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HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, "1939.
H恰月拾年玖拾叁佰玖千英
DEVELOPMENTS
LIFE WITHOUT PEACE
EXPECTED
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MOMENTARILY:
MILITARY
DETAILS KNOWN ONLY TO
HITLER, CHIEFS MR. GANDHI
& VICEROY'S
Believed Action Will STATEMENT Directed Against Britain
REPORTS FROM BERLIN STATE THAT MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS ARE EXPECTED. AT ANY MOMENT, THE DETAILS OF WHICH ARE KNOWN ONLY TOTM HERK HITLER AND HIS CHIEFS.
WELL-INFÖRMED CIRCLES BELIEVE THAT THE ACTION WILL BE DIRECTED AGAINST BRITAIN, SAYS A REUTER MESSAGE FROM BRUSSELS.
German troop concentrations on the Swiss frontier continue, according to well-informed French circles, in Paris,
The Swiss military authorities are reported to have taken precautionary measures.
New Polish Government Recognised By League
LONDON, Oct. 29 (Renter)— The Polish Government which was recently formed in Paris has been acknowledged by the League of Nations,
The Polish protest against the partition of the country by Germany and Rumia and the return of Vilna to Lithuania has been accepted by the Lea- FRO.
NEUTRALITY OF RUSSIA QUESTIONED
BOMBAY GOVT. TO RESIGN ON
TUESDAY:
BOMBAY, Oct. 28 (Reuter) -Tae Bombay, Government has announced that it will re- sign on Tuesday,
Commenting on Sir Samuel Hoare's statement on India in the House of Commons, Mr. Gandhi said to-day. that be #ppreciated the concillatory
tone of the speech and he was embarrassed at having to pro- duce a jaring note,
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"UNREAL” REMARKS
"German concentrations on cur northern frontier give no
Sir Samuel had spoken of the cause for special anxiety," de-need to look after the Indian clares an official statement minorities, but, with the excep- issued in Berne.
tion of the depressed, there was It adds that reports that the Do minority in India which was Germans have massed 12 divl- not able to look after itself. Sir slons in this area do not cor- Samuel's remarks, therefore, seem- respond in any way with truc led to Mr. Gandhi to be "unreal," facts.
He was glad to hear that Bri- The Paris Radio announced that tain had abandoned her Im- information received in Paris perialistic ideas, but would she which confirms reports that the not allow the people of India"ta, Germans are concentrating troops judge of that for themselves? on the North Sea coast between
NOT BARREN IDEA Bremen and Hamburg.
Sir Samue had laughed at sug-
A war communique, Issued in gestions of non-co-operation, but Paris, states: "There were encoun- Mr. Gandhi was convinced that it ters between reconnaissance par-was not as barren an idea as Sir tles at different points, A sea, Samuel thought. patrol boats picked up the bodies
of German officers and sailors be-
longing to a sunken submarine.”.
NEW SLOVAKIAN CABINET BERLIN, Oct. 29 (Reuter)—M. Tiso. President of Slovakia, has an- nounced his Cabinet in which the previous. Deputy Prime Minister.
Affairs.
Both Congress and the British
Government were on trial and nothing but good..could come of it if they both played the game.
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WOMEN'S PART DECLARES H.K. CATHOLIC BISHOP
IN THE WAR
ON THE LAND.-A woman driving a tractor and plough. She is in training for farm work at an agricultural college in the South of England.
Pirates
Again
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Busy In
Mirs And Bias Bay Areas:
Outspoken Sermon Given At Mass In Cathedral
"LIFE WITHOUT PEACE IS UNBEARABLE;~PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE IS UNATTAINABLE; AND JUSTICE, WITHOUT SOME MEASURE OF LOVE, IS UNTHINK ABLE," declared the Right Rev. Mgr. H. Valtorta, Vicar- Apostolic of Hongkong, in the course of his sermon at the Solemn Pontificia! Mass celebrated yesterday morning at the Catholic Cathedral on the occasion of the Feast of the Kingship of Christ.
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Regarded as the most important addition to. Catholic Church calendar for many years, the Feast was instituted in 1925 for the purpose, as declared in the Encyclical Letter of the Pope, in order to give due homage, to Christ, as the first-born of the human race and the ruler, by Divine right, of all men and all nations.·
The Mass in the morning| was attended by all devout Catholics in the Colony and was marked by the atten- dance of the combined choirs of the Cathedral and St. Joseph's Church.
In the course of his sermon. Bishop Valtorta said:-
Soviet "Offensive"
Against Rumania
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At the beginning of his reign Pius X had proposed the restora tion of all things in Christ, Bene- dict XV the reconciliation of peace, Plus XI joined these two.objectives
PARIS. Oct. 29 (Reuter)-The inviting the World to seek the oficial French Radio commentator peace of Christ through the reign stated last night that certain aaa..." of Christ. His Holiness ingists that tral observers consider that it is there is only one road to the City possible that a Soviet "offensive" of Peace; the road hallowed by the may be launched shortly against Prince of Peace; that Christ alone! Rumania and Turkey. can claim "to be universal King, that he alone has a code of laws and a programme of Ife unchang- ing tn: their perfection and unchangeable in their ideals. Tet Ds look
The commentator added that Life without peace is unbearable; the Nazi leaders are evidently at PIRATE CRAFT HAVE AGAIN BEEN ACTIVE in the peace without justice is unattain-tempting to impress on observers Mirs Bay and Bias Bay areas, small fishing and cargo able; and justice without some that, both internally and abroad. junks being singled out as a likely prey. Over the week-measure of love is unthinkable. It Russia and Germany are strongly" end, three reports have been made to the police, of such seems hardly necessary to stress linked, with their interests identi- piracies.
any of these points. Even the cal and that their collaboration in home ideally man's haven. Is the Balkans in no way conflicted place of rest and security, ceases with Italian interests.
Three Reports: Man Hurt ok at the claim.
In all cases, an
almost i identical
procedure Was
adopted ..by the pirates. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER to merit the name home when.
Shots were fired, the "junk
strife robs it of peace. No need to LONDON, Oct. 29 (Reuter)-The ppt to the result of peace broken PRAGUE. Oct. 28 (Reuter) boarded, and then, in all Duke of Gloucester, driving his among nations: we have it at our of three cases reported, masts, own car, visited the Memorials indoors, in shattered homes, in ruined To-day was the Anniversary
of the founding Czechoslovakia pars and rudders were un-memory of men' of Canada. Aus-cities in highways strewn with
over-tralia, New Zealand, South Africa l corpses.. hinged and board.
and New Foundland of 1914-18, re-
M. Tuka, becomes Prime Minister in 1913. Despite the Nazi Ban on
demonstrations, and M. Durcansky, Minister for all pubile
the Home Affairs in addition to Foreign Czechs observed the holiday "in
various ways. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Reuter) Otherwise there tre no
Several clashes with the police A complaint that Russia falled changes, states the German News occurred in Prague and a number to co-operate with the United Agency.
of arrests were made. Stätes in the City of Flint 'incident
was made by the State Depart- ment.
It accuses the Soviet with with holding information and not in- forming the US. Government whether the steamer had actually left Murmansk. By such action Russia's neutrality is questioned.
WESTERN FRONT AT STANDSTILL PARIS, Oct. 29 (Reuter)-Activity | on the Western Front is now at a standstill after yesterday's report of activity being reduced during the night to a few outpost-con- tacts.
CHINESE ATTACK KAIFENG
AND LANFENG: JAPANESE PLANES RAID ON LOYANG
thrown
POPE'S MOTTO
In two of these cases, there were Ports Reuter's special correspon- But how is peace made impossible. stated to be, six men aboard the dent with the BEF
At not by ignoring the claims of pirate'' junk, and in the third case The Duke is setting aside a day Justice? "Opus Justitiae - pax;" seven men. The listing of anas soon for B special visit to the peace the fruit of justice! this is carried, and the details of be- Memorial to the Indians.
Continued on Page 6 haviour of the pirates give rise to the belief it is highly probable that? the same pirate craft was respon- sible for two or even all three of the piracies reported.
SHOT IN LEG
The first case, which was re- ported to the police yesterday, was of a piracy that occurred two HSUCHANG, HONAN, October 29 (Central) Chinese weeks ago: Lau Kam-chuen, 44, attacked Kaifeng on the night of October 21. Fighting who made the report, was shot in took place at Tsaotun in the suburbs. Subjected to Chi- the leg and left Queen Mary Hos- pital only yesterday after more nese assaults from the east and the west, the Japanese lost.
than a week. over 130 men.
The
a
only $10.
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CREAM OF THE R.A.F. PERSONNEL IS AWAITING
...
Such an offensive, in thelp view," might be apported by- German troop and air move- ments in the West.
INCREASING ACTIVITY IN NAZI LINES
PARIS, Oct. 29 (Reater)—Mil tary observers see discerning signa of increasing activity in the Ger man lines which may be a prelude to another offensive similar to that of Oct. 16 and 17.
In the past few days German | raiding parties have been doubled and especially so twelve miles east of Moselle and east of Barregue Mines.
-The German artillery, too,, has been stronger, more widespread
Although bad weather prevented
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THE ORDER FOR ACTION
LONDON, Oct. 29 (Reuter)-If Germany's aerial might and more systematic. is unleashed the R.A.F. here is likely to take a smashing, and probably decisive, action in the first week against aerial reconnaissance it is known "His report states that the piracy German military objectives, writés Reuter's special cof-that extraordinary movements ef On the night of October 18 Chinese raided Lanfeng occurred in the vicinity of Ping respondent with the RAF. These may be troop concen- German troops aij going on behind station on the Lunghal Railway, 27 miles east of Kaifeng. Hol, in Blas Bay, and that thetrations, naval or air bases, or munition factories—much the German defences. The Japanese guards were totally annihilated and the pirate vessel was a three-masted
depends on what the Germans may invite by their own plan water tower at the station was destroyed. A section of junk. There was very little money of campaign. the railway at Hanchwang, a village west of the station. aboard his own vessel, and he lost
An essential element of reduced to was wrecked.
the minimum com- Eighty-eight bombs were, While engaging in frontal
The pirates threw overboard the Whatever plan we adopt is patible with essential information ANNUAL DINNER craft in a raid over Loyang tack the enemy's rear. Caught in Chul-kan, 32, who made the second no time shall be lost. It is
dropped by 13 Japanese air-clash, Chinese sent troops to at mast and ears of his junk, Wong that, once the order is given, required.
The potential power of re- tallation by the German. Air the pincer moverent, the Japan-report, told the police his sail was intended that the enemy shall
Force is not underestimated OF H.K. CHINESE yesterday morning. ese suffered over 100 casualties and cut, and the, rudder and four cars be so crippled in one direction enemy machines came from lost four army lorries. Japanese from his boat were dumped into or another that the initiative
but Britain's rate of aircraft Yuncheng in south Shanst.
production is, fast overhauling the sea. reinforcements were later called in MANUFACTURERS”
can be pressed home.
Germany's present strength of Traffic on the Nanking-Shang- from Anpe, 59 ralles northwest of
WOLFRAM ORE
Ready for instant action now, if Arst line and reserve aircraft. hal Railway was disrupted on Fri- | Paotów. UNION
necessary, pilots and crews of day as a result of the tearing up
He lost a cargo of pigs and wol- squadrons at advanced positions it is expected that the Allied Air Once the war in the air begins fram ore, valued at $1,400, and France and others at home, who Arma will be commanded by a managed to reach land at Lam would strike the first blow, are the British officer who will occupy & Tong using boards from the junk cream of the R.A.F. personnel. HUKWAN BESIEGED
as paddles. The piracy occurred
position similar to that of Gen. Until the order is given, and Chinese troops have reached the sel was last seen sailing in the nearer than it was last week, it is
off Kwo Chau, and the pirate ven- there is no indication that it is say Gamelin over the Allied forces in immediate suburbs of Bukwan, a direction of Aberdeen..
important that neither men nor Every squadron here is seasoned town about nine miles southeast of
Another piracy was reported by planes shall be wasted. The in- with a sprinkling of Dominions Chung Tai-lee, who tells a story activity of the past few weekston pilots, two or three to half a dozen that his junk was attacked at a the Western Front is easier to in each case. Whether they come point two miles south-east of Mirs understand when regarded in that from Australia, Canada or South Bay. The pirates having again light.
Africa they all know how to ty picked on a poor junk, made away Reconnaissance over the enemy hard and well. with only some $15.
lines are being continued but it is
Chungfang, on the north bank of
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by Chinese guerillas of 500 metres the Sintslang River, in north Hu- The annual dinner of the Hong-of rails west of Wangting, 13 miles nan, was recovered by the Chinese Kong Chinese Manufacturers' Union northwest of Boochow was held at the To Yuen Restau-
Repairs were done by engineers rant West Point on Saturday evening, when representatives of under the protection of Japanese some 200 member concerns gather- troops sent from Shanghai,
ed to listen to Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, chairman, who gave a review of the Union's activities during the
past year.
FIGHTING IN SUIYUAN
Changchih in southeast Shansi and are ring into the town.
Supported by two field pieces. several hundred Japanese troops from Paotow, attacked the Chinese The Japanese were defeated in Mr. Ip said that the Union had entrenched at Taillang, a small an engagement at a suburban vil grown from a mere handful of town 43 infles northwest of Paolage, sustaining heavy losses and members to 231 in three years! tow, in southern Bulyuan.
retreated into the town..
the field.
Continued on Page 7.
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