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PLEBISCITE IN THE DANZIG?: IMPORTANT
ROME-BERLIN TALKS NOW TAKING PLACE
PROMOTION FOR C-IN-C CHINA
STATION
Sir Percy Noble
Now Admiral
His many friends in foreign and Chinese circles both in Hongkong and to other parts of the Far East will join ́fìì| congratulating His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Lock- hart Harnam Noble, K.C.B., C.V.0. Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, on his promotion to the rank of Ad- miral in His, Majesty's Fleet."
His flag will be holsted at the main in H.M.S. Kent at 8 o'clock this morning.
Admiral Sir Percy Noble, who succeeded Admiral Sir Charles Little, was born in 1880 and enter-
"Axis An Instrument Of Peace"
More German Suggestions Expected: Polish Chamber Summoned For Tuesday
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OF
BERLIN, MAY 7 (REUTER)—DECISIONS IMPORTANCE REGARDING DANZIG ARE NOT EX- PECTED FOR THE PRESENT, according to political circles, where there is talk' of a plebiscite in Danzig. It must be left to the population there to decide whe- ther they want to return to the Reich'or remain a free state, it is asserted.
rk
It is now reluctantly confirmed in well-informed quarters that Herr Hitler yesterday conferred with Herr Greiser and Herr Foerster and hence Herr Von Ribben- trop has gone to Milan with full knowledge of the wishes of the Danzig leaders and Herr Hitler's instruc-
ttons.
AMERICAN PILOT KILLED IN CHUNGKING
CHUNGKING, May 7 (Ren- ter)-It was disclosed to-day that Weiggle, an American pilot who joined the inter- national volunteer bombing squadron was killed here on Thursday when his plane crashed.
He was the only member of the squadron to remain with the Chinese Air Force after the squadron was disbänded.
A tea party was held on Friday afternoon when the Hongkong Branch of the Sino-American Institute of Cultural Relations was formally inaugurated. The Hon. Sir Shouson Chow (above)
centre seated) presided.
"WE MUST BE
READY"
LONDON, "May 7 (Reuter)- Sir John Simon, speakingst Great
BRITISH DIPLOMATIC MISSION MEMBERS
-
Yarmouth yesterday, AID CHINESE WOUNDED
discussed the decision to [n- troduce 'conscription.
He said that the reason was that, On Thursday evening when the with the speed with which events Japanese raiders were approaching moved to-day, they must be ready Chungking. Weiggle took off in a in, the very first hour. training plane and while taking They could not begin, as Lord a sharp turn the engine stalled Kitchener did in 1914, after a war and the machine crashed, killing was started. It was now 'necessary the American pilot instantly.. to show the country's strength
Weiggle had many friends immediately.
ROME, May 7 (Reuter)-and Italy, the latter's criticism ed the Navy in 1894. From 1935 to The official "Informazionej being mild. German omcial com- among foreign circles here. 1937. Sir Percy was Fourth Sea Diplomatica alludes to the ment is critical" "Lord and Chief of Supplies and Ribbentrop-Clano conversa- The "Diplomatische Korrespon-
Transport. He was Navil A.D.C. tions and says: "While noth- deniz"
to the King in 1929.
REAPPOINTED
expresses
AVIATEEX INJURED CHUNGKING, May 7 (Central)- surprise that A brief Washington dispatch states
ing sensational will emerge Poland did not immediately ac- that Miss Li Ya-ching, well-known from the Milan talks, it will cept the proposals and that Col. Chinese aviatrix, was slightly in- A Reuter message from London be made clear that the Axis, Beck's speech did not offer any lured during a fight yesterday states that Admiral Sir Percy Noble while being ready to defend
valid reasons for the refusal is reappointed Commander-in-itself strenuously against at-ports of terroriam in Poland.
There are further German re- days. Chief of the China Station on tempts at encirclement, is not
promotion.
MANILA ROCKED BY: SEVERE TREMORS
TWO ROADS a-factor-for-war, but an-in-—WARSAW, May 7 (Reuter)—"It strument of peace."
is now for Germany to speak." ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄MILAN, May 7 (Reuter) — writes the newspaper "Dobry-
To-day's conversations between Count Clano and Herr Von Ribbentrop ended 7 pan. hav- Ing lasted over two hours. It
She is, expected to recover in a few.
EIRE'S REVENUE DEFICIT
wieczor." "The world is agreed the present revenue basis, the Eire DUBLIN, May 7 (Reuter)-On that Berlin should furnish proofs Budget will be some 10,000,000 If understanding with Poland is short and this will have to be really desired.”
Shark Caught Outside H.K. Harbour
Mr. Wong Kok-chin,,, of the
.."
SHANGHAI, MAY 7 (REUTER)-FURTHER DE- TAILS OF THE DISASTROUS BOMBING OF CHUNG- KING ON THURSDAY were received by Reuter, in a message" despatched on the night of the rald but only received to-day. The message discloses that the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, was not in the Consulate-General at the time it was bombed.
He was at the Foreign Office hostel situated further west, but. later in the night got through the
CHINESE cordons thrown around there GOVERNMENT'S
areas," when he inspected the damage done to the Consulate- General.
H.
I
CONCERN ::
At the time of the bombing Mr. CHUNGKING, May 7 (Reuter)... Prideaux-Brune, Acting Mr. Tuan Mou-lan, Secretary of Chinese Counsellor. was in the the Foreign Office, to-day called. compound of the Consulate-Gener-on the foreign Embassies and Con- al together with Mr. J. D. Green-sulates expressing the--Chinese
Sun Company, who last yearway, Piret Secretary, Mr. #. Btark Government's deep concern at the.
was successful in catching flye sharks within the waters of the Colony, made his first big catch this year yesterday when he bagged a shark outside of Lyeeman PasS.
Toller, Consul-General, and Mrs. Stark Toller
Two bombs struck the build- ing used by the British Diplo matic Mission, but glanced off the roof and exploded on the is believed that Danzig was the
found either by more taxation or With Mr. Wong in the "party
ground & few yards away. "The borrowing.
were Inspector S. C. Saunders, of main subject of discussion.
The Deputy Premier of Eire, the police, and Mr. Choi Hon-
explosion resulted in the shat- STUDENTS' BOYCOTT
tering of every glass window sailed for New York. yesterday | kwan. GDYNIA; May 7 (Reuter) -
of the building. where be will open the Eire The shark, which was 5 feet 10: MANILA, May 7 (Reuter)-Trouble in the Danzig Polytechnic,
Pavilion at the World's Fair. He inches in length, and weighing 05 to the house where Mr. and Mrs.. Four explosions caused damage Manila's Saturday night fes- which caused anti-German riots The Conservative paper "Czas" is taking the place of Mr. de lbs, was caught about one mile Stark Toller are tivities were dampened at 1.01 earlier in the year, was renewed thinks that the return to Warsaw Valera, who cancelled his trip at north of Lyeemun Pass, and is be-neither of them was hurt. Under staying. but yesterday or the German Ambas- the last moment. a.m. when the city was rocked with the start of the new term.
lieved to be from a school, The Polish students complain sador, Herr Von Moltke,
may
The "Wieczor Warszawsk!" declares: "Berlin has now to choose between two roads, of which one is the road to peace."
by intermittent earth tremors, that their grievances have not yet mean that further German sug- of which one of 20 seconds been remedied and decided to boy-gestions are to be expected. duration is said to be the cott the lectures.
The plenary session 01 the severest since August, 1937.
GERMAN PRESS SURPRISE Chamber has been called for Many were aroused from LONDON, May 7 (Reuter)-Col Tuesday for a debate for granting "their sleep and ran out into Beck's speech on Friday has met the President special powers and the streets, but there were no with approval of every country, to promulgate decrees for financing casualties.
with the exception of Germany detence. The Senate held a plen-
ary session on Thursday.
A
"CHUNGKING ATTACKS WILL BE CONTINUED WITH GREATER FORCE””
Statement By Japanese Admiralty Spokesman
At Tuesday's meeting, the Government will be given full powers. Yesterday; the Lower House approved of this Bl to which both the Jewish and Ukranian delegates gave their blessing.
"FOLISH REJECTION
..
CHINESE CLOSING AGAIN ON NANCHANG: FIGHTING IN CENTRAL HUPEH
KAOAN, KIANGST, May 7 (Contra))--Hostilities have again been brought to the immediate outskirts of Nanchang as a result of the fresh Chinese counter-attacks,
The Chinese are closing in on the city from the west, east and south. Vanguards of the Chinese units driving from the east have reached Chippan Road, east of Nanchang.
Chinese units to the west of hostilities are kept up on various Nanchang have occupied Chayuan-fronts.
of the
lantern-light, members diplomatic mission and the Con-. sulate-General gave first aid treat- ment to. Chinese who had been wounded in the raid.
مجید
THE WINDSORS
deliberate bombing of Chungking by the Japanese on May 4."
Pope Pius
And Urge For Peace.
BROADCAST TO ALGIERS
VATICAN CITY, May 7 (Router)
The Duke and Duchess of Wind-Pope Pius XII in a bradeast 10 sor have arrived in Verdun to pay Conference at Algiers made brief, the French National Eucharistic a visit to the battlefields of the reference to peace so ardently World War. The Duke and Duchess desired by anxious humanity,” were welcomed by the civil, mili- tary and ecclesiastic authorities of the town(TO.).
DUKE TO BROADCAST NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuter)
His Holiness, urged that the month of May, should be entirely brder that there should descend" devoted to universal prayer in
The Duke of Windsor will broad- from heaven to earth by the hands
ด
Intervention
GUIDE TO THE NEWS In Danzig
jahan, about saven miles west. The Chinese counter-drive in cast to America on May 8 from of the Immaculate Virgin that WARSAW. May 7 (Reuter)The Meanwhile, the Chinese column central Hupeh has reaped tangible the historic battlefield town of peace promised to all men and Polish Government's memorandum, pushing northward to, Nanchang results. The Chinese right wing Verdun where he is at present goodwill peace in the souls of those In reply to the recent German has passed through Lientang, ap- bas cut the Hankow-Ichang high-taying, according to a statement troubled by the calls and seductions note denouncing the German-proximately nine miles south, way and has "mopped up" the issued by the National Broadcast-of false doctrines and peace be- Polish Agreement of 1934, rejects Yukow, north-east of Nanchang, Japanese- at Yunglungho and Ing Company of America, It is tween nations shuddering in un- the thesis that Anglo-Polish un-has been recovered by the Chinese. Yangchlachiang, important. points stated the broadcast will begin at ceasing, anxiety. derstanding is incompatible with With its recapture the Japanese on the highway. The Chinese lett 10 p.m. (B.S.T.), - TOKYO, MAY 7 (REUTER) THE JAPANESE
the Polish-German non-aggression rear is menaced.
wing is engaging 1,000 Japanese at ATTACKS ON CHUNGKING AND OTHER MILITARY
Pact, which, it says, Herr Hitler
INTENSE FIGHTING, Taerhwan, north" POINTS WILL BE CONTINUED WITH INCREASING
had no right to denounce..
of Suthalen: ICHENG, HUPEH, May 7 (Cen-Other Chinese units are assaulting The reply adds that if the Ger-tral-Fighting in central Hupeh the Japanese FORCE until the Kuomintang Government is crushed,"
troops scattered man Government attaches declared a Japanese Admiralty spokesman to-day.
any has increased in intensity with along the Kingmen-Chungŝiang value to drawing up in contractual the arrival of reinforcements on highway. Referring to the bombing of the casualties are now estimated at form good neighbourly relations. both sides, British
In north Kiange the Japanesë Consulate-General, the 5.000 dead and wounded.
the Polish Government was ready The Breas east of Japanese
Bulhsien, at Fenghsin, 23 miles west of Nan- naval authorities Eri The British Embassy arid Conto consider such suggestions which north-west of Hankow, are the chang, have suffered heavily as Shanghal stated, according to sulate Staff have evacuated take account of the Polish point scene of bloody engagements. The result of the Chinese enveloping Domet: "It was absolutely neces Chungking proper to a place across of view... sary for Japanese planes to silence the river. some fifty anti-aircraft guns which, opened fire on them from near the British, French, and German Consulates. In acrial bombing stray bombs are inevitable."
FIRES RAGING
CHUNGKING, May 6 (Reuter)
GERMAN WOMAN KILLED
German A
woman, Mrs. Huber, was found dead yester- day near the German Con- sulate.
She was apparently killed while trying to take refuge in the Con The Ares caused in Thursday's air sulate, which was finally savedį rald continue to rage, and the from fire undamaged...
DEMOBILIZATION
IN SPAIN
General Franco decreed
on
Baturday the demobilization
of
No bombs were dropped. when' Japanese raiders again appeared over Chungking yesterday. The planes, however, once again drop- ped cigarettes.
BRITISH PROTEST
Chinese withdrew from Taerhwan, attack. Unsuccessful sorties were DANGEROUS SITUATION north-east of Buihsien, on Friday, made yesterday by the "Japanese, LONDON, May 6 (Benter)but inficted heavy casualties upon The town is isolated London does not attempt to the Japanese at their new post- SIGNS OF ABATEMENT belittle the dangers of the tions at Chiangchiaho, north-east The battle in the suburban di situation around Dansig terri- of Taerhwan The Japanese also śricts of Nanchang is showing no tory, says the "Daily Tela- suffered heavy losses in a battle sign of, abatement. One hundred graph." but British circles note near Biho, east of Bulhalen, yes- remnant Japanese troops lingering that the wisdom of precipitat- terday...
at Shihchalkal have been cleared ing a Baropean war on thir The Chinese troops on the on. flimsy pretext is now the sub- |Hankow-Ichang, highway and the ject of discussion between- Kingshan-Chungslang highway Germany and Italy
have established contact.
[^\\NORTH" HONAN BATTLE LOYANG, May 7 (Central)
.
The Japanese in the vicinity of | Hellungkwan, north-west of Linfen, are reported to have used gas shelly during an engagement with Chinese units there, on Tuesday.
EVERY PRECAUTION There is reason to bellare that Italian Induence is directed to Three hundred casualties were, However, they were defeated by persuading Hitler that negotiation inflicted on the Japanese during a the Chinese and retreated towards
bitter night in the villages near Hellungkwan,"
A. Shanghai message states that would be more prudent. q classes 1927, 1928 and 1929. This details of the bombing of the While every precaution is being Po Al, north Honan town, on Fri-IN WEST SHANSI demobilization which is the first British Consulate-General' at taken to meet all eventuälittles or day. Quantities of Japanese mill- order of this kind after the Chungking have been forwarded sudden developments, the belief is tary supplies were captured by have been staging a series of raids In west Jhansi, the Chinese termination of the Spanish civil to the British Ambassador in current in well-informed quarters, the Chinese captu war is to begin to-day and is to Tokyo, Bir Robert Craigle, who it the correspondent adds, that a TANGIBLE RESULTS. be Anished by Sunday next is learned, is lodging a firm pro-violent solution is unlikely to be (T.0.);
test.
sought immediately
on the Japanese between Chung-
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Dispute
LONDON, MAY 7 (REUTER)- MESSAGES FROM PARIS ASSERT THE VATICAN IS TO MAKE GREAT EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN PEACE IN EUROPE, A report states that the French Foreign Minister reported to the Council of Ministers to this effect and yes terday M. Bomriet was visited by the Papal Nuncio of Paris,
This, together with the visit to Herr Hitler of the Papal Nuncio of Berlin, is taken as confirmation of these reports.
It is expected that the Pope will broadcast to the Eucharistic Com gress to be held f Algiers, to-mor-
row.
DIPLOMATIC ACTION PARIS, May 7 (Reuter) Follow ing Bonnet's report to the Council of Ministers, it is indicat ed here that the Pope has taken.
CHUNGKING, May 6 (Central) losses upon the enemy. During an number of Japanese and seized diplomatile action to assist in the
yang and Lighth, iniicting heavy Chungyang, they killed a large Military reports indicate that offensive on a blockhouse near quantities of war supplies.
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