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POPE'S
XMAS
EVE ALLOCUTION
WAS STERN CENSURE ON RULERS
OF STATES: COMMENT IN
THE NEW YEAR
HOLIDAYS
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BRITISH PRESS
Efforts Of Pontiff And President Roosevelt May Spare World More Misery
LONDON DEC. 27 (BRITISH WIRELESS) - THE
POPE'S ALLOCUTION TO THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS ON XMAS EVE RECEIVES CONSIDERABLE PROMIN- ENCE AND APPRECIATIVE COMMENT IN THE BRITISH PRESS.
The Daily Telegraph says, "Many years have passed since there came from the vatican so stern a censure on the Rulers of States and such direct and precise declara- tions on international policy. The effect of world opinion will be widespread and potent. Plus XII strove to the last to preserve the peace of Europe against Hitler's fury and, when Poland lay ravaged, he declared his faith in her re- surrection and denounced the system of Hitlerism.
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POPE PIUS XI
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RED CROSS
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IN SUIYUAN: COUNTER - ATTACKS
MOST SUCCESSFUL
Many Important Points Recaptured
CHUNGKING, Dec. 27 (Reuter)-According to Chinese reports, Chinese forces in Suiyuan, on Christmas Eve, broke through the Japanese lines and reached the suburbs of Kwelsul, capital of Suyuan, where fighting is going
on.
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After the occupation of Paotou by the Chinese on December 21, Japanese troops at Tachingshan rushed re- inforcements to the town, but the detachments were am- bushed by the Chinese.
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The Japanese, supported by Sinyang, important town on the artillery and aircraft, are Peiping-Hankow Rallway, in Bouth said to have launched a Honan, is raging unabated. counter-attack on December 24, but are reported to have been driven back.
COUNTER-ATTACKS
Two more strategic points in the suburbs, Wuchiatun and Lichlachat, have been regained by the Chinese. Northwest of Singang. a Japanese forces counter-attacking near Yuho, In Kwangtung and Kwingsi, the Japanese are at present counter-its vanguards were annihilated.
was defeated, More than 400 of
attacking, Chinese state.
dispatches
After the occupation of Chingan, to the north-west of Nanchang, by the Chinese, the Japanese forces at Fengsin are said to Lave
The Japanese at Tuho directed a Chinese on Christmas Day. fierce artillery bombardment at the
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"ATTACK REPULSED Japanese counter-drive at
officially stated by the Vatican counter-attacked and recaptured Changtalkwan, 14 miles north of that the Pope has sent money to Chingan city from the Chinese fol- Sayang, have also been repulsed. the Finnish Red Cross while the flowing street fighting. The Chi- A Japanese military train struck Swiss Federation has sent 100,000 nese are at present holding qut in a Chinese mine near Tingshangho, Swiss francs to the Red Cross for the hills to the south-west of the on the Felping-Hankow Railway
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use in Finland.
Two volunte. Red Cross corps are leaving Switzerland for the Finnish front
POPE'S VISIT TO KING
drives to
town.
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GEN. NISHIO IN CANTON
SHIUKWAN,
Dec. 27 (Int'l)—
ANGLO - SOVIET
RELATIONS LONDON, Dec. 27 (BWS) - There is no truth in the report that the British Ambassador in Moscow has been in- structed to advise repre- sentatives of British firms in the U.S.S.R. to leave that country or that early diplomatic rupture in the relations between Britain and the U.S.S.R. Is con- templated.
No change has occur red in the relations be- tween Britain and Russia.
PRESIDENT MOSCICKI
Moscicki In Switzerland
"Now his Christmas allocution opens with the con- demnation of a 'series of acts incompatible with interna- tional law, natural law and the most elementary feelings of humanity.'
**The atrocities the announced by the Allies of the bloodstained soil of Poland war alms, which must be won, and and Finland he boldly de-the Fope's declaration of the con seribes as acts which call for dition in which he sees the only
THREE COLUMNS possible basis of peace." Divine vengeance."
In Kwangtung Japanese forces The first of the Pope's five con- the same
The Manchester Guardian holds
Its the north of Canton are report- view that the Pope's ditions for
ed to be pushing northward in three justice peace,
and
conditions for a lasting and just LONDON,' ec. 27 (Reuter)-Vat-columns in a counter-offensive. honour was that peace must assure the right of life and freedom of peace require freedom for Czechs. Can City announces that when One column is advancing north- the ward along the Canton-Hankow all nations, great and small, and Slovaks, Poles, Finns and Aus- Pope Pius XII for whatever has been destroyed trians, if it is their wish. Quirinal tomorrow, to return the Railway towards Tuantang and is Assuming personal direction of the The paper compares the Pope's recent visit of the King and Queen stated to have crossed the Pa River operations in Kwangtung and there must be reparation.
allocution with President Roose-of Italy to the Vatican, his suite on Sunday.
Kwangsi, General Toshizo Nishio, Thus, says the Daily Telegraph.
on his appointmerit will include Cardinals Maglione
Special to the H.K. Daily Press "the Head of the Roman Catholic velt's words
Another column is reported to commander-m-chief of the Japan- of a personal representative at and Granito Dibelmonte and
ese expeditionary force, is stated be moving towards Tsunghua, to
LONDON, Dec. 27. (Reuter) - Church tells his people in the Reich and others all over Europa the Vatican and bring out, the im-number of Roman Princes and the east of the railway, while the head of two more divisions,
to have arrived in Canton at the
FREIBURG (SWITZERLAND), Dec. 27 (Havas)-The ex-Polish WAR MATERIALS and the world that the war must portant point of similarity which other prelates holding high offices. third column is pushing towards
Lungmoon to encircle Tsunghus to have been held on
A military conference was said President, M. Moscicki, arrived this
Christmas morning from Rumania. PURCHASED IN
from the north-east.
Eve when directions were given to It will be recalled that M. In South-East Shans! the Chinese Lieut.-General Rickicht Ando, G. Moscicki was Professor of Chemis AMERICA
claim the occupation of Lichen opo. C. Japanese forces in Kwang-try at the Freiburg University for December 23 and Tungyangkwan tung. It is possible that General, many years early in the present the following day.
Nishio may fly to Nanning to give century when he was granted FIGHTING CONTINUES
personal direction of the Kwangsi 'Swiss citizenship. NANYANG, HONAN, Dec. 27 campaign and receive reports According to Bwiss law he is still (Central)--Fighting in and around from Lieut-General Iida,
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
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the method for bringing it
go on until atonement is made was expressed in each, namely, that the will to peace must be for the Fuehrer's crimes against humanity by German recognition. of the wrong done in Czechoslo- vakia and Poland and Finland. and the establishment of their freedom.
ONLY POSSIBLE BASIS
about..
The Manchester Guardian con- cludes. "If by their efforts the ¡Pope and the President can bring earlier that security, which we
Special to the HK. Daily Press LONDON, Dec. 27 (Havas)—Mr. Arthur Purvis, member of the British Committee for purchasing The Dally Telegraph concludes, are forced to pursue with arms. war materials fri the United States, "There is no substantial difference the world will have been spared stated that Britain is shortly pur- between the general definition more misery than it now realises." chasing important quantities of
planes and other armaments.
Mr. Purvis added that he was APPOINTMENT FOR ! most careful to eliminate the pos- MR. K. P. CHEN
sibility of bidding between Britain and France.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 27. (Inter- Overbidding against other coun-national)-Mr. K. P. Chen, who tries like Finland, Rumania and heads a Chinese economic mission Sweden will also be avoided.
Financial Leaders In Chungking
CHUNGKING, December 27 (Cen- tral)--With the formal inaugura- tion of the reorganised Joint Head Office of the "Tour Government banks in Chunking, with Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek as the director-general, the nation's före- most financial leaders are daily ar- riving in the wartime capital to assist in formulating China's war- time financial policy.
678 HOLIDAY DEATHS IN U.S. NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Reuter)- At least 678 persons met violent deaths. In the United States during the Christmas holidays of
in the United States, will shortly which 433 were traffic victims. leave the United States for China, according to banking circles.
with
COINS FOR H.K. LOST
BIG PREMIUM IN EXCHANGE SHOPS
It is reported that a large quan- tity of new subsidiary coins for | Hongkong was lost when the vessel in which it was being conveyed to the Colony was sunk recently in European waters.
The amount involved, It is rumoured, is $500,000 of ten cent coiris and $100,000 of five cent pieces. They were required to
meet the unusual demand for sub- near Chinese
BRITON RELEASED The banking expert will proceed
LONDON; Dec. 27 (Renter) —
'sidiary coins which is annually direct to Chungking, where he Information has reached in London experienced here may take up a government ap- that Mr.. G. G. M. Vereker, M.C.. New Year. [pointment. Mr. Chen has been for Counsellor of the British Embassy į Confirmation from official quar-
many years manager of the in Moscow, who was taken pri-ters was unobtainable yesterday.
Shanghai Commercial and Savings' soner by the Germans in the Bal-but the report of the loss has had
tic, has been released.
Rank
Reorganisation Of Nazi Propaganda Services In United States
SPECIAL TO THE HONGKONG' DAILY PRESS WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (Havas)-It is reliably leamed that Herr Theo Habicht, former Nazi District Chier in Austria-before the anschluss, has now been appointed State Under-Secretary at the Wilhelmstrasse with the main task of cleaning out and re- organising German propaganda services in the United States,
DOLLFUSS MURDER
Among recent arrivals in Chung- king, a latest survey reveals, were Mr. T. V. 8oong, chairman "of the Bank of China, Mr. Y. M. Chien, chairman of the Bank of Communi- cations, Mr. Yeh Chur-tong, gen-!". This German move is apparently eral manager of the Farmers Bank due to the recent trial of Herr It is recalled that Herr Habicht of China, and Mr. Sung Han- Fritz Kuhn, former leader of the personally organised the murder of the German-American Nazi Bund, now of the Austrian Chancellor, chang, general manager Bank of China.
in gaol for embezzlement, and M. Dollfuss on July 24, 1934, Both Mr. Yeh and Mr. Büng are which was a hard blow, for German but the failure of the Nazi putsch veterans in Chinese banking, and propaganda.
"ther, resulted in his disgrace.
are nearly 70 years of age. They It is believed that a "purge" of He now returns to a prominent called on the Generalissimo yester-the German diplomatic and consu- position in the Nazi Party follow- day, and reparted extensivelyonlar services in America, will also be ing five years of absence from pub the nation's financial conditions, made.
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In Swiss citizen..
World Told For First Time Who Is
Really Incident
Japan:
Ruling
And U.S. Trade
WINNING WAR
IS CONCERN OF ALL IN EMPIRE
the effect of placing all subsidiary LONDON, Dec. 27 (Reuter) -- coins at a considerable premium in The arrival of the Australia Air the exchange shops.
Force squadron Was commented Between $4 and 5 is being on by the British press this morn- charged as a premium for exchanging, pointing out the great value
Tientsin Treaty
"SHANGHAI, Dec. 27 (Reuter)-Commenting editorially upon the report from Washington that the Japanese Am- bassador, Mr. Horinoucht, stated that the Japanese Goy- ernment cannot make concessions to America for the pur- pose of effecting a new trade treaty without consulting the Japanese military authorities in China, the China Press, an American daily states: "This is the first time that the Japanese Government has told the world that it is really the Japanese military authorities who are ruling Japan.
"Is the desire to be friendly
ing every $100 worth in notes. of Australian help in the present with the United States the The normal premium is about $1 war. per $100.-
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desire of the Japanese Gov-
The Times says that the arrival ernment or their military au- underlines the warning given by thorities in China? Is it of
Nazi Plane Over Essex
Mr. R. G. Menzies, Premier or lästing value for the United Came In From
new
Australia, that the British Com.States to conclude a monwealth is one people and win treaty with Tokyo when their ning the war is the concern of all military authorities in China in the Empire,
North Sea
LONDON, Dec. 27 (Reuter) --- can momentarily upset the An unidentified plane flew over a
The paper adds that those in agreement by withdrawing number of towns in Essex today Germany, who are not wholly over-l'approval and support?'
and two other planes flew over the The power of the military au- Suffolk coast. There was shadowed by Hitlerism, see in the
no sir arrival of the Australians in writ thorities was fully demonstrated raid warning and no gunfire was
heard.
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in the Tientsin incident and the faflure of the Tokyo Conference The German aggression was
when the representative of the that the Western nations were too walked out in a huff.
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Police Court cases Leading article Hello and goodbye Legislative Council Radio programmes Finance, commerce
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The first plane was seen coming.
based on two false ideas. One was Japariese Army in North China from the North Sea near the
Thames estuary flying at a great "The same pattern of events height. It was hardly visible to may happen in regard to Amerithe naked eye and left a thin train can-Japanese riegotiations.
of white smoke. "Mr. Horinouchi's candid state- A few minutes later it flew over PARIS, Dec. 27 (Reuter)—A War ment merely prepared the mental another Essex town nying towards- communique states that there was outlook of the American Govern-¡the coast.
nothing of importance to reportment and people." during the night.
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It is thought by observers on the coast to be a 'German recon- naissance machine.