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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1939.
IMMINENT PERIL
CHAMBERLAIN
REITERATES
日伍廿月谢华政拾叁佰我千业英
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OF WAR IN EUROPE
BRITAIN'S
DETERMINATION TO STAND BY PLEDGE
TO POLAND: PARLIAMENT TO PASS SPECIAL LAWS TO-DAY
Last-Minute Appeal
Unsuccessful Last-Minute
To Hitler: Resolution To Check Further Aggression With
Force
LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter) - "The international situation has steadily deteriorated since July 31 until today we find our- selves confronted with the imminent peril of war", declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in his speech at the re-assembling of Parliament to-day.
THE STATEMENT WAS HEARD BY A HOUSE OF COMMONS IMBUED WITH AFTER THE SPEECH, THE A SENSE OF THE DEEP GRAVITY OF THE OCCASION. HOUSE WILL PASS LEGISLATION FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM.
THE PRIME MINISTER," AT THE OUTSET, ANNOUNCED THAT THE 11 PM. ADJOURNMENT RULE WOULD BE SUSPENDED TO ENABLE THE LEGISLATION TO PASS THROUGH THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS TO-DAY.
Mr. Chamberlain proceeded to say that when the House adjourned few could have anticipated that it would be for long. The Government had been com- pelled to ask Parliament to meet to take such new drastic steps as the situation required.
Recalling the discussions between Danzig and Po- land and the position of Polish customs officials, Mr. Chamberlain said that this was not a matter of major. importance.
GERMAN LIES EXPOSED
The discussions were actually in progress when the German press opened a violent campaign against Poland and declared that Danzig could not be the sub- Ject of any conference or compromise but it must come back to the Reich immediately and unconditionally. They went further. They linked up with Danzig the question of the Corridor and alleged ill-treatment of Germans living in Poland.
"We have no means of checking these stories. We cannot help being struck by the fact that they bear strong resemblance to similar allegations last year (Cheers) in respect of Sudeten. Germans in Czecho- slovakia," said Mr. Chamberlain.
No subject was more calculated to arouse ill-feel- ing in any country than such statements as 1-treat- ment of their nationals and he thought it was agreed that in the face of this campaign the Polish declara- tions had shown great calm and self-restraint.
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Mr. Chamberlain
THE KING IN LONDON
BRITONS LEAVING
REICH
DERLIN, AUG. 24 (REU-
BER) THE BRITISH
AUTHORI-
CONSULAR TIES HAVE BEEN IN- STRUCTED FROM LON- DON TO
ALL GET BRITISH SUBJECTS TO LEAVE GERMANY IM- MEDIATELY.
RESERVES CALLED UP IN FRANCE
Pact Fails To Shake Calm
PARIS, AUG. 24 (REUTER)
FORSTER
FUEHRER OF DANZIG
Negotiations Broken Off
BERLIN, Aug. 24 (Reuter)-
Herr Förster has been appointed "Head of the Staté of the Free City of Danzig" by an official decree,
the official nounces
Agency.
an-
News
Emergency Powers Bill
Announced
LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter-The Emergency Powers Bill, announced by Mr. Chamberlain in the House! of Commons, provides for the ap-
AMERICANS TO LEAVE BRITAIN
LONDON, AUG. 24 (REU-
TER) MR. JOSEPH KENNEDY, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR
TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S, HAS REQUEST- ED ALL AMERICANS WHO HAVE NO URGENT REA- SONS
TO REMAININ
BRITAIN TO RETURN TO STATES THE UNITED IMMEDIATELY.
Adjustment On London
Exchanges
Discount Rate
Rises: German
HITLER ADVISED OF PACT SIGNING
Fanfare Of Reich Press
LONDON REACTION BERLIN, Aug. 24 (Reuter). Herr
von Ribbentrop, the Reich Foreign Minister, has already advised Herr Hitler of the signature of the Pact and is returning to Germany to- day to report to the German Fuehrer at Berchtesgaden.
WHAT OF THE
AXIS NOW? LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter)
There is a general impression here that the haste with
prehension, trial and punishment Bonds Decline which the terms of the Ger-
of offenders against the regula-
man-Soviet Pact were an- tions and the detention of persons LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter)nounced in the middle of the whose detention appears to be ex-The Bank of England dis- night in Berlin is some in- pedient in the Interest of public count rate has been raised dication of the high pro- from two to four per cent paganda value attached to it.
safety,makan datang.
The Bill gives power for, the possession → and controlling of any property or unterjaklag or acquisition of any property. -OUTSIDE ALL THE
The Bill also gives the right of TOWN HALLS AND PUBLIC
entry and search and the applica BUILDINGS IN PARIS THIS tion of any enactment with or MORNING ARE POSTED without modification. LARGE POSTERS CALLING The regulations apply, inter UP ALL MEN, WHOSE MO- alia, to all British ships and air- BILISATION PAPERS ARE craft, wherever they may be. MARKED WITH THE
FIGURES "3" OR "4"
This is the first collective summons and amounts to a partial mobilisations
PARIS, Aug. 24 (Reuter)-The
„THE PRESS
BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN TIENTSIN
This is the first change since kinne, 1932.
me ra The decision came rather as a surprise on the Stock Ex- change but it is considered to be a very good and favourable move.
Members of the public this morning are wondering what will happen now to the Anti- Comintern Agreement.
“ UNCONDITIONAL? " BERLIN, Aug. 24 (Reuter)—“Un-. conditional mutual neutrálíty ” is. The Stock Exchange fixed the theme of Berin newspaper minimum prices for gilt headlines announcing the conclu edged securities.
sion of the Moscow pact. No Mos- German bonds registered cow news was so prominently, dia- heavy declines, 4 per cents. played since the establishment of losing four points at 161⁄2 and the Third Reich. There is, how- 5. per cents. losing 51⁄2 at 222, ever, no accompanying comment.
The fact that the Treaty ́eilmin-' Far Eastern bonds were generally one to five points ates any ald by the Soviet to a Power involved in hostilities with lower. TIENTSIN, Aug. 24' (Reuter)-5
On the other hand there Germany is looked upon as ex- tremely important at the present signing of the Russo-German British soldier, belonging to the
móment.
told Pact failed to shake the Durham Light Infantry, was found were sharp rises in the com- electrocuted on the wire entangle-modity markets particularly French calm.
British grain futures (up to 14 d. "Journal" gives the general note ments surrounding the when it says there are two nations Concession. His name is not get per quarter) and sugar spot
refined at 3d. a cwt. conscious of their danger and ready to undergo the test of courage and sacrifice.. Never were they more calm, more resolute, more closely united and better armed.
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known.
FOOD SITUATION IN
Petit Journal" calls the agrée- HONGKONG NORMAL
ment a pact of banditry and treason. The paper adds that t
Privy Council In Session Mr. Chamberlain, after paying The further tribute to the Polish atti-pact was
Berkin LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter), extreme. Jubilation. 28 a H.M. the King arrived in tude, sald that on the other hand with military preparations had been great diplomatic victory which London this morning after appearance, seems to be little dis made by Germany on such a scale removed the threat of war over travelling
since we and France that Germany was now in a state Danzig
announcement of the
hailed in
a night in
the
is perhaps significant, at a moment when preparations are being hur ried forward, that Italy, at least in turbed by troop concentrations or throughout
movements, special Royal Discussing the British export of complete readiness for war. At would no longer be likely to full Saloon which was attached to prohibition, the beginning of the week we had our obligations to Poland, word that German troops were be-
"We felt it our duty to remove the ordinary night train from remarks that it is well to repeat In this connexion that the Reich ginning to move towards the Po- any such dangerous illusions." de- Perth.
At Easton Station there was is far from having completed its clared the Prime Minister to the lish frontier.
little formality The King was war stocks, sound of loud cheers
greeted by Lord #tamp, President
Coming to the Soviet-Ger man Pact, the Prime Minister declared that the nouncement came to the Gor- ernment as a surprbe-a sat- prise of a very unpleasant character,
PLEDGE TO POLAND The Premier recalled the guarantee to Poland was diven before any agreement with Russia was talked of. "How can we go back on our obliga- tions which we have so often. and so pointedly repeated?? asked Mr. Chamberlain force. fully.
Although there had been rum-. ours of an impending change in' Soviet-German relations no in- kling of that change had been con
"Therefore, our first act was to veyed either to us or the French
aue a statement that our obliga Government by the conet.”
This bombshell was flung down lons to Poland and other coun- when discussions between Britain, tres remained unaffected" France and the Soviet were pro- Proceeding to refer to British defence measures, Mr. Chamter. ceeding and had proceeded on "a haals of mutual trust. To say the laf said that hitherto these had least it was highly disturbing to heen precautionary and of a de- learn that these conversations' rere proceeding on that basis, and that the Soviet were secretly nego tiating for a pact with Germany for a purpose on the face of it Inconsistent with the objects of their foreign policy as we under- stood it (General cheers)
tensive character. He repudiated emphatically any suggestion that these measures implied an act of mensco.
"Nothing we have done or pro pose to do menaces À Germany's
legitimate interests. It is no act
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of the LMS. Rallway, and Sir. Philip Game,Commissioner of Police, and left immediately for Buckingham Palace.
A Privy Council was held at Buckingham Palace two-and-a- half hours after the King's return. Business arising out of the crisis was transacted.
Subsequently the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, had an audience of the King.
THE DOLLAR T.T. ON LONDON: 15, 2, 19/32d. T.T. ON NEW YORK; 28, 7/16 From Our Own Correspondent London Aug. 24, London silver prices to-day were up 1 for Spot and 1-1/18 for For ward as follows:--
Aug. 24 19-1/18- Forward 17-15/16 19
Bpot:18-1/16
"Echo de
Fresh Supplies Coming Without Interference
"The food situation in the Colony is at present normal";
He stressed, that said a Government spokesman yesterday. Paris"
supplies of fresh foodstuffs were entering the Colony without interference, and there was no cause for undue anxiety as the alination stood. Prices were fairly steady, there being only slight increases in the prices of certain commodities which were counter-balanced by lower prices quoted on others,
-On Other- Pages
PAGE 2-Night baseball. Olym
pic preparations. New land speed motor record. What * 18 čricket?
PAGE 3-Women's interests.
Confide in Faith Prior. PAGE Cinemas, Crossword
puzzle. Coming events./ PAGE 6Newsettes Menu. PAGE 7-Compulsory evacua-" tion, Heroin case at Sessions. Tramic cases Youthful Chi- nese tourists.
PAGE Leading article: 60- viet German Pact signed. Special PAGE 10, Radio programmes.
The Bervices. PAGE 11-Emigration to Cey
lon stopped, Chinese play at Malvern
A political commentator. Reuter that Britain should exhort Poland to be feasonable,
ITALIAN COMMENT. ROME, Aug. 24 (Reuter)-The text of the German-Russian Pact is published on the front pages of all newspapers under huge head- ["lines.
"Messagero" says that the sig nature of the Pact does little to justify the war measures taken by democratic governments. Neither Britain nor France are in danger, nor even Foland,
WANG'S FOLLOWERS
EXPELLED CHUNGKING, August 24 (Central) The Central Party Headquarters" has decided to expel five more followers of Wang Ching- wet, namely, Mel Sze-ping, Kao Tsung-wu, Li Sheung- wn, Ting Mo-chun and Lin Po-sen, permanently from the Kuomintang.
The authorities, he stated, had guard supplies, fix maximum prices had the question of the Colony's and build reserves. food supply under confideration Stocks of staple commodities for a considerable time, and ade such as rice and four were con- quate plans had been devised for sidered to be ample at the present the protection, conservation and time, he said. While deprecating marketing of produce in the event hoarding by residents, the spokes An undisclosed number of men of an emergency, as in all other man said it was a sensible precau of the East Surrey Regiment, who tion for residents to analyse their arrived here last week en route to defence precautions.
The question had to be studied own food wants now and, if posShanghai to join their Regiment, from the standpoint of what formsible, have a small extra stock of have received instructions to re-
such possible emergency would necessaries on hand,
asame, said the spokesman, and Government's action in many
NEW SALVATION
ways would revolve on this point. ARMY GENERAL
STEPS DECIDED VA
LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter).
As soon as the situation war- ranted, the steps already decided The Salvation Army High Counell would be put into fores, said the has elected Commissioner George L
Canad spokesman, who referred to pre-Carpent
the next
vious periods of emergency, Buch General. The final
as in 1914 and during the 1925 | wine strice and boycott, when compre- 35. hensive legislation was introduced well Fat the proper time to ensure and Osbor
main in the Colony pending fur- ther developments in the inter- national situation. It is reliably Learned.
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