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五拜雞 號六十月七英港香
Hopei-Charhar
Army
Ready to Fight, But Not Certain of Aid
INFLUENCES AT WORK TO SPLIT
CHINA'S UNITED FRONT IN
FACING JAPANESE THREAT
Reports Japan's
of Surrender To Demands
(Special to "Telegraph")
Denied
Peiping, July 16.
High officials are confident that General Sung Cheh-yuan, commander-in-chief of the 29th Army which guards the Hopei-Charhar area, is ready and anxious to resist Japanese encroachment. They believe he is hesitating because he is not completely convinced that Nanking will really support him.
Meanwhile, it is indicated that certain pro-Japanese factions close to General Sung, are pressing him to "localise" the Lukouchiao incident and prevent real resistance by confusing the issue, to a sufficient extent to allow that they, and the Japanese, will eventually control the Hopei-Charhar area.
Chinese and foreign circles all admit their nervousness, despite the outward peace. They are disturbed by the circulation of the wildest rumours in years. Responsible Chinese authorities, however, deny the rumour of an agreement having already been reached in Tienstin.
They place no credence in reports that General Sung and his colleagues have agreed to the withdrawal of the 29th Army to Paoting, the reorganisation of the Hopei- Charhar Political Council, the demilitarisation of the Peiping-Tientsin railway area.
Japanese say they are not interested in such trifles. They are only waiting to see if Nanking troops advance northward, in which event there will be a real war.
It
A Hopei-Chahar Political Council spokesman denies there has been any change in the administration of martial law, was suggested yesterday that the Pacification Corps would take over this duty from the 29th Army. A tour of the city seems to confirm the spokesman's deni ul.
Chineso newspapers state that the demands by Japanese that the Peace Preservation Corps handle martial law adminis- tration, that the 29th Army troops be removed from the walls of Peiping and that the gates of the city remain open all day long, have all been refused—United Presą,
NEW AGREEMENT
DENIED
Tientsin, July 15.
4
Hang and Chan Cheng as Comman- der-in-Chief and Vice Commander- in-Chief respectively to Direct operations In North Chins in case war really breaks out. General - Chinese and Japanese both deny Chan Chenit, Vice-Minister of War, that any new agreement has been is one of the right-hand
signed during the past 48 hours. Upwards of 600 Japanese been evacuated from Pelping.
From
men
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, while have Chang Hauch-lang is the former leuder of the North-Eastern forces.-- Tientsin it 10 learned, Wah Klu Yat Po. through Domel. News Agency, that
hopes of a peaceful utcome of the SITUATION REVIEWED
North China trouble are diminishing. -United Press,
HOPE NOT ABANDONED
WAR ONLY
COURSE OPEN TO JAPANESE
"Necessary To Appeal To
Armed Force"
Tokyo, July 16.
Partial mobilisation of the Japanese Army has been order-
ed and is proceeding,
of
Meanwhile, the Osaka Jiji, well-informed newspaper the southern metropolis. sum- marises the situation;.
"It has now become clear that a peaceful settlement in North Chinn is impossible and that the Japanese Government thinks it is absolutely necessary to enforce Japan's Just clalins by an appeal to armed force.". -Keuter.
STOP
.
PRESS
chief
FRIDAY, JULY 16,
1937.
DEFENDS HIS
PROPOSALS
MR. ANTHONY EDEN Britain's
Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, found his non-Intervention proposals assaulted by the Labour yesterday and rose to defend them
Opposition in the House of Commons
angrily.
20 KILLED IN MINE DISASTER
Flung With Awful Force Against Tunnel Wall
Survivor Tells
Ghastly Story.
SINGLE COPY 19 GENTS
日九月六 136.00 PER ANNUM
BRITISH PEACE
MOTORISTS
WHOSE MOTTO IS
FORMULA SEEMS
DOOMED TO DIE
Spain's
Insurgents
And British Labour. Both Attack Scheme
the
Just as it seemed the British proposals for maintaining non-intervention in Spain might bear palatable fruit, despatches from Salamanca, Insurgent headquarters, apparently wreck the new hope for a settlement. It is semi-officially stated there, says Reuter, that the British non-intervention proposals do not appear to have made much of an advance on the former suggestions and that they will not be acceptable to both sides.
that
come before
The main
Reuter adds, The Insurgents declare, recognition of belligerent rights must withdrawal of volunteers can be discussed.
contention of the British, on the other hand, is that volunteers should be withdrawn before even partial belligerency can be recognised.
Labour Attacks Proposals
London, July 15.
of Commons Initiating the House debate on British proposals for non- intervention, Mr. C. R. Attlee, Labour Opposition leader, declared to-day the Government's scheme was unjust, ill- conceived and dangerous. It did not effect what was desired, he insisted. Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secre- Sullivan, Ind., July 15.
tary,
was attempting to reconcile There has been a tragic ex-irreconcilabics, with the result that he
hind in fact surrendered to trio de plosion in a coal mine here.
mands of the Fascist powers, which First reports stated that four only wanted non-intervention as men were gravely injured and 24 convenient serren behind which they others were trapped by the ex- could intervene, plosion in a mine belonging to the Glendora. Coal Company.
Next news said that twelve of those entombed had been rescued, ten of them seriously burned.
There should be no consideration
Favourable Reception
For Formula
Europe Generally Seems Satisfied
London, July 15. Although no official reaction
Safety
"First
ALWAYS FIT.
DUNLOP TYRES
ATTACKS NEW FORMULA
MR. C. R. ATTLEE -
Labour Opposition leader in the House of Commons, bliterly unnalled the Government's non-lutervention proposals yesterday, in spite of the favourable reception of them abroad.
EARHART SEARCH CONTINUES
But Hopes Of Rescue Grow Fainter
Honolulu, July 15. The search for Mrn, Amelia Earhart Putnam and her companions con- tinues, but there is still no trace of the filers, and hope is growing falater. Forty-two planes from the United States aircraft-carrier Lexington are continuing what is believed to be the Navy's last attempt to locate the miss- ing aviators. To-day they flew for four hours along the 100th Meridian, west of Howland Island, without success.
It is understood that the planes will during the week-end concentrate on Gilbert Island, where the aviators
of the new proposals, he said, until has yet reached London, there the complete withdrawal of volun- are indications that the Non-may have drifted if their machine is trers from Spain had been accomp Intervention Committee will stili afloat-Reuter,
shed.
Mr. Attice contended the Govern-accept the British proposals for It is feared the twelve remaining ment's proposals were falling away the continuation of non-interven- In the mine cannot be brought up from the standards of international tion in Spain, the withdrawal of law, especially in granting belligerent volunteers and the granting of After some hours of frantic rights.
alive,
rescue work It was officially an- nounced that casualties were- 20 dead and 12 seriously Injured. There were 203 men worknig in the mine when a terrific blast occurred.
One of the rescued miners said most of the men were crushed to death by falling debels or by being hurled against the rock walls of the tunnels, The cause of the explosion is not yet known. Reuter.
belligerent rights to both sides,
at least as a basis of discussion. Risks Of Conflict.
It is believed to-morrow the repre- Replying, Mr. Anthony Eden de- sentatives on the Committee will clared the Governments of Europe be prepared to express the general knew that if the non-intervention views of their Governments, plon collapsed the risks of a European As the various powers will probably conflict were thereby inevitably In-
reservations, there is creased. "It might well be that we make, some should be unable to avoid reaching some fear that discussion may be un- duly protracted. But the British (Continued on Page 4.)
Government will emphasise the urgency of the occasion and will ask to be entrusted, as early as possible, with the task of approaching the two parties In Spain for their consent to the arrangement.-Reuter,
GREAT POWERS CLOSELY WATCH
JAPAN'S MOVES
London, July 15.
Events in North China are being watched with the closest interest in London, and the exchange of information between the British, French and United States Governments is continuing. Both Great Britain and the United States have informed the Japanese Government independently that in the view of each the original clash at Lukouchiao was of altogether too small a scale to warrant the extension of the conflict.
Any attempt by either the Chinese or Japanese to magnify the incident into an affair of national prestige, would be a matter of the gravest concern to Great Britain, it has been pointed out.
ITALY MAY ACCEPT
Rome, July 15. While the strictest reserve is being maintained in official circles regard- ing the Italian attitude to the new British plan for preserving non- intervention in Spain, the belief has been strengthened that Italy will accept the proposals na a basis for discussion at the usual consultations on such matters which Rome and Berlin have been holding recently.- Reuter.
FRANCE BACKS PLAN
Paris, July 13,
ROOSEVELT REBUKES CONGRESS
Talked Politics In Time Of Mourning
Washington, July 15. President F. D. Roosevelt to-day addressed a letter to Senator A. W. Barkley, Kentucky, acting leader of the Democratic bloc in the upper house, asserting it is the duty of Congress to legislate this session for the reorganisation of the federal courts.
The abandonment of the judicial reform measure will place the res-
failure ponsibility for
of action the shoulders of Con- squarely on gress, he declared.
Referring to the death of Senator Robinson yesterday, President Roose veit wrote that he had hoped that in decent respect to his memory, Con- KTCES would have deferred discus- sion of political legislative matters. "It is therefore with regret that I And advantage was taken of what should have been a period of mourn-
It is authoritatively learned that the President's rebuke is believed French attitude to the new
non-
intervention plan may be summarised as follows:
France accepta the British proposals with regard to the restoration of sea and land control and the withdrawal of volunteers, provided both sides in Spain consent to the suggestions.
Such consent is essential, it is held, rights can even be usefully discuss before the granting of belligerent ed--Reuter.
LOYALISTS STILL ATTACKING
Shanghai, July 18. According to a competent obser- ver, the present developments in the North may lead to major hostililles Nanking, July '15. If the Chinese authorities in Peiping Despite of the present uncertainty, persistently decline to accede to the of the situation In North China, Japanese demand, for the demill- Chinese official circles have not tarisation of the disputed areas, completely abondoned hope for including Lokonchiao and Wanping,
LI Kok peace. The North China authorities and other political and
Cheung, former economic have been instructed by the Central demands. However, any such con manager of the Sincere Perfumery, Government to avoid further aggra- cessions would never be recognised before the fact in the murder of Mr. charged with being on accessory
Latest reports received in London from Tokyo are vation of the situation, and have also the Nankinged deaths & sequel David Chan Sze, on May 13, one of not reassuring, and it is feared that Marshal Chiang
Government. been instructed to sock peace in accordance with the principles of to the Tangku Truce Agreement of the directors of Sincere's, was re- self-defenec.
1935 the war zones in the castern manded again to-day before Mr. E. Kai-shek may be forced by Chinese public opinion, into.nuing their offensive on the Madrid
Himsworth at the Kowloon Mugis- Somo military observers are stulpart of Hopei Province was made a inclined to
taking an unduly strong line. trney. the ølluntion demilitarised zone, lo be controlled vlow
Au King, 37, unemployed, charged pessimistically, owing to the ever by the Chinese Public, Safety Guards changing Japanese attitude, and that or militia, a pro-Japanese, armed with the actual murder of Mr. Sze, matters may take a turn the organisation with Yen Yu-kang as was also remanded. worse if the Japanese determine to its communder. Subsequently, with Both will appear ogulri at 2.30 p.m. make a text of the fighting power of the support and encouragement of on July 22. their forces
2995 1- the Japanese, Yen Yu-kang created
for
It is understood that the Centraían independent regime in the area: Government considering the ap-he controlled, which is now known pointment of Generale Chang Hauch- (Continued on Page 12.)
Keeps Constant Touch
to be due to reports that Senator Robinson's death wil rove the death knell of court reform legislation In the present session.-Reuter.
Planes Again Hop Atlantic
London, July 20. Another double trans-Atlantic, crossing by planes of Imperial Air ways and the Pan-American Airways, collaborating in plans for establish ment of a regular service, has just
been commenced.
At 7.25 p.m. to-day the American
Madrid, July 15. The Government forces are con-
front, which the insurgenia claim to have repulsed. On the other hand, the Japanese
The Insurgent advance at Santand-Clipper ship left Foynes, Ireland, on assurances that the incidents in the
a return flight to Botwood, Now- er has been stopped at present, and foundland, the base on the other alde North have been unpremeditated, During the past few days, Lord the defenders are how establishing an have been accopted in London, as alto Cranborne, Under-Secretary of State fron ring similar to that at Bilbao Imperiat Airways Caledonia was duo of the ocean. A few hours later the in the view that Tokya is not really for Foreign Affairs told the House of for the defence of the town.
to leave Botwood for Foynes. interested in delaying the settlement. Commons, he had been in constant
Two German shipping firms have His Majesty's Government therefore touch with the Chinese Ambassador, declared their intention of resuming bees no reason to make an offer for who had communicated to Elm a
traffic between Germany and Bilbao. mediation.
-Router Bulletin Service,
(Continued on Page 4)
It has been learned from Botwood
Later.
that the Caledonia took off at 10.25 p.m. B.S.T. for Foynes-Router.