HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GREATER VIGOUR IN WAR DEMANDED BY
ALLIED PRESS
More Energy Required In Taking Initiative
LONDON, Mar. 19 (Reuter)-There is unanimity in the British and French press in asking for greater vigour in the prosecution of the war by the Allies,
The Times asks whether British diplomacy and war. policy concurred with making the greatest effort.
Finns Take Everything Of Value From Hangoe
EVACUATION ACTIVITY
LONDON, Mar. 19 (Reuter)-A message from Hangoe says that desperate last-minute efforts are being made by the Finns to re- move everything of value from this bomb-wrecked.. half-deserted city before the Russians march in to take possession on Saturday. Evacuation must be completed by midnight on Friday.
Reuter's correspondent "When I drove here from Helsing- fors. the last section of the road was blocked by lorftes loaded with household goods and furniture.
1
Bays:
PROSECUTION OF
PUPPETS TO MEET IN NANKING
NEW REGIME TO GOVERNMENT OF CHUNG KING
Chins
FIGHTING ON KWANGSI
Purchase Of U.S. Planes
14
BORDER
For Allies
REPORTED HITCH IN NEGOTIATIONS ARE DENIED
PEIPING, Mar. 19 (Router)— WASHINGTON, Mar. 19 (Reu- Wang Keh-min, head of the Peter)-Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Sec- plag Provisional Government, and retary to the US. Treasury, denied four other Priping Government reports that negotiations between delegates, In addition to two the Anglo French Purchasing "Are we hitting as often as delegates from the Japanese con- Board and American aeroplane trolltd Mongolian Government manufacturers have been suspend- we can and whenever we
and Major-General Morioka, ed. can? Public opinion, so far
Director of the North
NOT AFFECTED from relaxing into
com- Liaison Office of the China Af- He declared that the negotiations placency, would like to see a fairy Board, who recently succeed-were still proceeding as far as he more dynamic current run-ed Lieut-General Kita left for knew and they would not be af- ning through the Franco-Nanking yesterday morning to fected by the forthcoming Con- British effort."
attend the Central Political Congressional enquiry into foreign LABOUR ORGAN'
ference opening there on Mar, 20, purchases of aircraft, The Dally Herald, commenting at which the Central Government The reports were also discount- on Nazi diplomatic activity. asks of China is expected to be finally ed by th British Purchasing Com- whether Britain and France, are decided.
mission. doing all they can to keep diplo-
Nevertheless, some observers feel
NEW REGIME
CHINESE TROOPS
ATTACK SHEKKI KWEILIN, Mar. 19 (Central)--A erlissimo's communique Issued by the Gen- Provisional Head- quarters for the South-West slates that Japanese troops yesterday reached the neighbourhood of Lingshan, 60 miles north-east of Yamchow, in West Kwangtung. near the Kwangst border, where they are encountering stubborn Chinese resistance.
once..
TOWN RECAPTURED On the south bank of the Wa kiang River, the Chinese
north-west of Tatang. Japanese again recaptured Shih Erh Tan,
communications on the Nanning- Yamchow highway have been cut.
Nachen and Tamheitsun
About fifty Chinese civilians at on the South Kwangsl border were killed when the Japanese passed through the villages.
COUNTER-ATTACK · SHIUKWAN, Mar. 18 (Central)-`
matic initiative on their side. It is learned from "Provisional that the forthcoming investiga-Chinese troops have been counter-
"They must not just sit down Government" circles that, the new tion and the reported uncertainty and watch the gyrations of Herr Government organisation will over the exact types the Allies will von Ribbentrop. With all the closely follow that of the Chung-be able to buy in the contracts resources at their command they ring Central Government, which may affect the speed with which must take the initiative and keep it is intended to supplant.
the Allies can secure planes.
it."
In Paris, the consensus of opinion is summed
the tip by | Figaro, which says that what Govern- matters is to have the ment prosecute the war with the last ounce of energy.
ANOTHER · ASPECT NEW YORK, Mar. 19 (Reuter)
The clamour for action is seen in another light by
the New York
"Hitler."
Herald Tribune:
"Scenes of pathetic activity in Hahgoe are typical of what is says the paper, would win an happening.in other ceded areas in
important victory if the Allied Finland. Civilians and soldiers
High Command is forced into are working hard in emptying hasty or l-judged action." houses and piling furniture in the roadways. and efforts are being made to ensure that nothing movable will be left for the Rus-
·sians."
MARTIAL LAW IN
MR. WELLES. NOT INTERMEDIARY
WASHINGTON, Mar. 19 (Rens ter)The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Bull, denied in a press interview yesterday that Mr. Sumner Welles was ari intermediary between Euro- pean Powers.
Mr. Hull emphasised that Mr. Welles' trip was purely to ascertain facts and he had strictly kept to this.
"NO PEACE
PLAN":
LATEST DIAGNOSIS OF
SOVIET OCCUPIED HITLER-IL DUCE TALKS
FINLAND
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 19 (Reuter)"No peace plan but
Russian-Italian rapprochement and a Russian-German- Italian re-arrangement of Europe" is the latest diagnosis of the Hitler-Mussolini talks by well-informed Dutch cor-
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 19 (Reuter) Martial law has been proclaimed in those parts of Finland already occupied by Russian troops.
This follows closely on the news respondents in Berlin. that the entire Karelian Isthmus
Official German circles will be whole of the Danube Basin area along Lake Ladoga will be still go no further than to say would be solved by a vast trans fortified with the Voroshilov Line that speculations are wrong migration of peoples;
M. SVINFHVUD „
The and, at the same time, to op-; ROME, Mar. 19 (Reuter)- M.] Svinfhvud. former Finnish Prepose energetically any ten- mier, was received in audience by dency to minimise the im- the Pope yesterday morning.
portance of the event.
NAZI ANXIETY
LONDON, Mar. 19
(Reuter)-
The German Press confines itself to eulogising the Axis" solidarity The German radio and press are and pointing out alleged uneasi- playing up the Scapa Flowness in Faris and London.
rald for all they are worth The Wilhelmstrasse, however, is and are now asking" Germans openly talking of the desirability
to believe that most of the Royal Navy has been destroyed. It was stated in London that this lying propaganda reflects the Nazi anxiety to convince the Germans that at last the Nazi Governmen, has begun to justify its existence.
NAZI TROOPS RAID FRENCH
OUTPOSTS
PARIS, Mar. 19 (Reuter)--Ger- man troops yesterday carried out several raids on French outposts on a twelve-mile front between the basin forted by the Moselle and the Nled rivers.
of better understanding between Russia and Italy,„. -
HITLER'S PEACE PROPOSALS TO POPE
NEW YORK, Mar. 19 (Reuter) -A Rome dispatch to the New York Times says that Herr Hit- ler's peace proposals, which the Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop gave to His Holiness the Pope, are understood in Vati- can circles to comprise the fol- lowing eleven points:
General, simultaneous and immediate disarmament land, sea and air;
A
on
return to the Four-Power Fact which would divide the zones of influence, in Europe and
The defenders raked the Ger- inaugurate an anti-Bolshevik po- mans with withering Bre from au- Hey with the Idea of liberating tomatic arms and were backed by Russia.
if necessary,
support
my arms, from artillery from Communism: strong which drove the raiders back.
French patrols were also active in this sector..
PARIS, "Mar. 10 (Reuter)-A War communique says, that there' was nothing of importance to re- port...
A war communique issued in Parls yesterday stated that" there.
was nothing to report.
DEATH IN HOSPITAL
Czechs, Slovaks and Magyars to constitute a tri- partite state allied to the Reich for 25 years with Ger- many enjoying certain privi- leges in industry- and com- munications: Austria to remain Reich;
CHAMBER IN SECRET SESSION
PARIS, Mar. 19 (Reuter) The Chamber went into a secret aes- slon this afternoon to discuss the International situation and the repercussion of the Finnish-Soviet peace
The Government motion that the debate should be held tha secret session was carried without division and it is expected that M. Daladler, Premier, will be in a position to reveal interesting facts about the meeting between Mus- solini and Hitler.
R.A.F. GUNNERS TO BE GRANTED
COMMISSIONS
LONDON, Mar 19 (Reuter)- The rapid increase, of the Royal Air Force has brought a demand
for more air-gunners and, for the
first time in the history of the Service. commissions will be granted for the duration of "the
war,
Men between the ages of 22 and 25 will be accepted
In
the
A Danube Federation to be constituted as a sort of union to equalise the Interests of large and small states, the Federation Lo comprise of Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia. Rumania, Bohemia, and Slo- vakia:
The award of commissions re-
attacking the Japanese at Shekki, inflicting many casualties
In East Kwangtung. Chinese troops advancing Co Chaoan (Chaochow) have reached the northern suburbs,
Church Bells For Metal Reserves
BERLIN, Mar, 19 (Reuter)—All church bells will be handed to the State "is order to create metal reserves necessary for the conduct of the war over a long period," according to an, official decree.
An ersato (substitute) metal. and adequate compensation, is promised.
Copper used for certain parts of a building must also be regis- tered.
LIFEBOAT INST. GOLD MEDAL Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber Lifeboat. which has rescued 189 lives since the out- break of war, has been awarded the much-prized Lifeboat Insti- tution's Gold Medal for conspi- cious gallantry in rescuing the whole of the crew of the Grimsby trawler Saint Gurth which were driver ashore in gales.(BW$).
SOCIALIST PARTY. MANIFESTO
CHUNGKING, Mar, 19 (Central)
cognises the vital part of air-gun--The headquarters of the Chinese
ners play when a bomber is at- tacked by enemy fighters.
COMPARISON WITH R.A.F. ACTIVITIES LONDON, Mar. 19 (Reuter)-The
activities of the RAF, compare very favourably with those of The status quo in the Balkans their equivalent." says the Man
to be guaranteed! and
Free customs transit for Italian goods through Djibou- ti; free passage of the Suez Canal
on the expiration of the Convention' In 1945; new status for Italians in Tunis.
GIVEN TO WELLES
chester Guardian.
NAZI CLAIMS » With regard to the death of a civilian and slight damage to a warship in Saturday's raid, the
that paper says
the German claims are as fantastic as usual...
The raid did little to compare Mr. Sumner Welles was also with the RAF... raids on German given these terms by Herr von naval bases. The Germans have Ribbentrop who is reported to not yet found it possible to launch have told everybody that there any air action comparable with would be a great spring offensive the RAF attacks on Wilhelm if the peace effort falled.
shaven and Brunsbuttel. when several direct hits were made on a pocket battleship from a height jof a few hundred feet.
According to one: theory, Mr. Welles has convinced Signor Mussolini that there is no hope for such a peace plan and. Il Duce, therefore, went to see Herr Hitler to induce him to modify the plan con- siderably.
WOMEN WORK ON: NIGHT SHIFTS
National Socialist Party in Chung- king has issued a manifesto em- phatically denying that it supports Wang Ching-wel.
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EXPANSION
OF SHIPBUILDING
OF PROGRAMME
WANTED:
MINISTRY CRITICISED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
Compensation For Workmen
SCALE
LONDON, MAR 19 (REUTER) —THE SHIPPING
AND SHIP INCREASE IN BUILDING.POSTITION WAS REVIEWED. IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, yesterday, when Mr. E.. Shinwell, (Opposition Labour); OF PAYMENTS
LONDON, "Mar. 19 (Reuter)—An programme, de-increase in workmen's compensa."
in moving a motion criticising the "Ministry of Shipping and de- manding speedy expansion of the shipbuilding clared that the Minister entered into agreements with neutral shipowners for the use of their vessels at rates much higher of Commons yesterday afternoon.
tion was announced in the House than were received by British shipowners.
"It is rather warming that we peting ta have lost more than 750,000 tons market. of merchant shipping in the first
neers.
as they could for the building of the merchant navy.
the
TEMPORARY SCHEME ⚫international Sir John Stron, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bald that Govern- Sir John Gilmour mentioned ment proposed to supplement the six months of the war besides that loans of £4,750,000 were compensation in the case of com- many vessels damaged," he said. Recognition of absolute re-
granted in respect of the 55 new plete disablement by 5. for the There were at present Jigious freedom, after emigra-
over vessels and referred to the pro wife and 33. for each child under 16,000 men unemployed in the posed scheme of compensation by 15 years of age tion of all German Jews, un-
shipbuilding and ship repairing which owners of ships lost by der the direction of Britain
FRENCH PRESS "NO"
"ANKARA, Mar. 18 (Reuter)-industries, as well as 20,000 eng-war risks would be given
There will also be an increase to Palestine,
cash in the scale of cases of partial of Italy to
PARIS, Mar. 19 (Reuter)-An With a view to ensuring the coun-“
to- the equal amount for which disablement. Ethiopia and France to Mada-
energetic "no" was returned by try's preparedness to face any
He understood that 70 per cent. the ship was insured before the gascar:
the press of all Parties to the eventuality, the Government is to
It is a temporary scheme for of shipbuilding at present was on war plus a sum to be held in theeting the cases of hardship be- Absolute freedom of trade and latest German peace offensive and extend the dally working hours
naval account and suggested that trust until the owner signed a fore the Royal Commission now access to raw materials, close con-this, it is thought, will likely fore- from 9 to 12 in all industries. the Admiralty should be request contract for replacement or tacts with the United States and shadow the tenor of the Chamber factories, workshops, mines and
the sitting to consider workmen's ed to release as many skilled men ship." facilitation of German and "Ita-debate later in the day.
other departments, whose outputs
compensation. an emigration:
It is generally agreed that this require increasing. peace offensive is accompanied by The new law will apply to the threat that, if the German women, and children, as well as advances are refused, an alliance to men, and women, and children between Germany. Italy and Russia will in future work on night
ill follow
shifts which was hitherto strictly "CONJECTURE”?
forbidden. LONDON, Mar. 19 (Reuter) - dent Poland, composed primarily | According to the Rome Radio
DEATH OF MR. THE COLOURS 19
of the central areas, with about Bignor Mussolini will probably 10,000.000 people: Gdynia to be a receive Mr. Sumner Welles this
H. SIDEBOTHAM
a reasonable bargain to the set up a League Commission, at Mr, R. A Butler, replying, sald ̈PARIS, Mar. 19 (Havas)-It was free Polish port; free trade to morning, and adds: “What was LONDON, Mar, 19 (Reuter) The mutual advantage of both parties some suitable neutral place, to that Mr. Woodburn's ultimate officially stated tha: the next Foles through Danzig; the Folish discussed between Il Duce and the death was announced here of the and that it was inevitable that provide now an opportunity for alms were no doubt widely desired, contingent. of men of twenty frontier to be determined by the Fuehrer during the two-and-a-well-known journaliat. Mr. Herbert the rates for neutrals, should be public investigation by all new but Lord Halifax was not convinced Tears of age, will be called to the basis of a plebiscite controlled by half hours cordial conversation in Sidebotham, who was particularly higher than those for British pondble for conditions of per that the precise method he pro- colours on April 15. Some will be International commissions; the the Brenner Pass, is still a matter known for his articles in the Bun-ships, because, in chartering neu manent world peace and for a posed would be the best in the
minority problems of Poland and for conjecture."
day Times, signed "Berutator."/ trals, the Government were com-judicial examination of the chief circumstances.
A message from London states that Major Frank Vernon, well- known theatrical producer, died of pneumonis in a B. E F mill-, tary hospital, according to Reu ter's special correspondent the B. E. F
with
FRENCH CALL TO
sent to North Africa:
Restitution Within 20 years of the German colonies, or equal colonial compensation, or, at least, protection for German emigration in deter- mined areas in Africa; d Reconstruction of an indepen-
When
World
Peace Comes?
Bir J. Gilmour, Minister of Shin- ping, paid a tribute to the men of the mercantile marine and the LONDON, Mar, 19 (Heuter)-A economic, territorial and racial fishermen
and the very valu- World Peace Commission was sug problems which made for war and able concributions made by the gested at question time in the to discover whether there were Empire, particularly India,
House of Commons yesterday by Mr. principles for a pe eral settie- He said that Government was Arthur Woodburn (Labour), who ment of internatidal disputes satisfied that the agreements asked the Prime Minister whether which could generally be accepted with peatral owners represented the Government was prepared to by all nations?