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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1939.
Memorial Service
JAPANESE MINISTERS UPHOLD MILITARISTS' ACTION IN TIENTSIN
Britain Asked To Adopt "Cautious Attitude," Mr. Arita Tells The Cabinet
TOKYO, JUNE 16 (REUTER) IT IS UNDERSTOOD
THAT THE JAPANESE CABINET HAVE DECIDED TO UPHOLD THE ACTION TAKEN BY THE MIL- ITARISTS IN TIENTSIN and have also agreed that they should “go ahead with the Government's fixed policy" in the matter.
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The decision was reached after the Ministers heard a report from the War Minister, Gen. Itagaki, who said that the authorities on the spot had taken all appropriate measures" with caution, but firm deter- mination."
Mr. H. Arita, Foreign Minister of Japan, told the
PARADE
CALLED
OFF!
TOKYO, June 16 (Reuter)----- The attempt by Japanese "reservists" and others to parade through the British Concession In Tientsin has been called off on the advice) of the Japanese military au thorities there.
It was planned to march to the Concession cemetery con- taining the graves of Japan-"] ese killed in the Boxer rising.
Cabinet that Britain had expressed regrets over the CENSUS OF
action in Tientsin and "sought elucidation" of the proclamation issued by the military commander, an- nouncing the blockade.
Restrictive Measures Tightened
Few Chinese Permitted To Enter
TIENTSIN, June 16 (Reuter) -The Japanese have tighten- ed their restrictive measures to-day. Very few Chinese are permitted to enter or leave the blockaded areas and batches of labourers were re- fured admission to the Con- cessions and were Instead driven off in lorries by the Japanese reportedly for work elsewhere.
He replied that "no offelal re- port was received from the au- thorities in Tientsin but.the affair should be settled locally" and asked the British Government to "adopt a cautious attitude and to | co-operate with Japan in securing
pute."
a fundamental solution of the dis-
FOREIGNERS
IN PEITAHO
JAPANESE MAY.
TAKE ACTION
SHANGHAI, June 16 (Reuter) -It is learned that the Jap- "Japan's terms for calling off the anese authorities have order- blockade are indicated in a Tien-ed that a census be made of isin message to the Domel News all foreigners in Peltaho, Agency, namely:—
famous
suminer -resort- In
cessión.
1. Joint Anglo-Japanese investi-North China gations into the control of anti- Peitaho is at present full of Japanese terrorism in the Con-holiday-makers avoiding the in- tense heat in other parts. of China and augmented by the influx of women and children who fled thither just before the outbreak of the blockade of the British Con- cession in Tientsin.
2. Cessation of Britain's "econo- mic interference" in North China.
3. Surrender of $50,000,000 aliver held by the Chinese banks in the Concession.
The authorities on the spot are said to be determined to continue the blockade until the terms are. "accepted and carried out."
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MAYELL RELEASED
TIENTSIN, June, 18(Reuter) Mr. Eric Mayell, survivor of the U.9.8. Panay, who was arrested by
the Japanese for taking photo- Early this morning the sleep of graphs at the International Bridge, British residents was shattered by has been released.
an outburst of Bring in the Jap- anese controlled area "near the barricade. closing the Race Courge Road entrance to the Concession.
Excitement ran high and was intensified when it was learned that two Chinese had been shot after they had been caught hand-
H.K.-Built
Junks Sinks
ing baskets of vegetables across In Red Sea
the barricade, as "a lesson to others."
AGITATORS BUSY Agitators are still very busy, in the Japanese-controlled area; stir- ring up anti-British and anti- "foreign" feeling.“
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PORT SAID, June 16 (Ren- ter)-The Chinese Junk Panjin, sailing fom Hongkong to the New York World's Fair, sank in the Red Sex while in the tow of a Greek Steamer.
It is rumoured, though it cannot be confirmed, that the Japanese are contemplating" some form of action against the British there..
The question of dispatch of a British destroyer to Peltaho is at present under consideration.
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THOUSANDS SHRIEK FAREWELLS AS EMPRESS LEAVES HALIFAX
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337,000,000
CRAMPING
Peace Bloc OUR STYLE"
Mussolini has spoken arrogantly
of 150,000,000 people stretching from the Baltic to the Indian Ocean. These are the myriads of the Axis.
IN EUROPE
SAFE AND BOLD ONLY WAY- LONDON, June 16 (Reuter) "Birmingham Post,"
But what of the Peace Front, The
Visit Has Inspired A Deeper Sense Of Unity:*
Premier's Statement
LONDON, JUNE 16 (REUTER)—REUTER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN WRITES THAT. THE LINER, WITH THE KING AND QUEEN AND ROYAL SUTTE ON BOARD, left Cana- dian waters early to-day homeward bound, via Newfound. land, with a prospect of fair weather.
The King telegraphed his thanks to the Canadian destroyers Skeena and Saquenay which escorted the CP.S. liner to the three-mile limit.
One hundred and fifty thousand people shrieked färewella" as the liner left the docks at Halifax while in the breakwater, a choir of 3,000 voices sang across to Their Majesties" the song. "Will ye no come back again."..
One of the last telegrams re- ceived by Their Majesties was from Brigadier Foster, Dominion. Commander of the Canadian Legion, telling them that the visit had "inspired in us a deeper sense of unity of the peoples of the British Empire.”....."
POWER AND GOODWILL HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, June 16 (Reuter) The Prime Minister of Canads Mr. Mackenzie "King. told reporters that Their Majesties the King and Queen had shown what power and goodwill can ac complish in community, nation and international affairs.
"We all had the opportunity to see the part played by the Crown in the affairs of British communities. In Their Majes». ties we have seen two young people hold the unique position. of embodying the ideals of home, family and State which respond to those things of our' own make-up, and which we cherish and hope to see sür vive," said the Premier,
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THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS
The fall Hat of the King's Birthday Honours has arrived Hongkong. This may be neen at the offices of the
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WORLD NEWS IN CABLES
Labour Minister
Falls To Death
STDNEY, June 16 (Reuter)-MY," H. M. Hawkins, the "New Bouth. Wales Minister for Labour and In- dustry was killed when he tell from the seventh floor of a city building in Sydney to day. PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS
NAIROBI June 16 (Reuter) Kenya is suffering a serious pla- gua of locusts The Agricultural: Department has announced that the infestation is so great that it Mr. William Aberhart, Prime la impossible to destroy the eggs, cramping our style" in Eu-to the press declared that the the areas, without enormous ex- rope the "only justification for Royal visit had awakened nation- penditure, the Prime Minister's caution al spirit in Canada. in the face of indignities and
NOT ALTOGETHER the Fowers united in their deter-suggesting the possibility of Minister of Alberta, in a statement so extensive and inaccessible, aze
SATISFACTORY MOSCOW, June 16 (Reuter)-M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Commis- sar, again conferred with the Bri tish and French Ambassadors and Mr. William Strang, the Foreign Office expert, this morning after a conversation lasting three hours yesterday.
Authoritative circles describe the Anglo-French "proposals as not altogether satisfactory.
The Estonian State President has called a special meeting of the State Council for June 21 in
order to ratify the Non-Agression Several vialted laundries in the German Concession
The crew of three Britons, two Pact dgned with Germany on catering for foreigners, abused the Americans and a Dane, were all June 7-CT. 03.
who were
ved. The British master, J,
on.
owners and workers and scattered Peterson, stated that the junk was the washed, clothing. The food built in Hongkong where she left situation remains critical, Some vegetables and milk were brought
December 31, 1938, for New in during the night, but was not York, via Cape of Good Hope. sufficient to meet the needs of the The Panjin encountered" "a residents. Britons are smarting cyclone north of Mauritius and under the indignities generally was driven back to the Seychelles and are not venturing outside the Islands for repairs. She finally Concession.
sprang a leak in the Red Bea
United States Cannot Be Indifferent To Outcome
LONDON, June 16 (Reuter) necessity, materially and morally The Parts and New York. press ex- Press, considerable concern
Gituation, in Tientsin.
over
The "New York Times" and the "New York Herald-Tribune" both are convinced that the United
he burden of Faria comment is States, cannot be indifferent to the shown in such passages as:
outcome.
"La Justice Japan's coup de New York Times" declares that force will precipitate the three- the position of the United States power pact. The warning in Tenis in no way comparable to that of tain will be understood both in Britain and France, and in the London and Moscow nor will the presen controversy her polley
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PAGE 2-Macao race meeting. Baseball programme. Tennis League
PAGE 3-Radio programmes.
The Services.
PAGE 5-Entertainments. Pa
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PAGE 6, Bruilant sumninier wedding, Menu London bazaar. Newsettes. New Restaurant
PAGE 7--Applications granted by Licensing Board HK Emergency Refugee Council's scope of work to bo widened. Dragon boat festival, PAGE 8.-Leading article: To- dustrial co-operatives, Hello and goodbyer PAGE
Catholic Notes. Church news and announce-
United States be unconcerned, cannot be co-ordinated with theirs,
"L'Ordre":"It can hardly be but the ominous doubted that the Japanese initio events in two com
eldence of
tive was decided jointly by Berlin
alarm to
Rome and Tokyo. Henceforward and the pact with Bosses is an absolute
mant Stater
and co
Volunteer Corps or War enters economic
Birian
mination to resist aggression? ·
Here are their number: Great Britain France
Poland
-Rumania
Turkey Greece Portugal Russia
Total A
ampire, 455,000,000.
45,000,000 42,000,000
33,000,000
SHOT DEAD ́OUTSIDE HOME injustices which Palmerston, AS UNIFYING INFLUENCE
JOHANNESBURG, June 16 Salisbury, Joseph Chamber- Statements from the Premiers of (Reuter) Mr. Charles Harris, Be-- 18,000,000 lain or Edward Grey would Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Prince cretary of the Mine Workers! have resented and resisted Edward Lale and British Columbia, Union, was shot dead outside his actively asks is it not possi-of the visit, similarly the editorials of the Union has received a tele- all stressed the unifying influence home. The wife of the President 1,000,000 ble, all the same, that the safe in the pret similarly
way and bold way is to-day
phone message stating that her the wise way and to-morrow, bertan," after eulogising the King
For instance, the "Calgary Al-husband will be the next victim." 12 more favourable con-remarks, "It was for that great
SURVEY FLIGHT
16,000,000- 6,000,000
170,000,000 337,000,000
And there
those of the rest of the British only way.
To these figures might be added ditions, we may find it the ness that the walls in the terraces SEYCHELLES, June 16 (Router)— of religions and nations fell and The Australian Lying boat Guba - would put Japan in a very poor oneness of the Canadian people route between Australia and Eng- Economic and financial pressure their very stones proclaimed the which is on a survey night on the state to carry on her China in- with the American neighbours land via the Indian Ocean arrive eldent, the paper adds,
with each other.
a Seychelles Isländ
are the friendly 140,000,000 of the United States of America. (Even ing Standard: May 23),"
¡DEFENCE MINISTER'S ASSURING STATEMENT IN LORDS
Government's Measures To Expedite Supply Of Munitions And Armaments
LONDON, JUNE 16 (REUTER)I BELIEVE THERE NEVER HAS BEEN A TIME WHEN OUR PLANS FOR WAR HAVE BEEN SO CAREFULLY LAID OF GIVEN SO MUCH THOUGHT," declared Lord Chatfield, Minister for Co-Ordina tion of Defence, in a reassuring statement in the House of Lords on Government measures to expedite the supply of munitions and armaments
Continuing, he said: "We are well
to achieve our aim of being.
more ready for war in peace than we have even been.
"By the energy and devotion of our scientifle staff we have harnessed science In such a manner that the risks and anxieties of ten or twenty years ago, in many respects are no longer of the same degree
"In many Instances defence is increasing numbers, so disposed as rapidly catching up attack: we to be able to intercept the enemy have the men we need, and they at the earliest possible moment, are of a higher average physique The whole country has been re- and intelligence than ever before "In dur History. This human far-
tor the main asset because,
are to be tested, it is that
cide our future.
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