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FOREIGNER'S STORY OF KIANGWAN RUIN.
THE TAKAHASHI
MURDER: DARING VISIT TO
NEW BATTLEZONE
RUMOURS.
BATTLE AREA.
Alarm at Lunghwa BROTHER'S HOUSE A
and Nantao.
(Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, Feb. 12, 11.07 a.m.
The Japanese determination to obtain retribution for the murder of Captain Takabahi, may lead to the opening up of a new battleground, according to persistent rumours to-day. Shanghai, Feb. 12, 11,07 a.m. Except for persistent shelling, quiet prevalled on the battlefron's of Chapel and Woosung last night. No attacks were Jaunebed by either vice.
al-
There are persistent Chincar Tuthours that the Japanese drawing up a project for an tack upon Nantas and Langhwa because of the murder, off Lung- hwn, of Captain Takahashi, which has further excited the Japanese bitterness in their relations with the Chinese,
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
Should these operations be enz- ried out, it will mean that the Settlement will be between
I wo fires. Both Nantro and Langhwa are on the opposite side of the Settlement from Chapel. Nantao being a pupulons district between the Chinese City and the Whang- pro, Lunghwa being a little further up the river.
STRANGE SYDNEY
STORY.
KINGSFORD SMITH AS
POSSIBLE
CHIINA AIR CHIEF.
Wing
London. Feb. 12, Commodore Kingsford Smith may become the Chief Com-E mander of the Chinese Air Force. according to the Daily Herald. Sydney correspondent.
SHAMBLES.
SCENE OF SKIRMISH AND AN AIR RAID.
SEVERAL FOREIGN
HOMES WRECKED.
This picture aliṣws » Chinese machine-gun nest in the region of the North Station. The Chinese have held their positions in this region against a series of furious attacks, the Japanese having suffered heavily. It will be recalled that the Japanese occupled the Station without resistance on their first ad. vance into Chapel.
TO-DAY'S ERRAND OF MERCY.
FOREIGN WORK IN CHAPEI.
BRINGING OUT WOUNDED.
(Our Own Correspondent), Shanghai, Feb. 12. 10.10 a.m. Twenty-tour furel gem male up the rescue, party Mitich went. war-scarred Chape this
Chinese
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Shanghai, 11.07 a.m. SOME OF THE MYSTERY of the fate of foreign property in the Kiangwan region as a result of the heavy bombardments and fighting of the last three or four days, has been cleared up by the daring exploit of Mr. J. Collaco, who ventured right into the battle into zone in an effort to reach his brother's house, the errand being
On several occasions, Mr. Collaco had narrow foreigners who have been trapped
bring
and escapes. He passed right through the Japanese lines between the lines of fire and also and found that his brother's property, together with the soldiers.
the wounded Chinese and Japanese) homes of several other foreigners, had been completely edition were completed yesterday The arrangements for the ex-; wrecked. To all appearances, it had been the scene of through the efforts of Major
hand to hand battle between rival troops. His Hayley Bell, brother, Mr. A. M. Collaco is now
of the Shanghai on his way to Jacquinot, who enlisted the sup
Volunteer Hongkong,
Corp und Father
a
HONGKONG-BOUND,
He left Shanghai, having abou doning the house as soon as it bes
to have
the
3.m.
EXTENSION POSSIBLE.
to
of
Major Hayley Belt, S.V.C., who played a prominent part in the arrangement of this morning't truce in Shanghai and the sub- sequent rescue work.
CHINA STIRS UP THE LEAGUE.
Invokes Article Fifteen.
SC
EUROPE IN GRIP OF KING WINTER.
ENORMOUS SNOW BLANKET.
HUNGARY SWEPT BY INFLUENZA.
(Reuter's Special Service). London, Feb. 11. ING FROST has again
the Continent and the Bri- tish Isles. Europe is suffer. ing the most bitterly cold weather of the present win- ter, huge blanket of snow sweeping from Britain to Greece.
BRITAIN'S
TARIFFS. Whole Hog In Agriculture.
THE FREE LIST.
London, Feb. 11.
The text is Issued of the Im- ports Duties B. which provides for a ten per cent. Customs 4. rolorem duty on all imported goods other those exempted. The schedule enumerates the exempt- ed good, chief among which the following:
aro
gold and silver bullion and coin,
wheat in grain,
meat including bacon, ham and edible offal (but not including ox- tracts and
essences of meat or
nest preserved in any airtight con- tainer),
Tive quadruped animals, 1sh of British taking.
ten.
raw cotton, including manufac- tured cotton waste, -
flax and hemp not further dress- ed, after scutching or decorticat- ing.
hides and skins, not Including gontskins,
newspapers, printed books, and printed music,
nowspaper in rolls, wood pulp, raw rubber,
Iron and Steel.
iron ore, not including chrome ore, scrap iron and scrap steel iron pyrites, tin ores and concer-
trates,
wooden pit props, sulphur minerals, phosphates of lime, unset precious stones,
radlum compounds and ores, raw wool,
cottonseed, rapeseed and linseed, The bill provides for pre- ference to the Dominions, India, Southern Rhodesia, the Mandated Territories and the Colonica.
Where it is shown that the goods are imported for re-exportation, the Commissioners to be appointed under the Bill may allow the goods to he Imported free of duty.
PROTECTION FOR THE FARMER.
he had quoted Chinese officials came evident that the title was been occupied by Chinese troops the venture, started their pro-disregard of its obligations under mast severe frost for many years. of. Commons by Sir John Gilmour,
Anmo
Some parts are less severe- Geneva, Feb. 11. Mr. A. M. Collaco's house, which also badly damaged, having
longing to Mr. A. M. Collace, is Cunningham, to arrange an agree-invoke Article Fifteen of the
ly affected than others, and port of Mr. J. F. Brenan and Mr. China has definitely decided to
it is a curious feature of the is very close to the
Kiangwandparently been bamisi. Racecourse, has been almost com
ipment for a complete cessation of League of Nations Covenant I
cold snap that the worst con- hostilities between 8 pletely wrecked by a shell or a
ditions are to be found in the and) against Japan. bomb
in the garden of the house were noon to-day.
The sting of the Article does not
most southerly climes. two bodies. one of t Chinese
lie within its own saldier and one of
terms, but in Most of Europe is completely in a Japanese
the fact that marine.
It is Intimately the grip of real wintry weather. if by noon the tuak has not linked with Article Sixteen, In-Much now has fallen in Britain een completed, an extension of volving the in an Interview, he admitted that
USED AS FORT.
of economic and ley winda are blewing," keep- Linie is possible.
sanctions and the complete pre-ing, the population shivering, or The house appeared
"Major Hayley Bell-and Father vention of any kind of intercourse indoors price for his Australian Airways extending towards Kiangwan, ear-and
Jacquinot, the prime movers
with a State resorting to war in
The Government's agricultural Fleet, but he declined to discuss they this week in order to take his against Japanese attacks along the puratione as seven o'clock, this
Barcelona is experiencing the policy was outlined in the House used as a sort of fortress question of his own services, be wife and family to Hongkong.
other Articles. yond remarking that he is without
It should be possible to hold mantle of snow which in rond. It is possible that they morning and at eight o'clock immediately a special session of places has fallen to a depth of agriculture which had suffered
Jugo-Slavia Is wrapped in the Minister for Agriculture. On Monday, just before his de-proved difficult to shift and that promptly, the party passed into the League Assembly, to which four feet, with great drifts com- most was wheat growing, and the a job and would consider any offer-parture, he went to the house to Japanese aviators were sent across the No Man's Land between the China in entitled under Article pletely blocking traffic.
He said that the branch of recover some valuables and on un-to bomb them out of existence. lines. locking the door, found it covered) This seems to be the logical ex- Fourteen nurses and nine stret delegates already in Geneva in thirty-six degrees below freezing viding them with
Fifteen, as all the Powers have
Government proposed to in bloodstains, a skirmish having pianation and the bombers did cherrers, all foreign, and a connexion with the Disarmament point have been recorded.
assist In Bosnia, temperatures of
growers by a quota scheme, pro- taken place inside the house up their work only too eflclently. Chinese interpreter, followed the
a guaranteed parently, but no signs of any deschi
Conference. or wounded persons.
officer and the prleat, while
market and an enhanced price for six motor-trucks converted into am-
wheat of milling NOTHING TO LOSE.
Influenza Raging.
quality. The Government attached great Mr. J. Collaco gives a graphic
bulances were in the procession. The Chinese delegation feels
Intensified by the cold, na importance to a long range policy description of war-scarred Kiangcorner of North Szechuan The party assembled at On Wednesday, his brother, Mr. wan. Dozens of buildings are in Jukong Roads
the that it has nothing to lose by tak alarming epidemic of influenza is but immediate action was neces 4. Callaco, also ventured into the ruins, dead bodies are still lying Chapel promptly
and lag its case before the League owing to the rapid spread of the exception of wheat, wool and
aging through. Hungary, and and, and moved into Assembly, while the more pub-complaint,
Fary
accordingly, with the fighting fines, to the house. He about, and the first ridge acroAN
at eight ne-icity they obtain regarding the
orders havo been ment, all agricultural and horti- found that it had been blown to the Kiangwan Creek
has been the stuff of
companied by members of events in the Far East, the more
jIssued to doctors to notify all cultural produce would be includ- pieces, all the furniture and other blown up. the Shanghai Rifle Association, be houses wrecked or destroyed are property, including the records of
and also representatives of the They are sending a Note to the
Dutics Bil1. ing destroyed..
Among the many foreign-owned ] Japanese Consulate-General, League Secretariat this evening for three cases of Influenza in overy be imposed
In some districts, there are two Additional Customs duty would those of Mr. Aquino and
AREA OF TRUCE.
on any particular house and the death rate in in-product if recommended by the The area of the truce extenda;
creasing tragically every hour. from Hongkew Park, along the
Import Duties Advisory Commit- tee. In connexion therewith, maiting barley and certain hort!-- drome when an examination dis-cultural products would receive closed the defective mechaniam particular attention. and that two bombs were missing.
Reorganisation Schemes.'
-Kruter.
U.S. AND MEXICO IN ALLIANCE!
DENIAL BY THE STATE
DEPARTMENT.
Washington, Fob, 11. The existence of an understand ing between the United States and Mexico, linking their national in teresta in the event of further com- plications in the Far Eastern situation is disclosed by authorita- tive quarters.
Later.
BLOWN TO PIECES.
BRIDGE DESTROYED.
A bungalow, next door, also be-'Castillo.
The State Department denies the SETTLEMENT UNEASINESS GROWS.
Brider-
reports that the United States and Mexico have reached an standing regarding the Far East. Reuter's American Service.
SWATOW LIGHTS.
GOOD HOPE WILL BE
OPERATED.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Shanghal, Feb, 12, 11.07 a.m.
The Internal situation in Shang-
hal is giving rise to considerable
and increasing uneasiness,
the feeding problem.
Miss
CHINESE RESTLESS. Business houses are idle and the
Admiral Nomura, it will be to their advantage. синея to the Central Medicaled within the scope of the Import
-Router.
Woosung Hallway to Paoshan Road ADMIRAL NOMURA
and the Shanghai North Station.)
Members of the party were drawn from volunteers from the General Hospital, St. Mario's Hospital and the Institute of the Holy Family.
Members of the S.V.C. formed. the stretchor-bearing section.
it is estimated, shortage of money and the restric- The Chinese commandors have
APOLOGISES.
THE WING ON MILL INCIDENT.
Office.
The naval authorities there- upon assumed full responsibility Sir John Gilmour said a Com and Admiral Nomura, the new mission would set up for the re- commander-in-chief personally organisation of the milk industry. called upon the American Admiral A scheme for the organisation
and apologised, announcing that of the bacon industry would full compensation would be paid undertaken forthwith and provid persone ed a feasible and satisfactory killed and wounded as well as scheme was evolved. the Gerer- damages for the destruction of ment would promote some form of private property.
quantitative regulation of b porta.
There are now over 150,000 workers out of work tion of credit are problema which given every assurance of the ob TO PAY REPARATION. to the families of the owing to the elasuro of the mills are making the Chinese extremely servance of the truce, and the and factories, in addition to which restless. The situation is rendered Japanese have done likewise. the thousands upon thousands of more alarming by the knowledge
A telegram received by Monara.refugees who have abandoned their that many of the workless in the Gliman & Co. from Messrs. Brad Inbours and Red Into the Settlement Settlement are
Joy & Co.. Lloyd's Agents at Swa- from the outside areas increases i worst type. tow, states:
"Have arranged with military,
Good Hope will continue to func
rufans of the
tion normally, but not Sugar Loaf. NANKING FEARS. bombardment of the capital.
Ships cannot enter or leave Swa tow between 17.00 hours and 0.700 hours."
The Royal Observatory reports that the anti-cyclone in contral over! 8.E. Koron, moving E.N.E. Another is forming over S.E. Mongolia. Local forecast-N.E. winds, fresh; generally cloudy.
JAPANESE ACTION
RUMOURS.
The warning is based upon a report that the Japanese have lodged a complaint with the Con-
WASHINGTON'S HANDS OFF.
DIFFERENCES IN CABINET. Washington, Feb. 11.
(Special to Telegraph")
Shanghai, Feb. 12. 9.05 a.m. The Japanoso naval authorities have accepted full responsibility
NEW PILOT ORDERS.
The appointment
It is stated that Japanese air organisation Commitatea
-200
for the tragic incident yesterday pilots have now received morning,
very sider a scheme for marketing the when a bomb was positive Instructions not to fly home com, and the action veren dropped on the Wine On Mill, over the International Settlement sary for the regulation of the bus where memborn of the U.8. Marine and it is announced that owing ports of the mate crop of patalos Corps were billeted.
to the difficulty experienced by the in
is also contemplatest. According to an official state- Japanese pilots who have newly Measures for anabsting the The United States Government ment by the Japanese, a defective arrived from Japan in defining ing industry, were milli roestring sular Body in Shanghat to the is likely to continue its "Handeck on the bomb rack of the limit
exactly where affect that the Japanese warships of policy regarding the Shaus Japanese acroniane was the direct limite end and Chinese territory
the Battlement consideration. --- at Nanking have been subjected to hai developments. Differences of authorities have despatched a and that action to prevent such Cabinet are said to account for the It is reported that the Chinese intermittent fire from the shere opinion within; President Hoover's warning to Nanking regarding the incident may have to be taken. sudden decision to cease further possibility of a further Japanese-Rensha.
peace-offorts:-Wireless.
Shanghai, Feb. 12.
enuse of the incident'
ADMIRAL'S PROMISE. The lot of the machina, was unaware of the ufafal until he had trial.
begins, no Japanamo fller will be sent upon a bombing mission until he has conducted number of
unktering Telgalisarmine preliminary flights to become a0-