at Chungslang has been retaken by the Chines The Japanese occupying - Nah-Japanese troops sent out fron chang are maintaining an outer Chungsinng were defeated, suffer- defence line at Tsingan, Fenghsten ing some
233 casualties. Trai- and"Anyl to forestall any Chinese chisho, in east Hupeh. has been attempt to recapture the city. récaptured by the Chinese,
WESTWARD DRIVE
IN SOUTH SHANSI LOYANG, April 4 (Central)-A BLAN, April 4 (Central) Follow- Japanese combined unit of intan-ing their sweeping victory over the try and cavalry men launched a Japanese who attempted to drive fresh drive towards the west of towards Pingin, and Maotsintu, in Wenhsien, In "northern Honan, on south Shanai, Chinese forces are Bunday. Fierce fighting has been now engaged in a vigorous envelop raging at Nanwang. about three ing attack on Changtienchen, miles from Wenhsien.
south of Falahsien, and Mainan- chen, west of Pingiu.
“CHINESE GAIN GROUND *ICHANG, HUPEH, April 4 (Cen- Changtienchen, latest military tral) Chinese troops who crossed despatches received here indicate, the Han River to counter-attack is surrounded on three sides by the the Japanese continue to gain Chinese.
April 3 April 4
19-15/16 19-15/16 19-3/4 19-11/16
GUIDE TO THE NEWS PAGE 2-Badminton titles in Shanghai HK Cycling Club, Local soccer fixtures, PAGE 8-Radio prog:amNGES. The Services, Crossword
Diary of
puzzle.
PAGE 5 Cinemas.
local events. PAGE 6.- Women's
-page. Forthcoming weddings, New settes
PAGE 1-Education of chrd- ren in refugee camps, Doctor sued by midwife. Burp fac raid by police PAGE Bany fears war PAGES 12 and 13-Finance
and commerce: PAGES 14 and 15 Shipping
news and directory.
which they are engaged."
SHOWS
WORLD
HOW TO TREAT AGGRESSIVE NATIONS
Significant Trends In
Japanese Policy
LONDON, APRIL 4 (REUTER)—“ THE SOVIET HAS JUST COMPLETED A LITTLE PRACTICAL DE- MONSTRATION ON HOW TO TREAT AGGRESSIVE NATIONS," says the "Manchester Guardian” în "a leader on the Russo-Japanese Fishery Agreement. "The Japanese Government," the paper adds, "blustered and threatened, but, Litvinoff was not impressed. How right he was is now proved."
"Japan cumbed down and has now agreed to take 27 lets less than
it did last year, and at a ten per cent higher rental, if only Russia would agree to extend the old con- vention one more year. Litvinof graciously consented.”......
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in a 'group were temporarily unable to maintain distribution," other members would fill the gap," on terms to be mutually arranged, un- til the former firm or firms were: able to resume.
Every Arm would carry on its existing business unless and until, in circumstances beyond its con- trol, need, for assistance arose.
The Department wish to make the scheme known to every whole sale provision dealer and grocer. They ask all such traders "and Arms in areas, which are specified in detail in the scheme, to form themselves into groups at once, ap- pointing a secretary for each group, who should forward to the Department, not later than April | 15, necessary particulars so that the groups may be approved as complying with the scheme and re- cognized,
100 SQUADRONS NOW FORMED LONDON, April 4 (BWB) More than 100 squadrons of the Air De- ience Cadet Corps have now been formed and though a similar num rer of squadrons remains to be formed, they are coming indo existence so rapidy, that the limit
BOY KILLED IN of 200 squadrons will be reached
BUS MISHAP
without much dimculty,
This wij mean that all 20,000 cadets whom the Air League set out to organize will be receiving A boy, named Ho Chi, nine preliminary training in air mat Conversely, the "Manchester years old, was killed almost in-ters to make them valuable to the Guardian" emphasizes that France, stantaneously when he was knocked auxillary and volunteer sections of who trusted appeasement," is now
DAILY PRESS DELIVERY
finding her mistake in Japan hav-down by a motor bas about 12.40 the Air Force as they get older. ing occupied Hainan, which was yesterday in Queen's Road formerly considered almost a West, near Water Street, French protectorate, and now
The boy, who lived at No. 440 baving annexed the Sprattley Islands, of which the French Navy Queen's Road West, first floor, had taken possession In 1933, and suddenly darted from the pavement which were formally claimed by the into the middle of the road and French Government in 1933. got into the way of bus No. 645, The annexation by Japan is which was proceeding to a wester significant of two trends in Japan-17 direction.
The
ese polley the southward advance so near to naval quarters and the
bus stopped and principle, more generally held, of ambulance was summoned advancin along the line of lesat arrival, however, 16 mu found
that the boy was already dead.
Complaints have been re- celved regarding late delivery, and in some deeg non-de« Every of the allon kong Dally.
We shall be 12 reader.so inconvent
mediately by