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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1939.
日陸拾月华政拾卖佰款千登美
JAPANESE DECIDE ON
DECIDE ON "ANOTHER POWERFUL STEP":
THREATS OF FURTHER MEASURES IN
TIENTSIN
Only Way To Settlement Is Wholesale H.K. DAILY PRESS NEW THEORY IN
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Revision Of Britain's
Britain's Policy China: Japan Will Not Be From Course By Economic
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Towards Deterred Reprisals
TOKYO, JUNE 15 (REUTER)-THREATS OF FURTHER MEASURES AGAINST THE BRITISH CONCESSION IN TIENTSIN ARE CONTAINED IN A JAPANESE NEWS AGENCY MESSAGE FROM THAT CITY.
The message says that the Japanese authorities in Tientsin have already decided on "another powerful step" if the present move fails in its object.
The message further states that the only way to a settlement of the Tien-
tsin affair is through the wholesale revision of British policy towards China, and not local negotiation.
Japanese Tanks On Border
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It is indicated that the view of the Japanese in Tientsin is that the time has passed for a settle. ment of Individual questions piecemeal and only a fundamental solution of the whole question of foreign concessions in China will satisfy them.
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TRAGEDY IN
INDUS
CAMPBELL'STM DEATH
Police Of Opinion
That Man Fell
Police are now of the belief that the death of Mr, J. BL Campbell, whose body found outside the Trocadero Hotel, Peking Road, on Sun- day morning, was due to a fall from an upper storey, bearing. ont a very general opinion re- ported exclusively in the "Hongkong Daily Press" Tuesday. Yesterday aftemoon the Fire
SIMLA, June 15 (Reuter)- Major Ian Galbraith, British political agent at Gligit, and his wife, were drowned in the Brigade was called in to assist in Indus yesterday. Their bodies the investigations. A fire appli- have hitherto not been found ance" from the Terminus Station PARIS, June 15 (Reuter) and their boat, which cap-was sent to the scene where the Well-informed Japanese quarters Informal exchange of views sized, has also not been re-body was discovered, and use was TIENTSIN, Jane 15 (Reuter)
the British in Tokyo declare that Japan wil between
and covered,
made of the ladder to take various -----According to a Japanese never be deterred from aer, course French Governments over the Major and Mrs. Galbraith detailed measurements in con- News Agency message from by economic reprisals, such as Tientsin situation took place were due for furlough on July which is being pursued
nexion with a course of inquiry Tientsin three Japanese tanks Britain is reported to be consider-this morning.
1. Their two sons and baby appeared on the borders of ing. It is stated that these would It is pointed out that daughter, accompanied by the British Concession. certainly be a violation of the France considers. It essential nurses, are likely to be sent
Anglo-Japanese
Trade that The tanks were said to have
the closest contact to England by special plane. been brought up after the British troops had established a guard station only a few yards from one of the Japan-
existing
Agreement and that Japan will should be maintained be-
take prompt and efficient counter-
measures.
tween Britain, France and
the United States, as the
Baron Hiranuma, Prime Minister three Powers are the most!
ese search posts and trained of Japan is reported to be calling interested in the concessions
three machine-guns on the meeting of the Cabinet Coun- in China, holding that the Japanese sentries.
how the Japanese
JAPANESE NAVAL BASE
sellors on the events in China, best results can be obtained IN HAINAN
"At the same time it is re-
Mysterious bellicosity
1s News
and
15 "reported that the
by parallel action. meeting will discuss invoking the full provisions of the National
ment's price policy.
Agency describes the British Mobilization. Act and the Govern- cognized that the situation CONSTRUCTION WORK
action.
ANTI - BRITISH
HAND BILLS
in Tientsin is delicate and the matter is being left, largely in According to Rear-Adml. Kapa-the hands of the authorities zawa, Chief of the Publicity Bureau
of the Japanese Admiralty. the on the spot.
authorities are firmly
Japanese
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Hope is expressed in French' Multi-coloured handbills at-determined to
seek an amicable quarters that the matter tacking the British were dis-settlement of the Kulangsu - will be satisfactorily settled: tributed by police in the Jap-cident. anese-controlled
areas bor:
dering the British and French
Hocally.>
Concessions to-day. Passages, FOUR POSSIBLE MOTIVES
in the hand bills read:
"British merchants tak-
ing our lives by controlling monetary market":
"British Concession is hotbed of Kuomintang
and Communism.",
STRONG PROTEST
Japan Obedient To Instigation: Proposed Three-Power Pact
German Reply To The
here.
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BEING RUSHED From Our Own Correspondent.
CHUNGSHAN, Jane 15 Japanese binejackets, who have been idle on the China coast for months, are being sent to Hainan Island as re- Inforcements in view of the counter-attacks of "the Chinese forces. Without a big battla, many Japanese sailors in Hai- nan were killed in a month, Some of them are sent to Hai- nan Island to supervise the con- struction of the naval base, 'as the Japanese want to complete it in six months instead of one year.
Pactranspires that the main Jap-
PARIS, JUNE 15 (REUTER)—THE COINCIDENCE
of Japan's sudden move in Tientsin and Mr. William Strang's arrival in Moscow underlines press comments
"L'Epoque" commentator, M. Dekerillis, is "struck" by the coincidence and asks: “Can one suppose that Berlin and Rome, unable to obtain a promise from Japan for naval co-operation in the Mediterranean; did not put pressure on her at least to strike a blow in the East at a critical moment in European nego- tiation?"
The British Consul-General, Mr.
E. G. Jamieson, has: vigorously protested to the Japanese Consul General against the searching 01 British subjects entering and leaving the British and French Concessions, the Jap anese refusal to allow certain British subjects to leave the "Figaro" suggests that Japan) Concession and the boarding has four possible motives-threat and detention of the British to Britain designed to comcide ship Kai Tal. :
with Mr. Strang's Moscow visit. reply to the proposed three-
B. AND S. PREMISES Power pact which, however, does
CORDONED OFF
not concern Japan, obedience to German instigation, and, as a diversion from the China war,
The premises of the firm of Butterfield and Swire, Shanghal Humanite" ascribes the coin- comprising warehouses, offices and cidence to a theory and declares docks were cordoned off yesterday that, acting for, the Axis powers, morning by Japanese troops.
Tokyo wants to prevent, by terror Neither the employees nor Jap and threats, realization of the anese civilians were allowed to peace front.
pass the sentries and to enter Mme. Taboula, writing the isolated area.
"L'Oeuvre," believes that the The Japanese authorities de- blockade need not be taken too clined to give any reason for the seriously provided Britain does not measures against Butterfeld and give way as it is only a trial wi Swire which is the second largest strength with a view of possible British concern in the Far East action in Shanghai -(Transocean). '
THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON LONDON: 15. ZAL
TT. ON NEW YORK: 281|·
From Our Own Correspondent'
London June 15,
REFUGEES POUR INTO POLAND WARSAW, Juns 15 (Renter Refugees from Czechoslovakia are pouring into Poland,
The Ger
London silver prices to-day were | man authorities have withdrawn down 1/18 as follows:- the Czech": police on the Pollsh time 14-June-15-froûtler as it is thought that they 19-15/16 19-7/8 have been a help to the Czech res
fugees to cross into Poland.
Epot
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PAGE 2-8#imming gala Favourites win at Ascot. US. baseball results. Women's golf championship.
PAGE 3-Women's interests.
Confide in Faith Prior. PAGE 5-Cinemas. CROSS-
word puzzle.
PAGE 6-Newssttes. A new
and "free" China, PAGE 7-Hingham extortion trial Unlawinl transmitting machinery. Not a rich re tugee.
PACE & Leading article: Tense Situation in Tientsin. PAGE 10 The Services, Radio programmes. Medical relief. work raport PAGES 11 AND 12-Finance
and commerce ** PAGE 18 Ching war news. Kwangtung military situa tion Spiritual training soldiers. PAGES 14 AND 58H
news and directory.
anese: reason (for occupying Hai- man Island is to convert it as naval base for use vis-a-vis Sin- gapore, so that in the event of a world war, Japan' may use the take as a bargaining counter with the democracies and totalitarian states
For the present, Japan is satis- fied merely with holding some of the coastal towns, which are being Tortifed against guerillas.⠀⠀ Al- | though bluejackets have no, use in.
It is learned that the China Airmotive Company, where deceased was employed, has received a cabled reply from the -late Mr. Campbell'i mother a St. Paul, Minnesota, requesting that the body be set back to the United States for burial
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LONDON, June 15 (T/Ocean)- Changes in the British Cabinet are forecast for the end of the pre- sent month by the "Yorkshire Post" to-day.
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MORE ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED
DAILY
Greater Demand For Meat
The increase in the Colony's population has caused a great- er demand for meat, among other food supplies, and "an average, of about 40 per cent.. móre animals *re being slaughtered dally in local abattulis.
The political-correspondent of the paper writes that Lord Runci- man and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Stanhope, will leave the Cabinet and that" the Government Chief Whip, Captain Margesson, will resign his post.
Inquiries made yesterday reveal Regarding the new appointments, that, at the Kennedy Town abat- the paper is not-in a position to toir, about 200 cattle are being make a definite statement but de- slaughtered each day, compared clares that Mr. Chamberlain is with about 130 at this time last The deceased's mother has also now deliberating whether to take year. The increase of 70 hand is expressed the desire that every-Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden,
men, such as Mr. Winston roughly over 50 per cent."when",
thing possible should be done to Ascertain the circumstances sur-
rounding her son's death and that
a complete and exact report of the findings be dispatched to America, Detective-Inspector.A. E Carey, Chief of the Yaumaul Detective Office, has now assumed charge of the investigations.
Into the Government.
Frity.
About 1,000 pigs are slaughtered daily, against about 750-last year, The increase here is about one- third.
(Kowloon)
сабез containing gold, Irk the Mataukok were shipped on board the Queen abattoir, about half of the Is- Mary on Wednesday night from land's quota or cattle and pigs are Cherbourg to the United States being killed dally, but the percen- The gold is to be stored in the tage of increase ance last year Federal Reserve Bank-(T.O.). has been about the same.........
NATIONWIDE BROADCAST BY DR. H. H. KUNG
Belief In Day When Japan Will Be Forced To Change National Policy
CHUNGKING, June 15 (Central) In a nationwide broadcast over the Cen- tral Broadcasting Station yesterday evening, Dr. E. H. Kung, President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, summed up the mutual military, diplo- matic and economic strength of Ching and Japan and confidently prophesied final victory for the former and collapse of the latter.
Judging from the international and domestic developments that followed the outbreak of the war almost two years ago, Dr. Kung believed that there will be-a day when Japan will be forced to change her national policy. Then China's cause. will prevail.
Dr. Kung referred to the vast improvement of China's fighting forces since July 7, 1937.
the China coast, too many of the SYMPATHY FOR
cannot be sent to Hainan Island
Series Differences
It is proposed to send some of
JEWISH
the landing parties to attack wa- GIRL REFUGEE -
At the very beginning of the war
in Bhàngha!.. he recalled, the "H.K, DAILY PRESS”
death ratio between the Chimese and the Japanese soldiers was 3 or 4 to 1. This ratio improved during the Hsuehow batties to 2 to 1 In the recent fighting in | chow, via the West River, às naval
north Hupeh where the Chinese LIVERPOOL, June 15 (Reuter) gained such signal successes, the units are useful in removing The sympathy booms and mines to the West Jewish refugees was demonstrated tually higher than the Chinese, expressed for number of Japanese dead was ac- River. Most of the sailors are by an incident at Edverpool in in this reversal of the ratio, Dr. Concentrated at Samshul and Bam which a 15-year-old girl refugee Kung said, is the whole story in Kok Chow or Triangle Zeland, but had no money to pay s. 6d. casa nutshell of the Chinese army's they have waited for many weekstoms duty on a sewing machine growing strength and the Japanese without launching the much
The porter seeing her plight, force's declining might heralded offensive.
said, "Wait a bly," and soon re- This delay is due to serious. difturned with the necessary money ferences between the Japanese which he had raised from fellow- Army and Navy, both of whom
porters want to claim laurels for their Work In Kwangtung the split began with the landing of Jap anese troops in Blas Bay last October leading to the dismilesat- Arst of Lieut. General Motoo, Furnasho and then Vice Admiral Kolchi Shiozawa.
The differences between the two services were seen in Canton where one service does not kognize passes issued by
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PICTURES
Pictures of the King's Birth- day Garden Party at Govern ment House and of the Races which have appeared in this paper can be obtained at the offices of the "Hongkong Dally Press Marina House, third. foor, and at Lazarus, China Building, at $1 for three coples.
hand activities to discredit the Diplomatically, Japan WAS plunged from her raised inter-
Chinese national dollar have not only failed to produce the hoped national pedestal when the for result but have actually under-
· League of "Nations condemned. mined her own currency Dr. -her as the “aEETERSOFAE Kung believed that with the re
The fact that the object of cent readjustment of the national Japan's present campaign in China dollar's exchange level, the last is not China alone but the entire means of Japan's ulterior financial. world is readily accepted; and it jugglery has now gone,
ls probably not too much to say Shady activities in the form of JERUSALEM June 15 (Reuter) that had there not been Chinese baseless rumours calculated to One Arab was killed and two resistance in the past two years, undermine Chinese unity bespeak
ded at Tel-avly when three Japan's insatiable appetite for nothing but the Japanese militar Jews attacked atr Arab hut. The aggression would have plunged the iste desperation, Dr. Kung con-
authorities HATE nned world into a second Great War. cluded The Japanese to re
GAINING GROUND Cognise that the Chinese Jewish constab
Now that international counsels know sistance is their on while twelve were juf Deuce have been steadily gain-vation and that they Homb
Kung believed that under one banner and one
salp, umal their final Birgoal become even more isolatedag
chlove Economically Japan under-Ching War New! On
daylight
Seople
on.