"Hongkong Dalty Free"-Sept. 11, 1939.
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WARSAW STILL
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1939.
WHILE BRITONS
BIRANYAMBERTER
HOLDS,
WEST
UNCHANGED: BRITAIN SAYS
COUNTRY
POSTS IN
THREE
YEARS
SOVIET UNION
WAR WILL LAST
Polish Withdrawal Is Orderly; Army Intact
PINCER MOVE FOILED
LONDON, SEPT. 10 (REUTER)—THE FATE OF WAR- SAW WAS STILL IN THE BALANCE AT 11 P.M. YESTER- DAY (6 A.M. TO-DAY, H.K. TIME).
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BUDAPEST HAS JUST QUOTED A POLISH WIRELESS MESSAGE ANNOUNCING THAT THE CITY WAS BEING HEAVILY BOMBED, BUT THAT GERMAN TROOPS HAD NOT AS YET ENTERED IT.
The announcer explained, "The city will be defended to the last drop of blood."
The German High Command, on the other hand, again claims that German troops have entered Warsaw from the Southwest. It also claims that Lodz is now in German hands.
A GREAT BATTLE COPENHAGEN, Sept. 10 (Reater) The Foles are preparing to fight
小
Long Term MANS BORDER Plans For Empire
MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (Ren- ter)-Preparations for the defence of the Soviet Union were continued on Friday night and Saturday. More reservists have been called up while doctors, engineers and other specialists are leaving Moscow in the direction of the Soviet-
TO BITTER END Polish frontier.
LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter) It was announced by the War Cabinet at a meeting held this morning, that it has General Gamelin. Chief of the been decided to base British Allied Policy on the assumption that the war will last three years
French General Staff and Com- mander-in-Chief of the
Forces:
"Approach
Phase" On
West Front
that
mattters are
(Reuter)--A
or more..
A statement issued through the Ministry of Information adds, "Instructions" have been issued to all Government De- that partments to ensure plans for the future shall im- mediately be prepared on this assumption. In the meantime all measures for which pre- paration had already been made, have been brougnt, fully into active operation.
MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (Reuter) -- The official news agency says that the Soviet Govern- ment has decided the partial calling of several classes of reservists for further streng- thening the defence of the country in connection with the German-Polish war which is assuming more extensively menacing character,
Japanese Army Must Withdraw
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British Ambassador's Broadcast Advice
SHANGHAI, Sept. 10 (Reuter) The British Am- bassador to China, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, to-day broadcast a message to British subjects throughout China advising them that, despite patriotic feelings, it was probably advisable not to rush home immediate- ly to join the ranks as many would be able to serve the country best by remaining at their posts, at least, for the present.
Ambassador then
Explaining that he chose The British this method of giving advice pointed out that Britons in China (by wireless in preference to were thousands of miles from the It would be many the press) in order to contact seat of war, Britons in the more remote weeks before they were able to re- turn home and still longer before parts of China, the British their services were made use of. Ambassador declared:
are not necessarily furthering the cause of your country by hurrying
"I urge those of you who are For a week we have been at Hstening to bear in mind that you war. What brought the war is well known to you all. At such a moment It is natural that we should be wondering how best we and seeking to be sent home im-.
mediately. may serve the country."
.:
that it was better able than he to
TIME TO CONSIDER
for passing judgment: anNAJUL,
set
up.".
OWN FEELINGS Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, then "It seems to me that many of A special correspondent retreat must have disappointed the with the Polish army says Nazis in their attempted "pincer
recalled his own feelings of 25 years you would serve your country best in Western Poland.
ago when Britain entered the War.by remaining at your posts in that the Polish army began movement"
declaring that for three years out China, at any rate until there is withdrawing from Upper Sile- Only at Posnan were several divi-
sions in danger of being cut off.
of the four he was prevented from time to consider and pass `judg- sla and Posnan Province on
Joining in the war by a higher ment on your spedal fitness for. Monday: This section, of the
authority: He rebelled hotly this or that type of service." army has been bearing the
against "the decision of that au-
"Ultimately,"
Clark-Kerr S'HAI PAPER'S brunt of the strong attack by
thority but subsequently admitted added, "each must decide for bir- mechanised troops, aeroplanes a great battle east of Warsaw, ac-
APT SUGGESTION that cording to well informed circles in PARIS, Sept. 10 and artillery. The troops
"A Turtherance of the expanded
mural measure his usefulness self, but the necessary machinery Warsaw quoted by the Berlin cor- semi-omcial survey of the situa
CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 (Central)
"To-day most of you must be were withdrawn, intact and
respondent of the "National ton on the Western Front states defence programme is already be- the
-with- pace with the
still only in ing operated by the Ministry of Commenting on the Japanese de feeling as I felt then, asking your special fitness' is at present being Tidende." drawal was made is
the approach phase, and in the supply, which will forthwith takemand for the withdrawal of troops selves how best you can serve your un-
In conclusion he begged, all to The correspondent adds thati
veritable fortress of animously considered by neu-Germany is already preparing for
warfare necessary steps to ensure that the of third Powers from China to country and telling yourselves that developed on the Western Front productive capacity for "munitions avoid untoward incidents, the "Ta without a doubt your place is in have patience and to rest sasured tral military observers as a the incorporation of Poland into there is as yet no question of an of all kinds will be increased on a Mel Wan Pao," an American-owned the ranks. I assure you that there that their loyalty and natural brilliant achievement of the the Reich. The Minister for the
attack in force.
scale required to meet every pos- Chinese evening paper, pointed out is none more sympathetic than I eagerness would be brought to the Polish army.
Interior, Dr. Frick, who worked
Issue. Corresponding ar-in an
editorial yesterday that but believe me it is not inevitably notice of His Majesty's Govern- Advance French elements and sible out the scheme for the incorpora-
corps specialists are rangements are being made at the nether the British or French and immediately true that your ment.
China had created any best place'is in the ranks," declared Meanwhile, the Ambassador is tion of Czechoslovakia, is already engineer
sweeping the area of traps set Admiralty and the War Ministry. troops in
untoward incident.
Bir Archibald.
asking for guidance from London. planning this.
with murderous ingenuity by
CIVIL NEEDS
On the contrary," the paper re- German fortifiers during the past)
In the great national interest, marked, Japanese troops in China year.
"untoward the civil needs of the country will had brought about an be borne in mind as well and also incident" which had been in the importance of maintaining the existence for more than two years export trade.
and had „incurred huge expendi....
The samic correspondent says that the Polish army is still intact. Most of it has not yet been engaged with the enemy, and the morale In all cases is excellent.
DIPLOMATS LEAVE LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter)-A A message which was received vla Budapest declares that the number of foreign missions in- withdrawal was in accordance with cluding the British Embassy, have
territory,
a pre-arranged plan to draw the left Warsaw. Sir Howard Ken- Germans into Polish while keeping the Polish army intact.
He saw no signs of demoralisa-
tion or depression during a long Affairs, Col. J. Beck, has also left armies. 60 miles tour and he adds that the Warsaw,
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GERMAN PREPARATIONS BRUSSELS, Sept. 10 (Reuter)
"The War Cabinet is confident |ture and loss of life to the Japan- nard, British Ambassador, states News from the Rhineland indicates that, as far as can be determined, that the German military com-that this significant decision will ese as well as China and third all British subjects are safe.
mand Is preparing to meet the meet with the wholehearted sup- Powers The Polish Minister for Foreign full force of the British and French port of the British people and will The paper suggested that the
also be welcomed by our allies and Japanese troops themselves with-"|| friends."
draw as the best precautionary The emphasis in the decision is laid, says Reutër's diplomatic correspondent, not on the fact that the Government bases its polley on the assumption that the war will last three years or more, but that Britain is determined-to-see the matter through and to fight Nazism te the bitter end...
ENTIRE BORDER FROM
SHATAUKOK TO LOKMACHAU IS QUIET
(Special to the "Hongkong Daily Press")
"So quiet that you could hear a pin drop" was how a "Daily Press" reporter described conditions on the New Territories border after he had made, a tour of the entire line from Shataukok to Lokmachau, on Saturday.
Shataukok slumbered in the hot sun. There was little activity anywhere, and the country people who shuffled slowly along betrayed a dreamy expression. The barbed wire barricade five hundred yards below in the IL that separated British and valley, travelling westwards. removed, and passage in and that had gone to Shataukok that out of either side was un-morning, and was not making its way back to Shumchun or Nam- hindered.
tau.
Roads have been blocked by transports of troops, and it is un- derstood that many air force units have been transferred to the west from the Polish front. ·
Pollsh sources claim that the Germans must have hitherto lost 10,000 dead.
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
PARIS, Sept. 10 (Reuter) - A communique says that the enemy is resisting on the whole front and various local counter-attacks are reported.
A brilliant attack by a French division assured the occupation of an important piece of terrain.
Enemy artillery reacted, says the communique.
Chinese territory was partly was probably the supply column BRITISH LINERS
Only one solitary Japanese Sentry British posts were dotted at re- could be observed on the Chinese gular intervals along the road. side of Shataukok: It was gather-Takuling police station had been ed, however, that there were about turned into a barracks for the 200 Japanese there. Early on Rajputana Elfes. Saturday morning, a supply column Further along, the Hongkong
had arrived from Namtau.
Canton highway was barricaded. After examining the reporter's The bridge over the Shamchun credentials and his pass, the IRiver had been demolished. dian officer on duty permitted him
At Lown, the railway bridge "had to drive along the frontier road also been removed, only the two The road was narrow. barely massive side spans remaining. sufficient for a car to pass along. There was also little activity here, and driving here was no easy and the only signs of the Japan- ese were the sentry on the other
matter.
COLUMN OF CAVALRY
COLONY TO
ORGANIZE WAR RELIEF
PUBLIC MEETING ON THURSDAY
ESCAPE FROM U-BOATS
A public
H.E. The Governor
Preside
meeting will be
LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter)
measure against further antoward
incidents.
VIOLATION OF BELGIAN BORDER
LONDON, Sept. 10. (Reuter)- Further detalls of the violation of the Belgian border is revealed in an official announcement which stated that two bombers after the
Why Conte Biancamano Failed To Appear At Bombay And Colombo
"DAILY PRESS" MAN CLEARS UP ITALIAN LINER MYSTERY
Exclusive to the "Hongkong Daily Press
The mystery which surrounded the movements of the gleaming white Italian mail liner, Conte Bian- camano, Lloyd Triestino's 14,000-ton Europe-Orient passenger vessel, shortly before the outbreak of hos tilities in Europe, was cleared up when the ship arrived in Hongkong yesterday with the Italian colours boldly painted on her sides.
"It will be recalled that after leaving Genoa, her home port,
reconnaissance leaflet fight over the Conte Biancamano took AFRIKANDER
Germany unintentionally crossed the border.
the usual route to the East via: Port Said and Aden,
Leaving Aden on August 24, to land by Belgian fighters and the she was due in Bombay on
One of the bombers was forced
crew of Ave interned.
The other, bomber was
chased
UNITY
*now
PRETORIA, Sept. 9 (Reuter)- August 28, but a day, out of Addressing. 15,000 people at the Monument, and was said to have been fired Aden the Captain, apparently historie Voortrekker upon by another Belgian fighter. on instructions received from Gen. Hertzog, former Premier of British planes returned fire and Rome, altered the course of South Africs, mid that a shot down the Belgian machine. the vessel to avoid Bombay Afrikander unity had been born The crew of two landed safely by and Colombo, and made and that all must work for com- ¡parachutes
straight for the Dutch East mon ideais. Indies.
LAW-ABIDING
30 NAZI FLEET
He appealed to his hearers to do nothing that would be unconstitu NUMEROUS HUMOURS
itional: The failure of the vessel to call Mr. Malan said that the King
The British Union liner, Warwick held at Government House on Castle (20,000 too) was to-day Thursday, Sept. 14, at at Bombay on Aug. 28, according dom of South Africa should not chased by a German submarine p.m. in order to form the The German Naval High Com- speculation in shipping circles in attained.
to her programme, caused much rest until the Republican ideal is but managed to escape..
Hongkong Branch or the mand has declared, according to a the East and all sorts of rumours Another British ship similarly British Red Cross Society and German broadcast, that contrary began to be circulated as to the
the Order of Saint John of to the statement issued by the vessel's movements.
escaped from a U-boat.
GERMAN SHIPS
...ASHORE
LONDON, Bept. 10 (Reuter) side of the river and the Rising Two German ships are reported to be ashore on the Norwegian It was about 1 miles to Bun flag duttering on top of a
Const. Eheungahul along the frontier house on the hill road. Not a soul was visible for the greater part of the trip. Near Takuling, a column of about 100 Japanese cavalry was seen four or
"
"EXCEPTIONALLY QUIET"
A British steamer, a Good "Things are exceptionally quiet wood, was attacked in the North here," said the Rajputana Rifles Sea and the crew picked up by
a fishing trawler. Continued on Back Faga
Jérusalem.
HE."the
preside.
British Ministry of Information, Governor will the German navy has strict orders to abide, in all circuinstances, - by the International agreements on
SWEDEN'S STATUS
The objects of the organiza-sea warfare. tion are to collect funds and otherwise to provide comforts for sick and wounded men of the Fighting Services and civilians.
It hoped that all those who are interested will attend.
STOCKHOLM, Bept. 10 (Reuter) The British Government has in timated that it will respect Sweden's neutrality insofar as it
respected by Germany,
One report ventured to mr- gest that the ship had been re- called to Italy and much pon- cern was felt for the large number of. British passengers. including many Indians and Chinese, who were on board. It was also knben" that the
ship was carrying the last batch of Jewish refugets from Germany to Shangdar
Continued on Pare 7
U.S. Aid For Polish Red Cross
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (Renter) The American Red Cross, Boclety has voted $50,000 for bospital equipment for the Polish [Red" Cross.