"Hongkong Daily Press"--Feb. & 1940.
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ASAMA MARU
WELCOME CHINESE NEW
YEAR EVE SURPRISE IN PEIPING: CHEAP FLOUR
PEITING, Feb. 7 (Reuter)—An unexpected and welcome surprise Chinese New Year Ev was sprang on the Chinese po- pulation this morning when a quantity of flour seized by the local authorities from hoarders was placed on sale at the com- paratively low price of $12 per bag.
GOOD BUSINESS AT GLOUCESTER
ROAD FAIR
Roaring business was done yesterday at the Chinese New Year Fair, which closed late this morning when there were. still a few late customers who had met completed their pur- chases.
The flour was stacked up on s' vacant plot of ground in the cen- tre of the city and sold under po- lice supervision.
S.M.C. To Float 10 Million Dollar Loan
SHANGHAI, Feb. 7 (Reuter)-It
is understood that the Shanghai
Large queues lined up and pa-Municipal Council is proposing to tiently waited their turn to pur-float a loan of $10,000,000.
chase provisions. The quantity
Full details are at present un-
was not nearly sumcient to tide avaliable but Finance and Com- the population over the holiday marce believes that the proposal but at least it means that some will be made at the forthcoming families would not" go short.
annual ratepayers.. meeting. loan will be a short term loan of 10 years at 95-bearing an interest or 8 per cent
PRINCIPAL CAUSE
After the New Year. It is anti- cipated that hoarders of flour, who have been one of the princi-"
TOTAL ASSETS
The Fair, which lasted ten days.pal causes of the acute situation,. was visited by a large number of will sell out bringing the price Council's total assets foreigners as well as Chinese. and down considerably for the time many were the purchases of being. curios, which went at low prices. sandalwood, Ivory articles and lac-. quer ware.
Chinese visitors were mainly in- tent on buying flowers, fruits, red gift envelopes, incense, preserved meat and other things without which observance of the festival would not be complete.
The variety of goods that were on display this year was of a wider range
Help China's
The
The loan will be secured on the specific security offered will be but the
royalties on surcharges received from the power and gas.com- panies which will be earmarked and credited to a special account for interest payment and amorti- sation.
Wounded This ton
New Year!
་།
han previous CHARITY SHOW AT
years, and in spite of the compe- tition offered by the Chinese Manufacturers' Union exhibition Happy Valley, stallholders at the Fair reported good returns.
KING'S AT 11 Å.M.
The second gala charity per- formance of Messrs, Warner Bros. notable picture "Juarez" with Paul Muni and Bette Davis, will take place at I am today, the
project supported.
for
a
The Finance and Commerce. commenting on the loan, said: "These terms should prove parti cularly attractive to all neces sarily maintaining the funds of
the local currency and there is no
BOPTICIA
Single Copy: 10 cents, Per Month: $3.00,
INCIDENT: WHITE
PAPER ON THE CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN BRITISH AND JAPANESE
Lord Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, who attend- ed the New Zealand centenary .celebrations as the official re- the United presentative of Kingdom Government.
ECKFORD APPEAL AT END
GOVERNMENTS
All Legal Rights Are
OF MONTH Reserved By Britain
SHANGHAI, Feb. 7 (Reuter),——
Bir Atholl MacGregor, Chief Jus- tice of the Hongkong Supreme Court, 13 expected; to arrive at Shanghai at the end of the month to form the Full Court with Sir Allan Mossop, Judge of the B- tish Supreme Court of China and Assistant Judge P. Grant Jones, to hear the appeal of Private Eck- ford, of the Seaforth Highland- ers, against the death sentence passed on him on Jan. 11 when he was found guilty of the murder of Lance Corporal James Davies, also. of the Seafortha
doubt that it will be fully sub- CHINESE ATTACK CANTON
acribed."
BRITISH SHIPPING
INCREASE
«LONDON, Feb. 7 (Retter)-In
LONDON, FEB. 7 (BWS)-CORRESPONDENCE BE- TWEEN THE BRITISH AND JAPANESE GOVERNMENTS ON THE REMOVAL OF THE GERMAN CITIZENS FROM THE ASAMA MARU WAS ISSUED AS A WHITE PAPER YESTERDAY EVENING.
THE CORRESPONDENCE ENDS WITH THE BRITISH COMMUNICATION, IN WHICH, AS ANNOUNCED BY LORD HALIFAX AND THE PRIME MINISTER IN PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY, HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT STATED THAT, WHILE RESERVING ALL THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS, THEY ARE PREPARED TO RELEASE NINE OUT OF THE TWENTY-ONE MEN REMOVED FROM THE ASAMA MARU.
In its first communication handed to the British Am- bassador, Sir Robert Craigie, on Jan. 22," following the incident, the Japanese Government maintained that the universally recognised usage was that a belligerent power could demand, on the high seas, only those subjects of an- other belligerent who were actually embodied in armed forces. The Japanese. Government stated they could not
OUTER DEFENCES: BATTLE but regard the British action as a serions unfriendly act
REPORTED 17 MILES NORTH
voluntarily destroyed the Canton-Hankow Railway south of YUANTAM, Feb. 7 (Central) The Japanese have Sunkai, 17 miles north of Canton, to forestall a Chinese
attack.
A lawn bowls match played at entire proceeds going to the In-conexion with the announcement Government House yesterday afternational Peace Hospital ternoon, between a team, led by wounded Soldiers in China,
that 25,000 tons of British ship H.E the Governor, and the Prison
p'ng has been lost by German air Department resulted in a win for war, langely from Great Britain last week, it is officially disclosed
betore the
attacks and other enemy action "the latter by 78 shots to 52
Mme. Sun Yat-sen, General Wu that the British Mercantile Marine other outer defence points of Canton.
The Chinese have made attacks at Sunkai, Kunylu and Ten-chen and others will be pre-has been steadily increasing at
An engagement took place
Ten Nations At Hague
sent.
4
The four units of the Hospital are in urgent need of funds for their work and 'the sponsors hope Uhat today's Chinese New Year performance will be as sticcess- THE HAGUE, Feb. 7 (Reuter) ful as the gala premiere held The representives of ten na-on Tuesday.
INSPIRED NAZI PRESS FINNISH SUCCESSES Berlin Denies Rumours Of Mediation In Finland
the rate of 200,000 tons a week by at Muklong on the Sunwul-
construction. purchase of new foreign shipping and capture of enemy" vessels,
and
of
PLAYS UP
Hokshan highway on Monday. Yunnan Rly.
Bombing
Chinese accurately. shelled "the Japanese, who were finally driven back to Konginoon.
FRENCH PRESS COMMENTS
PARIS, Feb." (Reuter)-Discus-
was
against Japan.
SAME POSITION
The British Government re- plied in a Note from Sir After showing that it is clear. Robert Craigie to Mr. Arita, from Article 77 of the Cerman dated January 27, in which Prize Ordinance that the German they said, "EM. Government are making a voyage in order to Government regard persons who profoundly regret the inter- put themselves in the service of pretation put on their action the enemy arined forces" as in pre- by the Imperial Japanese cisely the same position as "mment- Government and avail them-bers of the enemy armed forces," selves of this opportunity to the British Note proceeds, "The state there was no unfriendly Imperial Japanese Government ⚫action whatsoever in the take the contrary view about the exercise of their right as a Germans now in question. They belligerent to stop and search are making à claim which the Ger- The appeal for support in
neutral shipping at sea.
man Government could not make Hongkong is the first ever made
for themselves. The Imperial Jap- tions Britain, France, Austraila, The Very Rev. Bishop R. O.here. It has been made neces-
ATTACK REPELLED
"The exercise of this right does anese Government can hardly ex- Turkey, Portugal, Belgium, Hol- Hall and Miss Posamund Kung, sary because of the dificulties
SOMEWHERE IN HOPEI, Feb. 7
not, in the view of HM Govern-pect such claim to be admitted by land, Norway, Switzerland and daughter of Dr, H. H. Kung, will of receiving foreign remittances (Central)-A Japanese attack near
ment, imply any slight upon the HM. Government in the existing Argentina-are meeting today at give, in the course of the per- under war conditions. Every Chi-Ningtsin, in south-east Hopel near
honour or national dignity of the circumstances. It may add "that the Hague Palace to establish new formar.ce, an account of the work nose and every friend of China the Shantung border, completely sing the Japanese bombing of the been amply demonstrated in the ernment, in the present war, has neutral State involved and this has the practice of the German Gor- body for co-ordinating the economic of this important institution, in- s urged to attend.
falled last Sunday. Outflanked by train on the Yunnan Haiphong present and preceding wars." and social activities of the League itlated by the International of Nations ag recommended last Peace Campaign and sponsored announced
The forthcoming marriage is the Chinese, the invaders took Railway on Feb. 2, Le Tempe says
gone even beyond the provisions 01 Richard Tnnes light, sustaining over 100 casual- that events like this are difficult The Note recites the facts of the of their Prize Ordinance." autumn in a report dealt with by the China Defence League, Groudwater, "chief officer, care of ties..
to reconcile with the policy re.case pointing out the British Gov-
Mr. Arita replied on Feb. 1 ex- by a committee presided over by which 13 outstanding among Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Mr. 8. M. Bruce, Australian High China-ald projects organized by Co., and Gertrude Gardner,
JAPANESE LOSSES
cently announced to the Diet by ernment were aware of the or- pressing great pleasure at the re- Commissioner in London,
Mr. Arita, who emphasised that ganised attempt by the German gret expressed in the preceding friends abroad...
FANCHENG, HUPEH, Feb. 7 No. 22 Stubbs Road.
Government to secure the return British Note at the profound re- the Japanese Government (Central)-Japanese forces in the
of German mercantile "taking every possible step to Kinzshan-Chungstang
marine sentment aroused in Japan by the area in Central Hupeh have suffered fur-of Third Powers
protect the rights and interests officers and men from America
incident but stating that he held SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE
fundamentally different opinions ther reverses.
To the north-east of Chung-settlement of the incident will out that some of the Germans in tion to the British contention be "It is hoped that a "prompt In the Note, the fact is brought from the British Government on the legal arguments. In contradic- slang, the Japanese unsuccessfully confirm this doctrine," says question formed part of the engine- enunciated the view of the Im- fully attacked the Chinese posi- the paper.
room staffs of tankers and their perial Government. The removal tions at the foot of. Tähung Mountain,' A
special knowledge of Diesel engines of enemy nationals from neutral MODERATION counter-
rendered it practically certain that ships engaged on peaceful traffic stroke completely dislodged the
URGED
they were intended to be employed on the high seas has essentially enemy east of Yangtzuchen.
Special to the HK. Dally Press
on return for submarine service.
been regarded as illegal in Inter- PARIS, Feb. 7 (Havas)-The in- The British Government were national Law in general." Japanese units, which launched Quential daily Le Temps urges aware of at least four parties of
The Japanese Government alko an attack on Chingchira, Feng-moderation in regard to the Yun- these men who were due to leave contested the British arguments shufiing and other points to the nan Railway Incident
America almost simultaneously of based on the German Prize rules. south-west of Kingshan on Feb, "The affair is serious, indeed, which the first party, of about LONDON, Feb. 7 (Reuter)-3, have sustained serious losses but everything must be done to fifty, sailed on the Asama Maru. Six-Point Feace Plan alleged to are paring to wiadras avoid aggrevating it by hasty in- of the afty, 13, omcers, and eight PRIME MINISTER'S have been drafted by Marshal As a result of a Chinese thrust terpretations, Certain elements technical ratings were removed by Herr Hitler was announced by the over 100 Japanese were killed, fapan pottey and hostile occiden-mainder, though trained seamen Hermann Goering and approved by at Huangchiatsi near Chungsiang are attempting to damage the the British man-of-war, the re-
STATEMENT TO New York radio, quoting a Stock-several taken prisoner, and 170 tal powers do not miss the op- but without special qualifications,
COMMONS ON holm report.
ASAMA MARU rifles and "five machine-guns portunity for propagating,alarm- being allowed to proceed. „ The points were:
seized. Japanese reinforcements ing rumours at the moment when
RIGHT OF SEARCH
LONDON, Feb. 7 (Henter) im-In the House of Commons yesterday, 1-No country to claim indemni-trom Tungchiao were intercepted public opinion is especially ner- "It is this action which the Im- Mr. Chamberlain, reporting jen ties:
and decimated.
perial Japanese Government con- the negotiations proceeding be A Japanese unit of about 400 "France has rights which test the legality. They do not, as tween the British and Japanese men was almost completely wiped will be defended by diplomatie E.M. Government understand the Governments in connection" with out by the Chinese near Chung-
action, according to modali- position, dispute the legitimacy of the removal of Germans from the ties suitable to France's digni- the exercise of the right of visit Asama Maru, said that the cor ties as a geart power.
and search by a belligerent war- respondence exchanged between SHABL, Feb. (Central)-AC-anite proof to the contrary is ob-
"On the other hand, until de-ship on the high seas."
the two Governments would be leader, passed a resolution urging sire not to harm Italy's feelings,fore the Treaty of Versailles;
To an examination of this issue laid before the House Last night. the Dovernment to take all ne-aumption of activities by Herr Al-
but simultaneously note the re- 5.-A plebiscite in Austria under day. All the 300 odd Japanese Prospects of a most loyal and last-
other Japanese transport yester-good faith must not be doubted. Note is devoted.
It was found, upon investiga- cessary steps to help Finland. fred Rosenberg, racial theoretician Austro-German-Franco British
tion into the training Significance is attached to the re- and violent anti-Bolshevist.
were either killed
and It is pointed out that in hand- antecedents of the twenty-one supervision..
ing settlement of the incident ing the original memorandum to Germans removed from the Jap solution since the question of ald
drowned... to Finland was reported to have months, Herr Rosenberg delivered Commission to decide on the dia Bhanghal to Hankow was shelled the incident. Le Temps further that Article 47 of the declaration military service, said Mr Ciram-
For the first time in many 6-A German - Franco British The transport steaming from
the British Ambassador, the Vice-anese vessel that some of them Recalling the circumstances of Minister, for, Foreign Affairs stated were been discussed at the meeting of an official address at the Nazi posal of Cxecho-Slovakia and Polish by Chinese artillery at Wusueh,
relatively unsuitable for the Supreme War Council on Mon- Party's Political Education Comlands in order to attain a peaceful thirty miles
SAYS: "The firm impression re of London constituted the basis of berlain, and while reserving all -day.
above Kukiang mittee.
agreement.
Several direct hits were scored,
was that the local the Japanese arguments and, the their legal rights, the British Gov Japanese military authorities act Note declares, "The Declaration of ernment were accordingly pre- edon their own initiative. It London, never having come intopared to release nine of those would not have been the first force, is not binding on any Blate men, who would be handed over
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7 (Havas)—Official quarters in Berlin este- gurically deny the ramours of eventual German mediation in the" Finnish-Russian conflict, which were circulated simultaneously with the arrival in Berlin of the German Ambassador in Moscow and the Minister in Helsinki:
Official quarters declare that the conflict is no concern of Ger
Six-Point Nazi Peace Plan?
many, which will carefully avoid direct or indirect implication in it.
Meanwhile, foreign observers are somewhat puzzled at the attitude of the inspired Nazi press, which is playing up the Finnish successes.
The Kuusinni Government is never mentioned here, while the Finnish Consulate lately received 2-Economic problems to be
FRANCE WILL AID
•
FINLAND the German Exequator, thus show-solved by a Conference;
Chinese
WITHDRAWAL
ing that normal relations prevail 3-The Sudeten region to be chaho on Feb. 4.
PARIS, Feb. 7 (Reuter)--The with Helsinki. Radical Socialist Group of "the
Observers consider that the at-
come German;
4-Poland to cede to Germany
TRANSPORT SUNK
YOUS, -
Chamber, of which M. Daladier gtitude may be dictated by the de-all territory held by the Reich berate Chinese shelling sank an-tained. the Japanese Government's almost the whole of the rest of the
aboard
ABOLISH THE COMMON BOWL-IT SPREADS T.B.
Or
exist."
ceived here
T.B. time since the beginning of the and cannot be felled on against to the proper Japanese authorl-
Gino-Japanese incident."
H.M. Government as an authority" ties in due course.