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4-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GENERAL
Soviet Complaint Against Sweden: OIL TANKER MYSTERIOUS
Unemployed Being Forced To Fight
STREL. NETS FOR U.S. HARBOURS"
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'SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. (Havas)-It is reported that the JB. Navy will soon be installing all important American harbours with steel nets against sub
marines.
War Review In House Of Lords
HELP FOR FINLAND: ECONOMIC POLICY
A
CRITICIZED
LONDON, Jan. 17 (Beuter)—
short discussion fallowed Lord Stanhope's war review in the House of Lords, which was Identical with Mr. Chamber- lain's speech in the Commons.
HELP FOR FINLAND. Lord Snell urged quick and adequa.e help to Finland and as- serted that I the Finns were beaten. the s.rategical position of Europe would
be
In Finnish Army
SCANDINAVIAN
PRESS ON RUSSIAN
PROTEST
MOSCOW, JAN. 17 (REUTER). ACCORDING TO THE SOVIETS, SWEDEN IS FORCING HER UN- EMPLOYED TO FIGHT IN TAF FINNISH ARMY.
The Moscow Radio says that Sweden is reducing her public works and promising high pay and unemployed fight for Finland "on other inducements to make her
the advice of other poweri“
In a special Swedish broadcast. Moscow Radio app's'ed to Swedish workers to refuse to hip Finland
FIRM REPLY
LONDON, Jan 17 (Renter)-The Scandinavian press basks up its Governments in their firm reply to the Soviet protest,
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A Stockholm pao r savs den's foreign policy determined
anywhere Stockholm "*
MORE WARSHIPS & BIGGER ARMY FOR U.S.A.
Testimony Before Naval & Military Committees
EXPLODES, BREAKDOWN DISAPPEARS AT SEA
U-BOAT VICTIM
(Reuter)-
BRITISH VESSEL TAKEN TO BILBOA: FIRE ON BOARD
PANAMA, Jan. 17 (Reuter)~~Uko of Britain's latest Treighters, the Merchant Prince (5,265 tons) · was
OF S.W. COAST LONDON, Jan. - 17 Coast Guards on the south-west roast Jesterday afternoon saw an oll tanker suddenly burst into fames.. Lifeboats put "aut, butį the ship speedily broke in haired Into Bilboa by the British and disappeared, and it is under-steamer California Star, after she stood that a patrol boat rescued had mysteriously broken down 800 the crew.
FIRE ON BOARD -NAME UNKNOWN
While the vessel was driftin "The tanker's tonnage is estimat-hopelessly as a result of the break 000 dollars will be needed by 1945ed at 8000, but her name is un-town, a fire suddenly broke out in order to complete the U.S. Navy's known. current and proposed construction. programme, according to Admiral of Representatives Naval Commit stark's testimony before the House
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (Reuter) -Now warships costing $2,276,000,-
.ICG.
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ARMS FUND
miles out at 'sca.
among some wood, stored on deck A watcher from the shore de-and was only extinguished after
to be a clares that he saw what seemed five hours
submarine beside the
docmed vessel.
{ "Meanwhile, the Secretary · for
War. Mr. H. Woodring, appearing. before the House of Representa-U.S. SUPREME COURT tives Mitary Affairs Committee, APPOINTMENT appealed for the Committee's sup-j port for new arms tunda.
The British Consul-General at alboa is conducting investigations. The captain of the Merchant Prince commends the conduct of his crew.
SHIP RUNS AGROUND. DARWIN, Jan. 17 (Reuter)—The British steamer Merkur
(5,952 WASHINGTON. Jan 17 (Reuter, ons), bound for Melbourne from Up to this winter, our Army-The US. Senate confirmed the Singapore, ran around on a corat reef on the North Australian coast has not been an Army in being"" President's
The ninety passengers on board "swe-safd Mr. Woodring adding that such Frank Murphy, Attorney-General. nevern Army as oppose the one on to the Supreme Court, and Mr. are safe and a vessel has gone to
'n paper would enable America Robert Jackson as Attorney-Gen-her assistance
pak with authority for peace."oral in his place.
immediately A Norwegian paper blandly says. altered and probably to the most "There can be no question of the
grievous disdvantage 01 this Scandinavian countries not being
country.
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neutral or otherwise, because, ac¬ He highly welcomed the re-cording to the Soviet Government. ference to help by the "Dominions. Russia is not at war with Finland." India and the Colonies, which even A Dan'sh paper says: The now, he thought, was insufficiently only thing that remains unanswer-
realised
Lord Snell, considered that the Government's economic policy Was wrong and that it would have to be shortly reviewed
Lord Crewe also hoped for Gov- emment help to Finland as far as possible
ed in the Soviet note is the demand for the censorship of the press, which will be impossible in Sean- dinavia, as no Scandinavian wants to live according to Bolshevik principles -
He disagreed with Lord Snell's ITALY INCLUDED
suggestion that the change of war Secretary-ship was due to militatv pressure on the Prime Minister. 'Speaklrig from experience. he would generally hesitate to believe' It was possible
Dyke Breach Closed
IN NAZI VISA REQUIREMENTS -
ROME. Jan. 17 Hava-The! Geman authorities have extended
nomination
R.A.F. PILOT DESCRIBES
ATTACK ON U-BOAT
LONDON, Jan. 17 (Reuter) → An R.A.F. pilot of a plane of the Coastal Command has now given his own story of the bombing of a U-Boat in the North Sea on Monday,
The R. A. P. plane was or patrol duty, when a U-boat was sighted at a distance of a few miles. The pilot was having a snack at the time and heard his gunner shout "Look!"
DROPPED BOMBS
He looked in the direction of
Mr.
ROYAL FAMILY BACK IN LONDON
LONDON, Jan. 17 (Reuter) — Their Majesties the King and Gueen, with the two Princesses, ... returned to Landon from Sandringham, where they have been staying since just before Christmas.
PRIVY COUNCIL
The King held a Privy Council at Buckingham palace and handed
Coincidence?
TWO DUTCH SHIPS SUNK IN TWO
SCARES!
'AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17 (Reuter)– An odd coincidence is the subject: of much unofficial comment here. During the last Lowland scare, in November, the Dutch ship Sliedrick was sunk. Promptly on the heels of the present tension. the Dutch vessel Árendskerk has been torpedoed by a Naal U-Boat. NO COMMENT!
A London message states that the German wireless yesterday
Mr. Oliver Starley his seal of office afternoon broadcast the" news as Secretary of War.
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of the sinking of the Arendskerk.
pedoed by a German submarine...
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Sir John Reith, the new Minister The master of the Arendskerk, the to Italian citizens the regulations, the pointing finger and saw what of Information, was sworn in and announcer said, had reported that which the Government, since the seemed to be a rowing boa; on the both was received by the King in his ship had been stopped and tor- beginning of the war. have ex-horizon with 日 tran of foam audiente ercised age nst the entry of behind it. After a few moments, as foreigners into the Reich. So far he gave his plane full throttle, he Italians were the only foreigners was sure it was a U-boat, permitted under almost peacetime LOYANG, Jan. 17 (Central)-The visa requirements, while from now boat crash-dived and the plane As the plane approached, the U- dyke breach at Kaomlaotsal on the Shuang Po River. In Tushthon they will be compelled, as the dived down on it dropping its others, to submit to careful in-bombs, They seemed to fall very vestigation and to accept Berlin's close and a great splash of water decision regarding visas.
followed the explosion.
District, 28 miles south-west of Kaifeng, In Northern Honan which was responsible for the in- undation of over 400,000 mow of tand during the flood disaster in 1838 was finally closed on Janbary 10.
NO APPEARANCE
A little later a greenish brown patch, with bubbles, spread over
Anti-Epidemic Project the position where the submarine
For Fukien
dived and although the R. A F. machine remained on.
the spo CHUNGKING, Jan. 17 (Central) for some time. the U-boat was not A two-year project for he pre- seen again.
Mr. Wang Kwang-hsien, "Direc~ tor of the Honan River Conservancy: Bureau, nas summoned the magis trates of six hsten along the River to a conference to discuss measures vention and suppression of ma-l for dredging the River for navigalarla and bubonic plague In Fukien tion. The Honan Provincial Gov-with the assistance of the Central | einment has bern petitioned to Government was ratified at the appropriate $250,000 for this pur- 448h meeting of the Executive'
Yuan yesterday.
nose.
JAPANESE MILITARISTS TRY ΤΟ JUSTIFY INDO
DUTCH MILITARY MISSION IN ITALY
AMSTERDAM, Jan, 17 (Hava8) ------
A Dutch Mitary mission, headed
Ey Major-General Hasselmann, re- cantly arrived in Italy and is at present studying the Itakan war industry with a view to placing (m- portant orders for the Dutch Army,
Intimidation
In The North
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DESTRUCTION
Reports Of Despatch Of Arms & Munitions Denied By French
Prime Minister, Mr. Neville' Cham- betişin, referring to the Far East, said that the situation continued to be dominated by hostilities be- tween China and Japan.
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RECENT ACTION "While there are, as yet, ho definite indications, that might warrant any optimistic forecas; of a peaceful settlement in the near PARIS, Jan. 17 (Reuter)-The future, we
the have welcomed most categorical official denial is recent action by the Japanese giver to reports from Japanese Governmen in the direction of 24 Black sources that arms and munitions relaxing some of the restrictions 25 Buffalo are being sent to South China by which, from time to time, caused 26 Printer's the French Indo-China Kallway, difficulty and tension in their re-
lations with third powers."'* cluded the Premier
EXCUSE SOUGHT
It is stated that the insistence of these reports, which French circles are obliged to deny as re- gularly 115 they are circulated. appear to be the reflection of he desire of certain Japanese circles. particularly the military circles, to justify, by military considera- tlons, the destruction by aerial bombardment of the last railway communication existing with that! part of China which is free from Japanese occupation,
PRIPING, Jan 17 (Benter) Chinese reports from Tsinan state that, seventy-seven shops dealing in British goods, on grounds that they failed to register the goods, The statement, says that the have been fined sums of a quarter | greater part of the traffic on this Une consists of goods from the Unites States,
of their total value.
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Any shops failing to pay the fine
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