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U.S. HOLDS KEY TO PACIFIC SITUATION
Embargo On Supplies For Japan Strongly Urged
CHUNGKING, Nav. 19 (Central)—"Now, more than ever, Japan is thrown into rellance upon the United States. More than ever, we are becoming the great armourer and the econo- mic support of the Japanese military machine. More than ever, the United States hold the key to the Pacific situation," declares the American Committee for Non-participation in Japanese Aggression, of which Col. Henry, L. Stimson, former U. S. Secre- tary of State, is honourary chairman.
China War:
FIGHTING
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CHINESE SUCCESS IN WEST SHANSI SHIUHING, KWANGTUNG, Nov.
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The statement points out that Japan can no longer look to the British Empire, France or Ger- many. for the obtaining of sinews of war which she cannot possibly produce in adequate quantity her- se't.
"The same is true with regard to markets for an important part of her expert trade, upon which depends the financing of war pur- chases. To a much greater degree even than before, Japan will be
dependent upon the United States."
SELLING OF CHINESE CURRENCY
It is announced in the Chizette
CABLE
IF JAPANESE INVADE KWANGSI ANOTHER LARGE ENEMY FORCE WILL BE TIED UP
CHINA IN CORNER OF
under the Defence Finance) Re- gulations, 1939, that the following Chinese banks have been register- das permitted to sel; Chinese currency and to remit money to China subject to such Emits and on such conditions as have been notined to each bank individually: -China & South Sea Bank! China State Bank, Chu Hsin Chen, Fu- kien Provincial Bank, Kincheng Banking Corporation, Kwangsi Provincial Bank, Kwangtung Pro- vincial Bank,, Manufacturers Bank of China. Sun Co., Ltd., To Hang wing Lung. Wing On Co., Ltd.. China Trust Co., Ltd., Cheong Kee. Choy Kee, Foo Hang, "Hang Seng. Hang Shing Co., Ltd., Hung" Tak, Kan Koam Tsing Co., Shit: Cheong, Tal Wo Hing, Tang Tin Fook, Yien Yleb Commercial Bank, Ying Shun. Yue Lung, Yue To. Chan Man Fat, Kwan Shing. La Fuen. Man Cheong Mau Cheong, Cheong last
CHUNGKING, NOV. 19 (REUTER)-COMMENTING ON THE RUMOURED JAPANESE INTENTION TO INVADE KWANGSI PROVINCE, GEN. FAI CHUNG-HSI, CHIEF OF THE GENERAL- STAFF AND
GENERAL- CONCURRENTLY DIRECTOR OF ISSIMIO CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S SOUTH-WEST HEADQUARTERS,' DECLARED TODAY:
"Our "only. fear is that the Japanese won't invade Kwangsi. If they do, they will give the Chinese another chance to tie up another large force of the enemy in anothr corner of China's vast territory."
Kwangal
The well-known strategist said that the Chi- nese would probably adopt, in Kwants, the same tactica as they did in Shans) and North- Hunan, where the population. in co-operation with the army, destroyed All roads and evacuated with everything they could carry on the approach of the enemy.
In this manner. Gen. Pal Chung- declared, the Japanese would
Lee, Fat Cheong, Foo Kee, On Tal, be deprived of supplies and also Tang Kee. Yan Yue, and Yee the use of heavy, weapons.
The statement deplores the Sang.
situation that while American
pronouncements are in thorougn
opposition to Japan's unprovoked NOT TAKING
19 (Central)-Three hundred Jap-public, senetiment and diplomatic anese troops attacked Wongtong about ten mies upstream from Samshui, on the North River, o November 16. Two Chinese columns engaged them and drove them back.
attack upon china, the economic influence of the United States should be very preponderantly on the side of Japan
"The excuse that if the United
Chinese raided Slutong station on the Canton-Samshui Rallway on November 11. While they were States embargoes war materials to setting fire to the Japanese bar-Japan neders will be transferred racks and supply 'depats, Japanese elsewhere does not have even the reinforcements arrived from degree of validity which it had before the outbreak of war in Sheungpa, a neighbouring station. Fighting continued till the follow-Europe." the statement declares. ing day, when the Chinese volun- tarily withdrew,
IN WEST SHANSI HINGTSI. Nov. 19 Central- Pushing further eastward from Puhsien, Chinese troops. In West Shansi, recaptured Huaicchen on
"The firm withholding of such support through embargo on war materials to Japan and perhaps through restrictions upon imports from Japan." the "statement con- more cludes. would lead even quickly now to the bogging down November 17. Another unit has of Japan's military machine and reached Heilungkwan, and is en-to the emergence of an indepen- dent China as a guarantee for our gaging the Japanese,
The Japanese retreating from own security as well as for futuże Slangning sulfered heavy losses peace in Asia."
when they were intercepted on the way. On the morning of November 17 they were challenged to close- quarter fighting at Hetallow,
No.
fewer than 100 Japanese, were kill- ed and five Japanese motor cars were destroyed.
CHAOCHOW SECTOR LIUWONG, KWANGTUNG, Nov.
19 (Central)-Under the escort of
MARTIAL LAW
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SIDES
Italy's Moves In Balkans
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COMMUNISM TO BE RESISTED ROME, Növ. 18 (Beuter)-An Italian
PREPARATIONS MADE Anticipating the Japanese in- vusion, it is now revealed that nifty-four political work directors, from various parts of Kwangsi, were recently summoned to Kwel- lin for a conference. After six days of discussion, these directors returned to their posts and began ishing forward their preparations for the struggle they expected.
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British
Attitude
To China
NO DIVERGENCE . ON THE ESSENTIAL
ISSUES
LONDON, Nov. 18 (Reuter) ---- Since the conflict in China began there has never been any doubt regarding the attitude of this country towards the essential issues, and it is not to be imagined that we should or shall diveREL from it. declares the Manchester Guardlan in a leading article this morning,
EXIGENCIES OF WAR ·
The newspaper adds that such steps as the withdrawal of our
SEARCH PARTY gunboats from the Yangtse and
ARRESTED
our troops from northern. China jare explained by the Government as due to the exigencies of the war.
political commentator SHANGHAI, NOV. 19 (Reuter)- stated today that Italy's diploma- A Shanghai Municipal Councji!
They are therefore irrelevant to the and political activity in the police search party, comprising of our general polley. Balkans must not be taken to in-a Danish probationary sergeant. J. On the subjects or the Chinese dicate that Italy is taking sides in O. Egeberg, two Chinese policemen silver deposits in Tentsin and the the present conflict.
and a female searcher. were ar Chinese national currency, the rested and detained by the Japan-Government stands firm. ese gendarmerie in the western. district at 12.30 p.m. today when they boarded a bus,
WILL RESIST
LONDON, Nov. 18 Reuter) Italy whl resist any attempt to introduce Communism in the Bal- kans as she did in Spain, states Rome Radio.
It adds that should any such attempt be made it will meet with an immediate Italian reaction no ess determined than Italy's ac- tion in Spain.
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NO CONFIRMATION
The party was about to arrest a Chinese suspect, who stated he was an employee of the "Special Muni- cipality of Greater Shanghai."
The Chinese called for help and the Japanese gendarmerie boarded the bus
and arrested the "police the party.
"It would premature and stupid a squadron of planes, 500 Japanese
LONDON, Nov. 18 (Reuter)—The The Municipal police and the launched an attack on Cheunglamat present but the time will come
are at present report of Italian and Spanish re- Danish Consul are trying to effect klae, in the Chaochow Sector, on later. The Nazis
а systematic plan of presentations in Berlin regarding their" release. November 14. The Chinese with following
the economic the importance attached by and defence works denationalisation
ruin against my people but they two countries to the Independence of Holland and Belgium, 's con-
advisers German military Toward evening upon the arrival wik fall"
firmed in Madrid but no confirma- Turkey are returning to Germany, tlon is obtainable f London.
reports Reuter.
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drew after their were destroyed..
counter-attacked.
of reinforcements the Chinese He added that Dr. Hacha has The Japanese now been confined to a village in were driven away the following the Bohemia protectorate which, as a whole, could be described as Hitler's biggest concentration.
day.
MEICHOW ISLAND
HACILA'S APPEAL " BERLIN, Nov. 19 (Reuter)--An
KWEILIN, Nov. 19 (Central)— } camp. Chinese troops attacked the puppet troops on Melchow Island between Foochow and Amoy, on the mom-appeal to Czechs to avoid distur ing of November 14. killing many bances was broadcast by President of them,
Eachs, according to a Prague d's- patch to the official German News
JAPANESE MUTINY
AN UNDISCLOSED PLACE IN Agency. SHANTUNG, Nov. 19 (Central)A President Hacha declared that. mutiny of Japanese, troops station-an "Irresponsible people" had been ed at Talan, a scenic town on the misled into "highly regrettable" Tientsin-Fukow Railway in Shan-actions "under the influence tung, 45 miles south of Tsinan, on enemy propaganda and incitement Nov. 3, is reported...
emigres."
The mutiny broke out as a re- Fresident Hacha is quoted as "sult of the rejection of their de-saying "that the Czech realm had mand for returning to Japan after been spared the horrors of war. long and strenuous fighting in A lesson in regard to its devastat- China. Many Japanese officers ing consequences can be drawn were killed.
from the Polish defeat,”
The riot was quelled by Jap- andise troops sent from Teinazi who put about 200 mutineers under arrest.
STUDENTS PROTEST
BELGRADE, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-- Students staged a protest against
Holding himself responsible, the the execution of Czech students
COMPLETE CO-ORDINATION OF ALLIED AIR STRENGTHS WITH UNIFIED COMMAND
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-Complete co-ordination" of the air strengths, in the operational as well as in the productive sphere, is believed to be the first aim of Great Britain and France, says Reuter's special correspondent with the BAF. la France
"This, I am sure, may be confidently assumed from the em- phasis placed on the news of Friday's historic meeting of the Supreme War Council
Congress To Remain Neutral
commanding officer committed and Police Guards had to be CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
suicide.
DESERTERS IN SHANSI
placed round the German Lega- tion.
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50,000 ARRESTS TALI, SHENS1, Nov. 19 (Central)
PARIS, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-Fifty -It is learned from reliable sources that 134 Japanese deserted thousand arrests have been made in "Shansi Septembr 20-31. There in Bohemia and Moravia alice included 53 in Taiyuan, 20 in Friday, according to a despatch Hsinhsien, and over 50 in Chih-from the Austrian frontier. sien,
Already An Economic World War
"Certain political personages" are also reported to have been
arrested.
SCOTTISH RAID WARNING LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-The air raid warning was sounded on the north-east coast of Scotland
ROME. Nov. 19 (Havas)-Al- th's morning and the all-clear was though the war is at present con- sounded shortly afterwards
No bombs were dropped and the aned to Western Europe it is nevertheless, already a world wir planes were just visible and were economically, stated Signor Musso-fiying very high
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CAMPAIGN
NEW DELHI, Nov, 18 (Beu- ter)-Malatma Gandhi de- clared today' that the Civil Disobedience. Campaign could not be indefinitely postponed. However Congress would remain neutral for some time in the hope that the Viceroy would" find some other solution of the constitu- tional problem.
He strongly denied that the Congress Party was a purely Hindu organisation.
SWISS TROOPS TO REMAIN ON DUTY
BERNE, NOV. 19. (Reuter) The Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army stated today that no Swiss troops would be kept in service a day longer than necessary, a
Unified air command, ̈ under a British officer, with a status similar to that of Gen. Gamelin over the Allied Forces in the field, is likely to be the initial step and I understand that an announcement to this effect now awaits the choice for the best man for the job.
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DUTCH SHIP SUNK
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passengers jumped into the sea. They had no time to gather their clothes or belongings.
The Simon Bolivar was built in Rotterdam in 1927 for Dutch own- ers und registered there under the Dutch flag..
The Admiralty announces that the mining of the Dutch passenger ship was a further example of the utter disregard for international law and dictates of humanity shown by the present German Government.
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Mines were laid without any natifcation in the Channel followed by merchant shipping, both British and neutral, and there is no doubt they were laid for the specific purpose of destroying such shipping.
CONSTERNATION CAUSED AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19 (Router) -The news of the sinking..of the Simon Bolivar, which spread rapid- ly among the Saturday night crowds in the cafes and restau- rants caused consternation here.
It was reported that 107 of the injured survivors have been taken to hospital in London," including Dutch, British and Norwegian passengers, many of whom ex- pressed the opinion that the Simon Bolivar did not strike a mine, but was torpedoed.
The officers of the ship, how- ever, stated that the vessel was struck on the port and star- board side, which suggested that the damage was caused by mines and it is believed that the minefield was laid over- night."
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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 19 (Reuter)
-A Danish correspondent in Ber lin says that thousands of Jews
Starvation
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IN HOPEI
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CHUNGKING, Nov. 19 (Central)
have been sent. to Poland fur-Over half of the population in 94
forced labour, working 12 hours! a day..
counties in Hopei Province have been driven to the verge of starva- The official German News Agency tion as a result of flood, according says that Jews in Poland are to be to Mr. Tsung Chun-jen, of the War restricted to ghettos.
Zone Party and Political · Affairs Commission; who has just returned to Chungking from an inspection tour to North China.
German liners, the Windhak and the Adolph-Woerman, sailed from The flood washed away more here unobtrusively "yesterday" for than 200,000 piculs of stored grain an unknown destination.
of the farmers, deprived them of They had been in Lobito kince their harvest and måde autumn the outbreak of war.
sowing impossible. The water still stands in many parts at more than ten feet high, Mr. Tsung, sald.
One reason for the departure of the two German ships from Tobito suggested is that they have gone to meet and give provision to the German raider which, sank the African Shell in Portuguese waters on the other side of Africa.
JAPANESE MORE ....
Taking advantage of the flood disaster, the Japanese military, ac- cording to Mr. Trung, started to Chinese conscriptable - bodied SHIP SCUTTLED
males in Hope for labour in "Man- LONDON, Nov. 18 (Reuter-chukuo In August when the Fifty-seven Naxi seamen and their food was worst, thousands were Captain were landed in a seaport conscripted from the Tientsin- in Scotland having scuttled their Pukow Railway zone and sent to ship when ordered to stop by a Manchuria. Each of them received British patrol
80 cts. in bogus banknotes per day."
Mr. Trung said that the first remittance of $300,000 from the Central Government for the relief of food sufferers in Hopel was insutilelent. He. hoped that further reflet. be provided.
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Among them, was a boy, aged 15, who, was clutching a black and white kitten. The crew waved cheerfully to the inhabitants,
LATVIAN SHIP SUNK LONDON, Nov, 19 (Reuter)-A Latvian cargo ship was sunk by a mine off Zeebrugge or the Belgian coast.
HEAVILY ARMED
stated that the captain and four LOURENÇO MARQUES, Nov. 19 of the crew were drowned, and (Reuter) The crew of the Africa some of the survivors slightly - Shell estimate that the German jared.
RADICAL CHANGE "The inspired statement that, in deciding to fight as one military and economic unit, the Allier aln Ato win the war in the shortest pos-
sible time may foreshadow a radi-It is learned that two other ves-raider came up at a speed of 20
sels were also damaged by minesknota. near the spot where the Simon Bolivar sank, but both succeeded in reaching port.
cal change in our aerial strategy.
"As yet there is no indication that the initiative for whole- sale, aerial, warfare will remain with Germany to decide, but, should it begin this winter, presumably independently of land action, the Aflies will wage It in complete unison."
CAPTAIN KILLED According to a survivor, the cap- tain was killed instantly on the bridge..
She was painted a battleship grey and was heavily armed with triple gun turrets with at least two seaplanes and a crew of 700.
· MAGNETIC MINE- COPENHAGEN, Nov. 19 (Reuter)
One of the ship's stewards stated-At the enquiry into the sinking
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)The the West Indies on Friday night, Simon Bolivar left. Amsterdam for
covered aufficiently to be discharg
About 80 of the 70 injured re-
ed from one London hospital this afternoon.
NO COMMENT AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19 (Reuter)
that the vessel was off the east of the Danish ship Canada in the The sinking of the Simson BolL-
"Meanwhile, plans are being coast when, without warning, a North Bea on November 11, . C&Dvar was detailed at length in the made to perfect preparation for terrific explosion shook ber and tain Knudsen,' the master of the patch press but without comment, jajoint attack on Nazi military everyone realized that the situa- | vessal, insisted that the anking for. Holland is determined to
objectives should the order betion was serious, but there was no was due to a magnetic mine.
great panic. People ran to their given."
1 RESCUED CREW ¦ life-boat stations, some stopping
LONDON, Nov. 18 to collect a few belongings.
Twelve members of the
DALADIER REPORTS WAR MEETING
maintain her neutrality
Information avaludis indicates (Reuter) that the majority of the passen– A little time after the Arat ex-
Crew of gers were British travelling, un plosion, there was another violent the 11,000-ton Norwegian tanker Barbados, Trinidad,
There were also a number of explosion. A steward expressed "Arne Kjoede," which was sunk the opinion that the first explosion without waming by a Nazi U-Dutch passengers, including en PARIS, Nov. 19 (Reuter) The was caused by a mine and that the boat five days ago, were landed ployees of the Batavian Petroleum French Prime Minister, M. Daia-second was caused by another at a northern British port today. Thanks to Italy, he said,” the war
Company going to Surinam, and. He added; however, that there dier, reported to the Council of which was linked to the first by a
It will be recalled that 23. of the Coracao, je o had not spread to the whole con-
PARIS, Nov. 19. (Rauter's Special would be no release of men as long Ministers today on the meeting of chain.
crew were rescued last Tuesday, Other passengers included Jewish tinent but had already upset the War Service)-There was a brief as uncertainty existed regarding the Allied Supreme War Council GERMANSHIPS BAIL
when it was announced that 17 refugees, from: Germany and other economic and social activities of air raid alarm In the Lille area war developments in Western in London. He empiraalsed the LOBITO (Portuguese West Afri-were still missing,
Central European states travelling "all countries."
this morning.
Europe.
happy results of the meeting. ca). Nov. 19 (Reuter)-Two 'big In Oslo today it was officially to Chile,
Uni.
LILLE ALARM