HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Future U.S. Trade Relations With Japan Dependent On Nipponese
Attitude To Interests Of Americans In China
Suggestions For Temporary Commercial Arrangement Deferred In Washington
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Reuter)-The course of com- mercial relations between the United States and Japan, after the expiration of the present treaty on Jan. 26, will depend on Japan's attitude to the rights of Americans in China
"This statement was made to Mr. Horinouchi, Japanese Ambassador in Washington, by Mr. Berle, Assistant Secre- tary of State, in the State Department yesterday.
In an interview; lasting half an hour, Mr. Berle told Mr. Horinouchi, in reply to questions put by him, that the expiration of the Treaty. did not of itself imply any changes in the import duties and tonnage rates. Further commercial relations would, however, depend on the deve- lopments in the Far East."
Japanese Drive
e
On Suihsien Collapses
on
FANCHENG, Jan. 24 (Central) The fresh Japanese drive points north-east of Sufhälen, in STATUS OF MERCHANTS north Hupeh, completely collapsed Mr. Berie added that Japan's on January 22, according to a suggestions for an exchange of field message received today. notes defining the status of the Remnant Japanese fleeing in trade relations must be held open. two directions, are being mopped Regarding the status of Japan-up by Chinese forces. A group of .ese merchants now carrying on some 1,000 Japanese "at Satsekang.. business in the United States, un- south of Kaocheng, has been re- der the provisions of the expiring duced to less than 500 men, while Treaty, Mr. Berle said, such ällens another column of 5.000 men is "may be permitted to quality as being surrounded in the vicinity visitors, temporarily admitted for of Chenwushan. business or pleasure."
Further applications for the ad- mission of Japanese nationals desiring to enter the United States! temporarily, for business or blea- sure, would be considered in the light of the existing law applicable to visas for temporary visitors.
1 HOPE SO"
Before the State Department re-
vealed detalls of the interview, Mr. Horinouchi told the press that he expected that an Imperial decree would be issued today stating that the duties on American exports will not be raised.
Asked if he expected trade between Japan and the United States to proceed as usual after Friday. Mr, Horinouchi replied: "I hope so."
S'HAI PROFESSOR ATTACKED
CHUNGKING, Jan. (Central) - Ms.
24
Tu Kun- shan, professor, was fir'd át by two thugs at Rout Mer- cie:, Shanghai yesterday morning. Ele WAR slightly wounded in the thigh and
arm.
The assailants who escap- ed in a hired" moto: car, alleged to be ang Ching-wel's special service
were
men:
Six artillery pieces were seized by the Chinese from the retreat- ing Japanese.
Kaocheng, according to a re- port from Slangyang, has return- ed to Chinese hands.
.. The Japanese losses are said to be the heaviest in north Hupeh since their first debacle last year.- One estimate places the number!
of Japanese killed at 4,000, and the wounded at 7,000.
LANDING AT HSIAOSHAN KWEILIN.
It is now confirmed that Japanese landed at a point forces have north of Hsiaoshan; on the south bank of the Chientang River; in north Cheklang, opposite Hang- chow,
Jan, 24 (Central)-
The Japanese made the landing in more than 80 armed launches shortly before midnight on Jan. 21. in driving' snow.
Severe fighting between the Japanese and the Chinese defen- ders has developed. The Chinese are holding their positions to the south-west of Hsiaoshan city.
ITALIAN SHIP FIRE DISASTER: 107 VICTIMS
GENOA.
Jan. 24 (Reuter)- The latest lists published by the owners of the Italian liner Orazio. Indicate that the number of
NORWEGIAN SHIP Victims of the fire disaster total
SUNK: 5 MISSING
107, of whom 47 wele passengers and 60 crew.
OSLO Jan. 24 (Havas)-The- Norwegian freighter, Sydfold, 4,000 or torpedo. Nineteen have been tons, was sunk off the coast of rescued. but it is feared five are Scotland today either by a minemişsing.
Second British
Destroyer Sunk In Week
LONDON, Jan. 24 (Reuter)
The loss of the British des- troyer flotilla leader, HM.S. Exmouth, which was com- manded by Captain R. S. Benson, by a mine or torpedo, presumably with all hands. was announced by the Ad- miralty early this morning.
This is the second British des- troyer to be sunk within a week and the afth since the outbreak of war. It is the first case in which there are no survivors.
HMS. Exmouth's normal «com- plement is 175 officers and men.
Capt. Benson, from 1937 to 1938, commanded the Eighth Destroyer Flotila on the China Station.
H.MS. Exmouth is a sister ship to H.M.S. Grenville, which was sunk this week in the North Sea.
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41,000 CORPSES
PICKED UP IN.
SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Jan. 24 (Reu- ter)-Despit the existence of numerous charitable s cities, the staggering total of 41,000, corpses of poor Chinese were picked up "insid: the interna- Lional Settlement and French Concession in 1939, according to figures released by the Shanghai Public Benevolent Society, a Ch ́n ́se charity or- ganisation.
They we all buried in th cemetery here 3:4 aside for paupers,
"POLISH NATIONAL
COUNCIL
M. Paderewski Made President
was
PARIS. Jan. 21 (Reuter}- M. Paderewski
elected President of the Polish Nation- al Council yesterday at its first meeting here. The Council will be an advisory body to the Polish President, until is possible for an elected Parlia ment to meet again In Warsaw.
MESSAGE TO POLES
Its first act was to pass a motion of sympathy with Finland.
M. Paderewski gave a message of comfort to the Polish people now suffering from German aggressors, Poland, he said, was mortal and her final victory at the side of the Allies would bring liberty again to her oppressed people.
CABLE
Miss Joan Smalley and Mrs. 'Whitham in a happy mood at
Kwanti last Sunday.
WESTERN FRONT
Rabbit Wire Saves French Detachment
LONDON, Jan. 24 (Reut^)— Reuter's special correspondent with the French Army says that a rab- bit wire saved the lives of a French advanced detachment in the snow of a mountain post on the Western Front.
NAZI PATROL
A patrol of 50 pleked Germans, outnumbering the French by about four to one, attacked and succeed- ed, under cover of darkness, cutting barbed wire, defences in four places, despite French fire.
The Germans advanced through the gaps with assurance. until suddenly and unexpectedly they ran against a fence of rabbit wire, the presence of which they were ignorant.
SHOWER OF GRENADES Simultaneously, the French threw a shower of gretiades as the enemy, who had halted and were
nonplussed French artillery then
put down a barrage which dis-
located the raiding party with heavy losses.
WAR COMMUNQUE PARIS, Jan, 24 (Reuter)-A French War" communique issued last night stated that there was nothing to report!
BITTER COLD ON WESTERN FRONT
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ALL PRECAUTIONS
BEING TAKEN LONDON, Jan, 24 (Reuter) In view of the approaching anniversary of the Shanghai War of Jan. 28. 1932, the Jap- anese military authorities are reported to be enforcing mar- tial law in the surrounding occupied areas, such as Nan- tao. Chapel and Woosung from tomorrow.
A
MOBILIZATION ORDERS Meanwhile, the Police authori-
ties and volunteers in the Settle-
ment and Concessions have re- celved mob'lsation orders for Jan. 29, when all the principal roads will be barricaded and searches for arms instituted.
Local Chinese public bodies are stated to have decided to suspend all forms of public amusement on Jan. 28.
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Westem Front is as cold as in
Finland but reconnoltring lights were made by Allled panes.
AT WAR OFFICE
LONDON, Jan. 24 (Reuter
Land activity was confined to The Duke of Windsor visited the pairal and outpost clashes. and War Office yesterday afternoon today's War communique says in his capacity as Liaison Officer that one of our posts along Lau- with the French Army and had ter repulsed enemy units with an interview with
Gen, Bir which it came into contact. Edmund Ironside.
GEN. HERTZOG'S DEMAND FOR
WITH NAZI
SEPARATE PEACE WITH GERMANY REJECTED
CAPETOWN, Jan. 24 (Reuter)-The Parliamentary galleries were crowded when General Hertzog moved a
against Germany, to be ended and peace restored.
BARBAROUS PERSECUTIONS BY NAZIS IN POLAND:
PERSECUTIONS resolution that the time had come for the state of war
He said that he would consider it a gross neglect of duty if he did not seize this first opportunity to atter a
CATHOLIC PRIEST'S REPORT warning and insist on a peaceful settlement.
ROME, Jan. 24 (Reuter)-Monday's broadcast from the Va- tican. denouncing the German prosecution of Poles in German- occupied Poland, was followed, y esterday by the publication of a
com-
Occupation Of Galicia Is Denied
(Belter)----
LONDON, Jan. 24 Both the Germans and Russians "The bitterest passions are! (Hertzog's) ease was a
deny that German troops LÉTE being stirred and the pre- plete distortion of facts.
occupied part of South Galacia,
vious opportunities to discuss
General Smuts maintained that which is in Soviet-occupied Po- the unjustified and overwhelming land. peace terins were rejected;
Germany Moscow officially states that the all this is leading to Arma-attack on Poland by
caused the WAT and drew loud German officers seen there were geddon, and responsible peo-cheers when he added that the only arranging for the repatria - destitute and he foresees wide. Ple must feel this dishonour-facts were precisely contrary to tion of Germans spread starvation in the coming able state of international General Hertzog's proposition A report from Moscow, however.
* report giving a full account of the persecutions.
The report was submitted to the Primate of Poland" by a Roman Catholic Priest, who escaped after being imprisoned.
He declared that the order of the day in German-occupi- ed Poland was the barbarous persecution and destruction of everything Polish and Catho- lic."
UNPRINTABLE INCIDENTS The priest gives a description of incidents which are almost un- printable. One of the less re-
spring.
"JUST IN CASE” -
lunacy should be ended.”
He describes how Polish familles General Hertzog cuntended that are herded into railway trucks in the accusation that Germany aim freezing weather and then takened at world domination was com- far out into the country and told pletely unfounded and unjust and to fend for themselves,
concluded by saying that the de- claration of war was the greatest The inhabitants in Posnan sel-blunder ever committed by, South voiting passages concerns the con- dom undress and keep a small bag African statesmen. It had made ditions under which Roman Catho- of personal belongings near them the Union sink to the level of a ic Priests had to live in prison.
vassal state of Europe. They had to carry out the most disgusting tasks.
In the Warsaw prison" are hundreds "of priests. All churches in Poman are closed. and the most beautiful church of all has been turned into a "concert hall
all the time, "just in case."
The Priest also makes the charge that the Germans are trying to destroy the Polish race by sterilising young boys and girls.
Among many accounts, 1s one of the case in which a Priest was forc- ed to watch twenty mass execu- LOOTING AND FILLAGING “tions in the public square at one The Friest says that looting and į time. When he could bear it no plilaging and the export to der-longer and cursed the Nazis, he many of all food and clothing was beaten with rifle butts and have left the Polish population | then shot.
AMAZING SPEECH General Smuts said that. General Hertzog's speech was one of the most amazing he had ever heard and, with South Africa at war, the former Prime Minister had no word to say in support of his own coun- try, but presented the enemy's' case.
He said that General. Hert- tog's speech read like a chap- ter of Mein Kampf (laughter) and the presentation of hila
NOT AN EXCUSE
states that the Germans have He said that Herr Hitler's peace persuaded the Soviets not ta offers were made after the "mar-change the guaze railway run- tyrdom of Poland" and Versailles ning from the Rumanian frontier should not be made the excuse for through that territory to German- the domineering policy of Herr occupied Poland in order" that Hitler during the past few years. German rolling stock could use the line to transport-Rumanian off to Germany.
"Versailles. had ceased to be ablet on Europe. Herr Hitler is a blot far more dangerous than Versailles. Something quite new, has appeared, and that is the spirit which has given rise to the war now IBS- ing against a bully and for the extermination of man,"
SITERII
OUT OF QUESTION General Smuts added that a seperate peace was now quite out
If this is true, it goes a long way in confirming the belief that a new bargain has been struck between the two countries
This railway is the only means of transport from Ruman'a to Germany while the Danube is frozen
at the question and that Parla- afirming the resolution of Sep- ment's decision was irrevocable. fember relating to the severing Amid cheers an amendment, in- of relations with Germany, was troduced by General Smuts, re-adopted
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In India
SERIOUS CRISIS WARNING
NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (Reuter)→ Mr. Jinnah, President of the All- India Moslem League, declared that the British Government must not yield to threats and by one party.
This was in reference
Gandhi's recent statement b which he said that the Viceroy's speech contained the germs of # statement, but, that there were many "i" to be dotted and “is” to be crossed..
3.ST
GANDHI'S HOPES This, said Mr. Jinnah, implied. that Mr. Gandhi hopes for surances that the Governors · ana Governor-General will not use their special powers.
Mr, Jinnah said that if the guarantees to the minorities were not implemented, it would create a serious eriny in India,
He appealed to both Moslerns and non-Moslems not to have coercion anything to do with the Congress
celebration on Friday of the In- to Mr. dependence Day..
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