"Hongkong Daily Prem"-Sept. 19, 1934.
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玖拾捌佰式仟任离式第
SUDDENNESS
OF
SOVIET
ACTION
WAS TO PREVENT WHOLE POLAND
BEING OVERRUN T. V. SOONG BY THE GERMANS ON SECRET
Will Hitler Try To Carry War To France?
Maginot Line Extends Along Belgian Frontier
ONDON, SEPT. 18 (REUTER)-ALTHOUGH PORTIONS
OF THE POLISH ARMY MAY TROUBLE THE GER- MANS, FOR SOME DAYS YET, THE CHIEF INTEREST OF MILITARY OBSERVERS, IS HOW LARGE AN ARMY GERMANY MAY DEEM NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN IN POLAND TO FACE THE RUSSIAN INVASION.
All agree that the suddenness of Russian action was due to the necessity of preventing all Poland from being overrun by the Germans and creating a barrier against German penetration to the fertile cornlands of Ukraine which it has been an article of faith with all Russians that Hitler ultimately plans to possess.
"CARVING UP POLAND" COPENHAGEN, Sept. 18 (Reuter) The "Politiken" and says
that German Russian military and poli- tical chiefs are holding a big meeting at Brest-litovsk to-day for the purpose of deciding "how they should carve up Poland and where the new Russo-German frontier shall be establish- ed."
JAPAN SEES LONG WAR
• IN EUROPE
MISSION
TO MOSCOW
SHANGHAI REPORT
NOT CONFIRMED
SHANGHAI, Sept. 18 (Reu- ter) Considerable excite- ment was caused here by a report, hitherto unconfirmed; that Mr. T. V. Soong, brother- in-law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and former Minister of Finance, has gone on a secret mission to Mos- COW.
like
Rumour of this mission spread
throughout wildare
the Shanghat business Community and resulted in general hardening of feeling in the dollar.
The report freely connects Mr. Soong's mission to Moscow with the possibility that some form of armistice may be negotiated in Moscow between China and Japan similar to the armistice recently in Moscow between
It is noteworthy that Rus-concluded sia waited till the last mo- Russia and Japan. ment to inform Germany that she is invading Poland and suppiled no details.
Large forces are already transferring from Poland to
GEN. TERAUCHI IN BERLIN
(Reuter)- BERLIN, Sept. 18 the Western Front where The Nazi radio announces that French penetration averages Gen, Terauchi, head of the Jap- twelve-and-a-half miles over anese military mission recently in Rome, arrived here to-day and was a forty-mile front.
French
practically met by the heads of the fighting now guns
VOD Ribbentrop, dominate the Saar Valley where forces. blast furnaces of the coal mines Foreign Minister, was also presenti are empty thus depriving Germany having returned from
Herr
of important supplies of iron and for the purpose,
coal.
The question is whether Ger- many will remain on the defensive
in the Siegfried Line or invade Belgium and Holland in an deavour to carry the war France.
en- to
Reports of civilian population being evacuated behind the Bel- gian and Dutch frontiers, particu
Bel-
the front
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GRAVE. ANXIETY FELT IN ESTONIA AND LATVIA: SOVIET SOLDIERS CONCENTRATING NEAR FRONTIERS
A pupil tries his hand at "Taking a sight" of the sun. one of the mare intricate of charting his position when flying high with thick weather hiding the landmarks below.
RUSSIAN RIDDLE IS STILL NOT SOLVED
Marked Cleavage Of Opinion
In Leading London Press
LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-A singularly uncom- promising condemnation is given by most of the London newspapers to the Red Army's entry into Poland though the fact that there is marked cleavage of opinion regard- ing M. Stalin's motives, between important organs like "The Times" and the "Daily Telegraph," suggests that the Russian riddle is still not solved to universal satis- faction.
The "Daily Telegraph" in- terprets the move as one of
expressed the
Moscow Train Fails To Arrive At Riga
LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-Grave anxiety has been caused in Estonia and Latvia by the Soviet entry into Poland according to a Polish broadcast which reported... that Soviet troops are concentrating near the frontiers of the two States.
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The Moscow-Riga train falled to arrive at Riga "yes- terday.
The Latvian Minister in Moscow, in common with the representa- ! tives of other States," has received an assurance that the Soviet will neutrality pursue a policy of towards Latvia, states the Latvian Agency, which adds: "It goes without saying that the autho- rities will resist any attempts to violate the frontier.”
RUMANIA'S' NEUTRALITY BUCHAREST, Sept. 18 (Router)
Nazis Claim Polish Campaign Nearing End
AIR FORCE READY
It is officially learned that the FOR OTHER TASKS Rumanian Minister in.. Moscow has - BERLIN, Sept. 18 (Reuter) that Ru--The German High Com-
received assurances
manian neutrality will be respect-mand states, that the Polish
ed..
1s
.. It stated categorically
that Rumania is determined
to defend her frontiers against "all comers and is taking neces- - sazy...) precautions,
campaign is approaching an end. According to the same source Lublin has been con- quered "and Lwow encircled.
The communique added Poland has no intention of in- that as the greater part of voking Rumania's assistance Poland is now occupied the under the Rumanian Polish German Air Force is now Treaty.
assembled for other tasks,
SPARED DESTRUCTION
WILNO REACHED RIGA, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-It is LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter) ieported that Russian troops have Evidently Warsaw has been spared reached wilno, about 80 miles total destruction sa previously from the Soviet-Polish frontier threatened by Germany. and 25 miles from the Lituanian border.
BULGARIA IMPRESSED
It is sald that the German High. Command declared that as Poland is practically conquered no useful SOFIA, Sept. 18- (Reuter)-The purpose could be served by smash- Boviet entry into Feland hasing Warsaw which eventually will made a great impression in Bul- surrender "with the least distress. garia and is the subject of much and bloodshed. comment in political circles
The general view is that a Black Sea Pact will soon be concluded and the Soviet will strengthen her relations with "eastern, southern and western Europe, at three points vital to her-Baltic Sea, the mouth of the Danube and the Dar- danelles.
GERMANS ADVANCE BERLIN, Sept. 18 (Reuter)--It is claimed that German troops in south-east Poland are advancing
BRITISH ENVOY LEAVES PARIS, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-The British Ambassador to Poland. Str Howard Kennard, and the remain- der of his staff has arrived in Czernowitz. The French envoy is expected there soon.
Two
hundred Polish - planes "which" landed in Czernowits in Rumania have been impounded and the crews interned.
POLISH REFUGEES A RIGA, Sept. 18, (Reuter)-Retu- Drohobycz, Magterow and gees from Poland haye, begun, to Krasntystaw, south-east north pour towards the Latvian frontier. east and north of Prozmysli, according to telegram from respectively.
Daugavplis..
TOKYO, Sept, 18 (Reuter) The larly around Aix-La-Chapelle, BRITISH HAND OVER view is held here that the whole point to the latter design.
PART OF SECTOR Europe will eventually be involved glan defences, however, are much in a struggle for survival lasting stronger than in 1914 and the
SHANGHAI, Sept. 18 (Peuter) self-protection against Ger- FRANCE BITTER: Maginot Line extends along the Implementing their promise to re- many and for many years.
A spokesman of the Japanese Belgian frontier.
vise the question of the defence opinion that Russia is alarm-US. CONDEMNS Foreign Office declared to-day| Week-end reports of the fight- arrangements. of Shanghai fored at the rapidity of the Ger- that the Soviet-Japanese truce ing around Saarbruecken suggests which a meeting of the British, man advance and the threat SOVIET ACTION had nothing to do with the Euro- that the Germany Army is not American and Italian commanders it offers to Russia's western
that of the last warwas called by the Japanese last frontier.
LONDON, Sept. 18(Reater)— pean situation nor was it con-equal to
The French press is bitter over the cluded through German media-Counter-attacks that fail are par-
Thursday, the British to-day Russia is determined that the Soviet invasion of Poland while
It is admitted that fightng is It is added that 20 Polish planes tion."..
ticularly costly warfare.
agreed to hand over to the Japan whole of Poland shall not come the American press strongly can still in progress for possesion of have landed here and have been ese part of their defence sector. under German domination and is demns the Soviet action. nately, that section north of
willing to risk a clash with her The "New York Times" says that Lublin, in central Poland. Soochow Creek, known BS. "C new friends to protect Russian in- this is the price for which M. man's land,” extending between..
betrayed Britain and North Honan and North Kiangs telests, for, wherever two great Stalin
armles meet in such circum-France. The idealogy is now - be- Roads, and which adjoins the
stances, there must be some danger tweer democracy and "peace and western perimeter of the Japanese-of incidents leading to a war. despotism, terror and war. occupied area of Hongkew.
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IMPORTANT GERMAN MECHANISED FORCE BROKEN BY POLES
·KUTY (Polish-Rumanian frontier), Sept. 18 (Reuter) (Delayed in transmission)--An important German me- chanised force was completely broken up by Polish troops 15 miles to the west of Lwow, according to a communique Issued on Sunday by the Polish Telegraphic Agency.
ARGENTINA ACTION
AGAINST NAZI AIRLINERS
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 18 (Reu- ter)-The Argentins Government has refused to allow. German air- liners to proceed to Rio de Janeiro by any other route except that prescribed for commercial avia tion
A hundred armoured cars and 50 guns were captured together with several thousand prisoners. The communique added that the remainder of the German force retreated in disorder towards the west.
This section was originally held by the Japanese.
It is understood that no other regision has yet been proposed by the Japanese.
20,000 CIVILIANS KILLED
WORTH NO MUKE”! The new "Russo-German' Non- Aggression Pact is worth no more! than Herr Hitler's agreement with Austria, Czechoslovakia and Po land.
M. Stalin cannot watch the German steam-roller crashing. Over..prostrate Poland without an uneasy suspicion that the driver may forget to stop, and M. Stalin can have no doubt as to what Hitler covets moet, “
As the buffer state between Bussia and Germany becomes smaller distrust between the two nations will become" `more. evident
Spain now seems more in sympathy with Britain and France. The Russian invasion has created. a bad impression among the Spaniards.
BUFFER STATE MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (Reuter}).... It is understood here that the Whatever the future may hold Soviet Government plans to leave
faterned.
Aircraft Carrier Sunk
By U-Boat: Did Good Work Protecting Merchantmen
LONDON, SEPT. 18 (REUTER)—The, ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCES THAT THE ÄIRCRAFT CARRIER HL.M.S. COURAGEOUS - WAS TO- DAY LOST BY ENEMY SUBMARINE ATTACK, M
The Courageous was with the Reserve Fleet and was performing valuable services when sha" was attacked and sunk. Her crew was rescued by destroyers and merchant ships.
The submarine was immediately, The submarine was heavily at
The fact that this success could LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter) two things are certain. Firstly Blesia, Danng and the Corridor heavily attacked by British des tacked by destroyers and is be be obtained despite the need for In & broadcast in Russian, on that the presence of the powerful in German hands and retain West troyers and presumably destroyed. lleved to have been sunk, o
The full complement of "the communique. September 18, Moscow monounged Russian Army on his eastern front Ukraine and create a Polish bufgr retreat, says the
HMS. Courageous was one of provides eloquent testimony to the that 20,000 civilians were killed lers will immobilize a large part of state between the Soviet and Courageous with personnel of the the best aircraft carriers Bhe
Fleet Air Arm would be about was originally completed excellent morale of Polish troops by German bombing in Lemberg Herr Hitler's forces at a time when
1:200 officers and men.
cruiser in 1917, and was converted Germans had they are needed in the west and,
after the war, refugees trom secondly that Poland brutálly stricken to the earth, will rise again.
NO IMMEDIATE COST
SCANTY NEWS LONDON, Bept 18 (Reuter)-- News of the situation in Foland is scanty here and the Follah Em- This step was taken in consul-bassy state that they are anxious- tation with the Brazilian Goverly awaiting news,
ment.
jand that the machine-gunned Lublin
الم المراة
THE HAGUE, Sept, 18 (Reuter)- "The Times says that the Ger The Netherlands Government in mans knew better when they judg It is impossible to hear the stopping the entry of Jewish re- It is rumoured that German broadcasts from the Polish stations fugees into Holland. No new per ed that the self-denying objects of a peace front would prove pallied airliners have been making trips in the early hours and it is not mits will be issued while those and uninning to Rusis compared not connected with their regular known whether the stations are fed after July i have been de
clared..vold. Tuna
jammed or stopped.
Contimed on: Par
Germany.
TIN QUOTA
BY REDUCED COMPLEMENT
British Wireless reports that the * LONDON, ✅ Bept. 18 - (Reuter) Courageous was commissioned The tin quota for the third year with the Reserve Fleet In August has been raised to 100 per cent.
STOCKHOLM, Beut
BLACK-OUT
with reduced complement of sir-
Full details rega craft" and, since the opening of (Reuter) hostilities, has been performing com The Foilsh subms Fys has very good service in protecting else to be taken refuge in Sandhamny near ships of the merchant marine evening, September Stockholm, and her crew interned, against U-boat attack
found on Paro 5.