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亲拾捌佰费仟伍萬弍第
LANDING OF BRITISH BLUEJACKETS ON
KULANGSU NOW STRONGLY CONSIDERED
SUPPLEMENTARY Demands Would Reduce Council To
Japanese Machine, If Granted
ESTIMATES FOR
EMERGENCY
LONDON, May 16(Renter) --
Supplementary estimates totalling CANADIAN
£3,500,000 for the purchase of merchant ships' and reserve farm equipment for emergency will be submitted to Parliament.
In the buying of ships £2.000.- 000 will be spent wille £100,000 will be for upkeep: the reserve,
CABINET
PREPARE
OTTAWA... May 18
(Reuter) -
farm equipment w be allotted The Prime Minister of Canada.
£1,500,000.
Mr. Mackenzie King, and all, the
V2 and
The Board of Trade will be au- members of the Cabinet are leav thorized to buy and sell ships ing Ottawa to-day for Quebec to while the Ministry of agriculture welcome King George will place orders for machinery to Queen Elizabeth when they arrive to-morrow. The provisional care- monies at Quebec will be carried lout as originally planned except
that they will be two days late.
develop the land.
H.K, ROTARY CLUB
Amusing Address By Sir Henry Pollock
Their Majesties wil) arrive at Ottawa at 11 am. on Friday and there will be a próccasion to Government House and a visit to the House of Parlia- mant.
London Awaiting Report From Sir Percy Noble
LONDON, MAY 16" (REUTER)—THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE JAPANESE· DEMANDS ON KULANG- SU HAS BEEN RECEIVED IN LONDON AND IS SUB- STANTIALLY AS PUBLISHED. It is plain that the demands would reduce the Kulangsu Council to a Japanese machine if they were granted.
Reuter understands that the Chairman of the Kulangsu Coune!! is expected to reply to the Japanese that he must refer their demands to the Treaty Powers.
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Japan will then be informed that Great Britain cannot condone forcible interference in "Kulangsu's administration.
The question of landing British | bluejackets on Kulangsu, which 1s; being strongly pressed privately on the Government by influential;
COUNT CIANO
BERLIN, May 16 (Reuter)
Ciano, Italian Foreign
Members of the Rotary Club of Hongkong were kept entertained at
On Saturday there will be the members of the House of Com-
in the mons, as a practical demonstra-Count the Club's weekly luncheon, held trooping of the colours In the Roof Garden of the Hong-morning and then the Queen wilton of Britain's close interestin Minister, arrives here on Sunday military an lay the foundation stone of the the crisis, is now being considered, and the Italo-German kong Hotel yesterday, by
The decision may await a report treaty will probably be signed on amusing series of "More Legal new Supreme Court.
from Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Monday, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, who arrived at Amoy to- day in HMS, Birmingham.
Anecdotes," delivered by the Hon.; Sir Henry Pollock, K, C,
Major R. D. Walker, M C, who presided, announced that election o! officers of the Club,' for: the
year will take place at a meeting
In the afternoon, the King and Queen will attend 'a garden party and in the oven- ing there will be a Parlimen- tary dinner.
On Sunday, the King will im
to be held on May 30. He added Vell, the National Memorial,
that he had received a letter from On Monday Their Majesties will Professor Gerrard in which the proceed to Kingston, Ontario. It latter stated that while on the was originally planned that they way Home he and Dr. Li Shin-stay' for a day, in the town but fan had been compelled to "put now will drive through the city service before self" and had only.
successfully carried out an opera- tion on board ship.
JEWS THREATEN - VIOLENCE
It is pointed out in London, that,
HMS. Birmingham and with HMS. Scout now at Amoy. Ad-
miral Noble has ample, men forvan
effective landing party.
It is not improbable that the Government will request Sir Percy Noble to remain at Amoy for some days.
日装拾月伍年狖拾叁佰千營業
BRITAIN'S
SUPREME
GESTURE
NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuter)-Welcoming the King and Queen of Eng- land to the American continent and next month- to the United States, theNew York Herald- Triburie" writes that the Royal visit registers a vast and slow change
in
the importance of America in the mind of Western Europe and also a long and slow change in the functions of British royalty.
"The visit," says the paper, "is more than a. mere ceremonial pageant, The King would not come if he did not feel that by so doing he would promote the ties of good- will, common interest and friendly feeling between the Empire and the peoples of America.
"In sending her King, Great Britain makes the supreme gesture. of re- gard for fellowship which the Americans will not fail to understand and appreciate."
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CHIANG'S CLARION CALL TO AVENGE
Colonial
Activity
In Vienna
VIENNA, 'May 16 (Reutur)- Under the slogan, "Heraus
mat unseren koloülen” (fork out our colonies), three days of intense colonial activity began here with the meeting of the Relch Colonial Con-
press.
Thirty-thousand people are participating, including many former colonial governors and administrators and contingents from overseas.
The feature
of
to-morrow's
| programme, is the celebration of the golden Jubilee of the colonial troops of German East and Ger- man South-West Africa.
MASSACRE
CHUNGKING, May 16 (Cen- tral)-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has issued a clarion call to the nation to avenge the bloody orgy of the inten- sified Japanese air massacres.
The Generalissimo revealed that in the first two weeks of
the month, the Japanese air force has conducted no less than fifty wanton raids on congested residential districts of Chinese cities.
Discounting. Japanese claims that their air force confine its activities on military estabilah- ments, Generalissimo Chiang said that the objective of the Japanese mass bombing is threefold:-
First, to demora Use Chinese people and their spirit of resistance;
the
Second, to reduce Chinese productive capacity; and
Third, to disturb Chinese so- cial peace and order in the rear.
To-day the streets of Vienna are full of men, of 50 years and over. wearing the once familiar sacre as atrocity unprecedented in Describing the Japanese mas- khak! and enormous pinned-up the annals of mankind. General- sombreros of the former colonial issimo Chiang pointed out that all troops, and, as a background these heinous crimes have come to the decorations in front of the Rathaus, where the Congress is equaniminity, stiffened by almost
naught
Chinese calm and | meeting, there is
two years hardships of the war, blank map of Africa.
refused to be.disturbed...
an
enormous
MIDDLESEX REGT. CELEBRATE
BRITISH REPLY TO LATEST
Yesterday the Foreign Secretary, SOVIET NOTE
Lord Halifax, and the Under- LONDON, May 16 (Reuter) It Visiting Rotarians welcomed
Secretary for Foreign Azairs. Mr.is understood that the British yesterday were:-Messrs, B. K. Yap
R. A.. Butler, discussed Kulangsu | Government's reply to the latest Singapore), Dr. J.
at length. M. Henry
Soviet Note will probably be sent (Canton), E Shim (Canton), B.
Reuter learns that no doubt to Moscow before the meeting of Matsumoto (Dairen), H. M. Van
JERUSALEM, May 16 (Reuter)Great Britain will firmly resist the the League Council at Geneva. Der Schalk (Canton) and P. Deitz Notices in Hebrew are posted in Japanese demands and it is con- The Russian proposals are being (Shanghai) Guests were Messrs. Jerusalem declaring threats of dently felt that the United carefully examined in London. J. Ralston, G. Buchanan, W. M. Jewish violence if the promised States, will take the samé stand.
SOVIET AT LEAGUE Brown, C. P. Wong and D. Palestine White Paper is unsatis- TEST FOR DEMOCRACIES McCallum, all of Hongkong.
GENEVA, May 18 (Reuter)-It is factory. If the Jewish hopes are The newspapers continued to re-uriderstood that M. Molotor, the Sir Henry Pollock, text of whose disappointed the sword will be un-port fully the developments at Soviet Foreign Commisser, * has speech: 18 published on Page 8, was sheathed.
Kulangsu. thanked by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, However, the "Palestine Post"
appointed M. Ivan Malzky, Soviet The "Manchester Guardian," Ambassador to Britain. First Magistrate, Hongkong, on he- rejects the suggestion of violent emphasizing that the status of sent the
to repre- half of the Club for his address.
Soviet at the League methods.
Kulangsu is exactly the same as meeting. It had been expected that of the International Settle- that the Soviet Vice-Commissar ment in Shanghal, says, "The Ja-for Foreign Affairs, M. Potemkin. panese occupation and the far- would be selected so that he could reaching Japanese demands are, have discussions with Lord Halifax therefore, a test for British, and M. Bonnet. French and American policy.
Crew Of Haitan Tell Of Swatow Bombing: Boat People Fired On
Members of the crew of the British steamer Hai- tan, Interviewed yesterday by a "Dally Press" repre- sentative, gave several interesting details of the recent air raids on the northern Kwangtung port.
It appears that Swatow, with a populatiori in normal times of more than 100,000, has now only be- tween 20,000 and 30,000 civilian inhabitants, the ma- jority of the townsfolk having taken, the double hint of the Chinese Government and the intensified rald- ing activity of Japanese bombing, planes that evacua- tion was desirable.
While the Haltan lay in Swatow harbour last Sunday morning. three Japanese planes appeared from the direction of Masoo at the early hour of eight o'clock. There was concerted rush by many of the waterfront folk for the apparent safety of the channel between Swatow city, and Klak chou,
swooped to a lower altitude and made as though to raze the harbour with machine-run- Art. At least two bombs were dropped in the harbour, and the refugees from land were subjected also to, no "ordinary baptism
machine-run, bullets.
of
The invaders themselves
Crewamen of the Haitan give as suffered a rude shock in re- their estimate the figures of severe taliation, not so rude perhaps al hundred persons in about, 100 boats who had sought the safety as unexpected, when water-
"If the great democracies show any weakness the Ja- panese will almost certainly apply the same methods in Shanghai. Since that will Inevitably cause a "grave crisis it is better to take a firm stand in Kulangiu.
"For this reason it is good to) hear that both Britain and America have protested against: the Japanese action and have sent their Commanders-in-Chief of their China Stations to Amoy,
"In this, as in all Far Eastern questions, the best hope ites in the Arm united action of Britain and "America,"
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RUBBER QUOTA LONDON, May 18 (Reuter)-The International. Rubber Committee has fixed the quota for the third quarter at 55 per cent. The next meeting will be held on July 25.
ALBUHERA BATTLE
Full Day Observed At Nanking Barracks
TROPHIES PRESENTED
THE ANNIVERSARY WAS CELEBRATED LOCAL- .LY YESTERDAY BY THE 1ST BATTALION, THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, OF THE BATTLE OF AL- BUHERA. It was at Albuhera, Spain, 128 years ago, that the Middlesex Regiment, then known as the 57th Foot Regiment, earned the proud name "The Die- Hards."
In the Battle of Albuhera, fought on May 15, 1811, in the Peninsular War, against the armies of Napoleon Buonoparte, the 57th Foot lost 23 Officers and 405 Other Ranks of a total strength of 647.
as
The Generalissimo revealed that through the strenuous efforts of the various classes of government, measures are being completed against enemy air bombardment. In fature, not only continuous Japanese air raids will hold no horror for the people, but they will be made us wasteful as could be to the Japanese themselves.
IMPORTANT POINTS **Generalissime Chiang pro- ceeded to stress three import- ant points which must be ob served by the people to coun teract the Japanese aims.
(1) That unless the Chinese people strengthen their mili tary force and wage the war to, the bitter end; they will be doomed to annihila- tion by the Japanese.
(2) The importance of the decentralization of urban population and the develop- ment of "rural productive economy must be clearly re- cognized.
(3) While decentralization 1s being strictly pushed,
The Regiment formed part of Among the recipients were the urban and rural organization General Houghton's 2nd Brigade, HQ. Coy, winners of the inter-must be strengthened. less than 1.000 in all, that was company tug-of-war cup; the Bat- The Generalissimo reiterated his engaged as part of the force led talion 2nd XI soccer team, run-conviction in the final prevalence by Marshal Beresford in the seige ners-up in the second division of the Chinese 'cause and the col- of the fortress of Badajon.
lapse of the Japanese adventure.
Marshal Beresford, hearing of the arrival of a strong French re- lieving force, decided to give bat- tle. The encounter resulted in a decisive British victory, success being largely attributable to the gallant stand made in the key of
GUIDE TO THE NEWS the position by the 2nd Brigade
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PAGE 2-Basketball League final replay. Valley golf. Davis Cuppers on view. U. & Baseball: Derby call-over. PAGE 3 Radio programmes. London Gazette. The Ser- vices.
PAGE 5.-Olnemas. Crossword. puzzle. Diary of local events. PAGE 6,-H. K fashion parade.
Negsettes.
PAGE 7-Fashionable gather- ing at Macao races. New cabaret in Colony. Mainten- ance "summons. Armg found in hat stand. Maxmum fine imposed.
FAGE B-Leading article: New Japanese Threat. Rotary Club timn speech, PAGES 11 and 12-Finance
of the harbour. A majority of front anti-aircraft batteries, testify to having seen at least these boats rowed for the Haitan manned by the Swatow Water one man and a child evident and commerce. and other British and foreign ves-Police, opened fire on them.
sals and from quite a few of the The planes were forced to takey hit by machine-gun bullets. boats people sought to come on to higher altitudes, and both sea
HMS. Thracian, which was board these foreign merchantmen; and, land" were afforded some lying near by the Haltan, sent much-desired "zeller. Quite a few out a boat which picked up of the people in the boats mad, one man out of the water who however; by this time jumped had a bullet through his overboard, several being drowned. shoulder, and a young woman The crew of the Haltan who was wounded in the hip..
RUDE SURPRISE The boat people, and their passengers suffered a rüde surprise, however, when the invading Japanese
planes
PAGE 13. Changsha resurrect-
edFinancial news PAGES 14 and 15-Shipping
news and directory, PAGE 16Chinese Industrial Co-operatives. Reunion at St. Stephen's Girls' College. VDMA annual meeting.
against a column more than four times their number...
- In this stand the 57th took a worthy part and no Regiment suffered more heavily. The Reg!- ment was led by Colonel Inglis who, as he lay in front of his men, severely wounded, exhorted them |----"Die hard, 57th, Die Hard.”
DAY'S PROGRAMME The programme of Albuhera Day for the 1st Battalion, The Middle- sex Regiment, at Nanking Bar- racks yesterday, started with Re-' vellléan hour later than usual. Men who had been confined to
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Japanese Lose 13,800 On North Hupeh Front During Week's Battles
CHUNGKING, MAY 16 (CENTRAL)—AN OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN OF THE MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMIS- SION, REVIEWING THE WAR SITUATION on all fronts during the week ending May 14, claimed that 13,800 Japanese troops were slain in north Hupeh alone by Chinese forces.
The hilly terrain of the front proved ideal for the mobile operations of the Chinese who enticed unit after unit of Japanese forces into untenable positions and wiped them out.
The spokesman said that of the the west outskirts of Nanchang were recaptured by Chinese forcesk -Fighting-on-the Kwangtung "front in the last week was featured by lightning Chinese raids on the outskirts of Can- ton and the Japanese at Kong- moon and Sanwuf, when heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy. May 16/
Barracks were remitted the un total, 2,000 Japanese were killed at expired portion of their Confine-Yingkiatlen and Tumen, 1,500 at ment by the Commanding Oncer. Liuklaho. 3,000 at Chingtalchen, In the morning an inter-mess 1,000 at Liangkfashan, and 2,000 at alx-a-side hockey tournament was Wanklashan. Large quantities of held, the Privates defeating the supplies left on the field were Bergeants in the final, after have seized by the Chinese. |ing defeated, the Corporale in the The spokesman, said daring- ac- preliminary round, when the Ser- tivities of the guerillas have geants defeated the Officers.·** brought them to within striking The Sergeants were victorious distance of the outskirts of Wuhan in the annual tug-of-war encoun during the past week ter with the Officers, whom they defeated in three pulls. Presenta tions of sporting trophies by the Omacer Commanding, Lt. Col. L. A Newnham, M.C., followed.
The Japanese forces in south Honan met successive reverses at Tangho and Binyeh during the NANCHANG CORDON week Both these towns were re On the Nanchang front, the captured by Chinese forces after Chinese cordon on Nanchang was momentary fall. The enemy lost not relaxed. Tingshan and Ying- 1,000 men at Binych, and over 800 klashan, two strategic points on men at Tangho."