HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
WILL
BRITISH GUARANTEE TO POLAND WILL
IN CASE OF THREAT
BE CARRIED OUT IN TO HER INDEPENDENCE
Premier Reviews Danzig Situation In Commons
"We have guaranteed to give our assistance to Poland in case there is a clear threat to her indepen- dence, which she considers it vital to resist with all her national forces, and we are firmly resolved to carry out this undertaking," said Mr. Neville Cham- berlain, in the House of Commons yesterday, in the course of his eagerly awaited statement on the situa- tion in Danzig.
In Berlin, the Prime Minister's speech raised no comment, the opinion being that it contained nothing surprising or new, but in Poland the Premier's state- ment caused great satisfaction as defining Great Bri- tain's attitude clearly and firmly.
LONDON, July 11 (Reuter) Mr. Neville Chamberlain said: "I previously stated that His Majesty's Govern- ment was maintaining close contact with the Polish and French Governments on the question of Danzig.
has been suggested, be repre- sented as an act of aggression on her part.and if her action was supported by the other Powers they would have been accused of abetting her in the use of force.
the
"If
sequence of
event
POLITICAL LULL IN EUROPE?
HITLER TO REMAIN AT BERCHTESGADEN
BRITAIN'S STAND IN DANZIG
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within the meaning of the Anglo-Polish Pact, a threat to Poland's independence such as she would be justified in re- garding it of vital interest to resist with her national forces. To the ordinary Engish under- standing the answer was plain enough-transfer of "Danzig to The German Fuehrer is to re-the Reich by whatever means it might be brought about main at Berghof; near Berchtes- gaden, for some time, "without re-i
would be a threat, to · Polish turning to Berlin,
Independence and, therefore. catus (oederiz
BERLIN, July 11 (T/Ocëan)---- Gen...von Branchitsch, the Com-. |mander-in-Chief of the German Army, has gone on a several weeks | leave.
These signs are interpreted by Berlin political quarters to mean
"But purveyors of the legend of that the Reich Government does peradious Albion have been endea- not expect serious political com vouring to insinuate that the lack plications in Europe during the of a precise definition was a delt- berate manoeuvre by the British The reports published by the Government to provide themselves Polish papers that the Reichstag with a loophole for slipping out
│next weeks.
is
has been summoned in middle of
of their obligations. There July in order to hear an important evidence that the Nazis have been should, in fact, be such as it was statement to be made by the feeling their way to see whether "I have nothing at present to contemplated in this hypothesis. Fuehrer on Danzig, are declared, as they might not exploit th's sup- add to the information already members will realize that the issue ridiculous, by the Berlin officin
posed equivocation in order to given about the local situation, but could not be considered purely a circles.
Yet Another Stripping Incident
BRITON SUBJECTED. TO CLOSE SEARCH
TIENTSIN, July 11 (Renter)—A Briton, Mr. Ivor House, who had previously figured in two stripping incidents in Tlomtuiri, WAS sub- jected to a further indignity this morning when he tried to enter the British Concession.
Before allowing hìm to do so, the Japanese sentries inade him take off his shoes, stockings and trou- sers and searched him closely.
Four Britons who were accom- panying him were not molested.
BRITISH CONSULATE STONED
ANTI-BRITISH
I may, perhaps, usefully. review local matter involving the rights The German Fuehrer will prob-drive a wedge between Britain and DEMONSTRATIONS
the elements of this question as and liberties of the people of Dan-ably receive Herr Foerster, the they appear to His Majesty's
zig, which, incidentally, were in National Socialist Party Leader of Government
од Tuesday at the no way threatened, but would at Danzig, once raise graver issues affecting Obsersalzberg, for a report on the Polish national existence and in- Danzig situation. dependence,
1s
A German City Racially. Danzig almost wholly, a German city, but the prosperity of the inhabitants, de- pends to a very large extent upon Polish trade.. The Vistula is Po- land's only waterway to the Baltic and the port at its mouth, there- fore, is of vital strategic and economic importance to her.
"We have guaranteed to give our "assistance to Poland in case there is a clear threat to her independence, which she considers it vital to resist with all her national forces and we firmly resolved to carry out this undertaking.
"Another Power 'established in Danzig could, if it so de-
Two Conditions sired, block. Poland's access
"I have said that, while the pre- to the sea and so exert a mil-
sent settlement is neither basically itary and economic strangle
unjust or illogical. It may be hold upon her. "Those responsible for framing capable. of improvement. It may! the present statute of the Free be that in a clearer atmosphere City were fully conscious of these possible improvement could be dis- facts and did their best to make cussed. Indeed, Col. Beck. himself -provision accordingly. Moreover, said on May 5 that if the Reich, there is no question of any op pression of the German popula- tion in Danzig.
Liberty Of Citizens
was
conditions,
two guided by namely, peaceful intentions and peaceful methods of procedure, all conversations are possible.
"In his speech before the Reichs- "On the contrary, the adminis- tration of the Free City is in Ger-tag on April 28, Herr Hitler said
Poland.
On
"Henceforward they cannot have a shred of justlication for con- tinuing to harbour any such lu- sion. Having thus defined more precisely the scope of our obliga- "Fantastic"?
tion, Mr. Chamberlain went The reports spread by a French to reiterate the firm resolve of news agency asserting Generalls-this country to honour its under- simo Franco wili visit Herr
taking. Hitler at the Obersaltzberg are
"In short the Nazis have been in jometally described Berlin as "fantastic,” because no reason is
warned, once, and for all, that if Danz'g. a putsch in seen at present for such a discus- they stage alon, especially since the Italian under whatever guise, they will Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, is be throwing out a challenge which or va State visit to the peoples of Britain, France and at present
Poland will take up as one man". Spain:
The Berlin paper “Angriff”. reprints the Italian reports: that England plans the forti- ication of the Suez Canal, adding that such an English action is tantamount to provocation of Rome, in addi- tion being a violation of the Anglo-Italian agreement.
man hands and the only restric-/that if the Polish Government held from September 2 to 11, un- tions imposed on it are not of the wished to come to fresh contract kind to curtail the liberties of the tual arrangements governing re- lations with Germany, he could citizens.
This year's Party Day will be but welcome such an idea. He
two days longer than usually, 'In added that any future arrange-
order to give more time to the ment would have to be based on
absolutely clear obligation various items on the programme. equally binding on both parties.
Government
"The
present settlement, though it may be capable of Improvement, cannot, on itself, be regarded as basically, un- just or illogical. The main- tenance of its status quo has, In fact, been guaranteed by the German Chancellor up to 194€ by a Ten-Year Treaty, which he concluded with Mar- shal Pilsudski.
lead to a serious dispute.
an
His Majesty's realize that the recent develop- meals in the Free City have disturbed confidence and ren- dered it difficult at present to find an atmosphere in which reasonable counsels can pre- vali.
and
work
TRAITORS' WOES
at the
The "Daily Herald” says, “Mr. Chamberlain spoke clearly rES- terday. If Herr Hitler provokes "war over Danzig then he does
with his eyes open. The Prine Minister's statement covers the possibilty of ather direct, or indirect, aggression against Danzig. No distinction is drawn between them.”
IN TSINGTAO
Two Banks AlsoTM
Damaged
TSINGTAO, JULY 11 (REU-
TER) - JAPANESE - SPON-
CHINESE SORED
DEMON-
STRATORS STONED AND
THREW FIRE - CRACKERS BRITISH CONSU- AT THE
LATE GENERAL THIS
MORNING. CAUSING SOME DAMAGE.
in-
on
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PROGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVES IN CHINA
Rewi Alley, Chief Adviser, Describes Dynamic Growth
Interesting facts regarding the Chinese Industrial" Co-operatives were given by Mr. Rewi Alley, chief. technical adviser of the movement, when he spoke of the progress and expansion of the work during the last nine months at a reception at the Chinese Mer- chants' Club yesterday.
Miss Ida Pruitt, chairman of the . The industries were really start- Hongkong Promotion Committee, led by some crippled soldiers who presided, and those present in-had been sent to the area after cluded the Right Rev. Bishop being treated for their injuries They Ronald Hall, Mr. Shou J. Chen, Mr. during the Shanghai war, Edgar Snow, Mr. ip Lan-chpen started the first co-operative, a Mr. T. Kai Liang, Mdm. Wu Te- [chemical works,, and later they chen. Mrs. Li Shu-pui, Miss Alice went on to make tooth-brushes, Kwok, Miss Marion Dudley and Dr. towels, paper, tobacco, and to set and Mrs. Chan Han-seng.
up printing and tailoring shops
WAS
Mr. Alley, who was formerly in- and other trades and industries, dustrial adviser to the Chinese The soldiers had been reinforced Government and to the Shanghai |by the country people, and all wêre Municipal Council, said that it was now getting on very well in their a year since he left Shanghai for work.
*Each co-operative Hankow with the British Am- making a profit of about $2,000 a bassador.. Who
took him.
at month, and everything made went the request of Generalissimo into immediate sale, there being Chiang Kai-shek's Headquarters, to little necessity to look for a mar- various places to observe comdi- ket. tions and to help to organize co- operative industries.
1,000 Co-operatives
success.
No Failures
Government Aid
Through the co-operatives, proof the work done. ceeded Mr. Alley, the foundations were being laid for a people's movement which would help China
Those in charge of the work, sald
The "News-Chronicle" says, “The Prime Minister's statement on Danzig yesterday was as clear as The demonstrators also attack- carefully chosen words could make ed the premises "of the Hongkong it and, taken in conjunction with and Shanghai, Bank and the
A significant indication of the Lord Halifax's recent speech, tt Chartered Bank by smashing the
value of the co-operatives was the sets the seal on British policy a doors and windows."
In September, said Mr. Alley, the fact that there had not been one far as the Free City is concerned.
They distributed thousands of first co-operative was set up in single failure in the nine month In his review of factors in the
anti-British handbills and Jap-South Shens!, and the work had since the movement was founded. Danzig situation Mr. Chamberlain
anese troops who
the saw
since "Party Day of Peace"
progressed very
rapidly. Japanese bombings had caused showed a grasp of the essential cidents did not intervene.
There were now about 300 This year's National Socialist which he utterly lacked
.com certain stoppages, but in general. Party Day of Nuremberg is to be time of Munich."
The British Consular authori-operatives in the Northwest, and the work had gone soothly.
about 1000 throughout Unink.
Chinese students had been help- ties art viewing the matter very der the motto "Party Day of
seriously and
These centres were now employing tremendously in the organiza- reporting are
*There Peace."
the incident fully to London.
ing men and women who were pre-tion work, said Mr. Alley. viously rendered idle and desperate were certain dificulties in the In Taiyuan
by the war. There was a willing work of organizing, but conditions staff of organizers, engineers and were gradually improving. Mr. HINGTSI, July 11 (Central)—
trainers, who were doing excellent Alley mentioned the difficulty of The Japanese-sponsored anti-
work in promoting the co-opera-secting good accountants in coun- British movement in Taiyuan tive movement and making it a try districts and the problem of capital of Shensi, under Japanese
getting the people to make reports, cccupation, has been intensified,
A large number of anti-British placards and cartoons have been The "Daily Mail" says, "Britain put up in the streets. Under the now says that if Danzig is under-supervision of the puppet authori- to win the war and realise the Mr. Alley, had to be grateful for mined from within she will sup- ties parades have been held. objects of livelihood and depen-the help and encouragement ex- port her ally just as firmly as it e
dence when pesca caine,
tended by all sections" of people, direct attack were made 'on the
| both Chinese, and foreign?". In par- If War Stopped To-morrow Free City from without. In other
ticular, Mr. Alley mentioned the words, this country will" no longer
If the war stopped to-morrow, help given by the banks and the KING TO VISIT Japanese money can set up any be taken in by a fith -- column
sald Mr. Alley, China would still respective provincial governments. have to depend on Japan for goods, Dr. King, chairman of the number of traitorous news-sheets, technique which led to Austria,
"NAVAL COLLEGE but it cannot get them read or dis-Sudetenland, Bohemia and Blova-
especially in the cheaper types of Executive Yon and Adinister of kia by Inviting' Germany to come LONDON, July 11 (T/Ocean)-consumera' goods. But if. 30,000 Fince had given an assurance" tributed.
Wang Ching-wel has learned this in and save them from them-Old English customs will be re- small industrial units could be, set that he would help the Co-opera- vived at the visit to be paid by up in China, then the country tives in every possible way, and in painful truth from the experience selves." of his "centrel organ," the 'Chung
HM the King to the Royal Naval
would be in a position to adminis the past several months had done College in Greenwich, on Tuesday
ter to her own wants and be inde- great deal to promote the work. wa Jih Pao"! when its first num-
evening.
pendent of outside supplies.
By autumn next year, if thể Mr. Alley said he had just re-movement could be developed as turned from the southeast head-It should, Mr. Alley thought that quarters of the CIC, in Bouth the aim of having 30,000 small "co- Klings. There were at the pre-opemtive industries should be sent time, five headquarters in all realised. in the country."
Bishop Hall, who also spoke, zald operative movement, Mr. Alleynes was the only basis of hap- Illustrating the scope of the co-industry organized on co-operative mentioned that the southeast piness and peace. It was a better headquarters alone was in charge way of running industry, he said, of the work in no less than four provided that I was run by better
TROUBLES OF WANG'S SHANGHAI ORGAN
"Up to last March Germany was seen to have felt that while the
Poland's Calm position in Danzig might ultimate-
"Faced with this situation, the ly require revision, the question was neither urgent nor likely to Polish Government remain calm His Majesty's Government "But in March, when the Ger- hope that the Free City, with her ancient traditions, may "again man Government put forward an offer in the form of certain de- prove, as she has done before, that siderata, accompanied by a press different nationalities can campaign, the Polish Government together when their real interests
coincide. realized that they might at pre- serit be faced with a unilateral
"In the meanwhile, I trust all solution which they would have to concerned will declare and show ber appeared in Shanghai yester-
their determination not to allow day, any incidents in connexion with Danzig to assume such a character as might constitute a menace to the peace of Europe. (Cheera).
Berlin View
resist with all their forces,
Important Dates
the problems in which Germany new. h the opinion of official was interested,
"RIBBENTROP TAKES HOLIDAY
According to reliable Chinese re- ports, numerous newspaper sellers "They had before them the
were recruited by the puppet paper events which had taken place
to make its opening issue a success. BERLIN, July 11 (Reuter)- in Austria, Czechoslovakia and
Each man was given a thousand Herr von Ribbentrop. the Reich Mereiland. Accordingly they re-
coples, and, for distributing them. Foreign Minister, left Berlin yes fused to accept the German-point BERLIN, -July--11--(Reuter)--Mr.
terday on a holiday which he of view and themselves made sug- Chamberlin's statement contains the munificant sum of $30.
The newsboys took the money hopes, will last for several weeks." gestions for a possible solution of nothing surprising and nothing then. adjourned to
discuss the
He has been in poor health quarters here, where it is declared their bundles to a buyer of wrap- situation, As a result, they took
lately. that the speech does not change ping paper. They disposed of each the present situation.
for $5 and thus emerged from the A political spokesman, menting On Mr. Chamberlain's day's work.$35, the richer..
The circulation department of Danzig statement, declared that the powers which gave Danzig the the "Chung Hwa Jin Pao i look- "It has been freely stated in status of a Free City are now is for more bright ideas, Germany that it was His Majesty's endeavouring to make it an issue Government's guarantee which en-menacing peace.
"Certain defensive measures were taken by Poland on Mar. 23 and reply was sent to Berlin on Mar. 26. I ask the House to note carefully these dates.
*
couraged the Polish Government to take the action which I have des- cribed. But .our
own 'guarantee
was not given until Mar. 31 By
com-
Referring to Mr. Chamber- lain's statement that Britain's guarantee had nothing to do with Poland's attitude, the
Mar. 20, no mention of it had even į spokesman said that he could been made to the Polish Govern- ment.
Fears Aroused
"Recently, the occurrences Danzig have inevitably given rise
to fears that it was intended to
not expect them to belleve that Poland and Britain did not discuss the matter long before March 31.
"Great Satisfaction" WARSAW, July 11 (Router)——
settle the future status "by uni- Circles in close touch with the lateral action, organized by sur-Government declared that Mr. reptions methods, thus presenting Chamberlain's declaration in the Poland and the "other Powers with House of Commons has caused A falt accompli
situation, it had crystallized the attitude of the British Govern- ment.
There is also a feeling that Poland would have been forced to react to the recent devel- opments in the Free City and thas appear in the role of an aggressor unless the British Government had unequivocally declared their sipport of Poland.
It is thought that the speech, which is described in official "great satisfaction in Poland. circles as firm and clear has gone * "In such circumstances, any It was added in the same etra long way towards preventing & Action taken by Poland to rescles that while the declaration in conflict over Danzig by deaning tore the situation would, it troduced no new element into the Great Britain's attitude so firmly.
in
The King will proceed down" the Thames in the State barge and Inaugurate the renovated historic hall of the College,
At a banquet. in the Officers' Mess the Baron of Beef will ac cording to old English custom be carried in ceremonious procession across the hall, while the Naval Band will play "Roastbeef of Old England."
CONTINUATION OF TIENTSIN BLOCKADE FOR 2 YEARS, IF NECESSARY THREATENED
BERLIN, July 11 (T/Ocean)--Mr. Tashiro, the Japanese Con- sul-General In Tientsiri. In an interview granted to a wemi- official German" news agency, declared that Japan. If necessary, would continue the blockade of the British Concession in Tien- tsin for one or two yeRTE,
He added that already, the economic effects of the blockade were felt in Tientsin in the Brittan Concession, Non-British firms had left the Concession territory, while more than ten Chinese exchange banks had moved into the Japanese Concession. The result to the many Chinese evacuating the British Con- cession is beginning to show figns of thortage of labour.
・ Mr. Tashiro pointed out that the longer the blockade-con- tinued, the quicker new business centres developed outside the Concession territory
The Japanese authorities had already decided to build new. business premises an a large scale and new roads.
men.
provinces.
Land which was previously unde- Mie Pruitt also" appealed for veloped had now been put to good greater support for the move use," and various, small industries ment
had been set up in a region which
previously had not even one com- bustion engine. ... The country was
and ferit, and had an aban Co-operatives had made good use
dance of raw materials and the
of the resources at their command. Work In Klangsi
SOVIET ENVOY- TO CHINA KILLED IN CAR CRASH- MOSCOW, July 11 (Reuter
The work in South Klang had The Borlet Ambassador to China, been helped by American mission-Luganeta Oreleky, his wife and aries in the area, and great and their driver were killed in a motor "valuable assistance had also been accident in Russia yesterday." It is given to the co-operative organ revealed that the accident occurred zers by Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo, on July 8 between Kutaimi and son of the Generalissimo, who was Takhaltubo. In command of the region.
The Kutaisal City Commission There was a very poor halen in has established that the accident. South Klingai sald Mr. Alley, who caused by a mechanical defect which before the war had no in- in the car. dustry at all Everything bought
uganets-Orelsky, left Chung,
or sold there came from Bhangha king for MOSCOW on a holiday in and other coastal places To-day, March and has recently been un It had 40 small industries organiz- dergoing a cure in a health resort
ed on the cooperative principle.