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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937. 日四十月六
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SUNG OFFERS TO WITHDRAW ARMY
Sporadic Fighting Continues To Keep Tension At Height
35,000 JAPANESE TROOPS WILL LAND AT TANGKU TO-MORROW; BRITISH WARSHIP WATCHING
Tokyo, July 21.
Reports reaching here from Peiping state that General Sung Cheh-yuan, commandant of the 29th Army, last night proposed to withdraw the 37th Chinese Division from Panaoshan between 10 a.m. and noon to-day, and to substitute for the troops a military police force. Thus he hoped to prevent further clashes in Lukouchiao and the vicinity.
The Japanese military has appointed three Japanese officers to supervise the Chinese withdrawal.-Reuter.
INTENSE NERVOUSNESS CONTINUES
Shanghai, July 21.
Intense nervousness prevails as a result of two further clashes in the Wangping area yesterday afternoon, and the wholesale exodus from the Chinese native city to the concessions in Tientsin is progressing, the people fearing that fighting will become general.
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Meanwhile, there are heavy Japanese troop movements along the Peiping- Mukden railway,
It is understood that 35,000 troops, comprising a full army corps, will arrive at Tangku aboard transports from Japan, the first landing to be made to-morrow morning. All these troops will proceed to Tientsin by train.
H.M.S. Grimsby has arrived at Tangku, where there are some British nationals and interests.
After the first clash near Peiping yesterday afternoon the Japanese paused a little and then recommenced the bombardment of Wangping at 7.45 p.m. The bombard- ment continued until 10 p.m. after several buildings had been wrecked and the Marco Polo Bridge had been partial- ly destroyed.
Fighting is also reported to have had sought for similar action by the broken out last night at the villages British Ambassador, Sit Hughe
FAMOUS GENERAL RETURNS
Dogged By Agents Of Japan, Says
Tsai Ting-kai
LULL IN MADRID
STRUGGLE
Conflicting Claims Tell Of Severe Casualties
40,000 Involved In Battle
London, July 20. The Insurgents" big offensive west of Madrid, culminating in the biggest battle of the civil war on July 18 when about 40,000 men were engaged, has now censed, according to 11 message from Madrid.
It is reported that all the efforts of the Insurgents to retake the towns captured by the Government a fort- nigght ago in a sudden drive westward, proved annvaiting.
It is estimated the Insurgents lost 2,000 killed alone.
On the other hand, reports from Salamanca state that violent fight- ing has been proceeding in the triangle west of Madrid for the
'PARTITIONTM PLAN CRITICISED
Lord Samuel, who was first High criticised the Palestine Commission's Commissioner in Palestine, yesterday
last two daya and that the prolonge partition scheme and put forward
opposition offered by the Interna. lona Brigade was finally broken, and the defenders driven from their
. positions by Moorials troops after
hand-to-hand fighting.
The Insurgents claim to have ad- vanced over four miles and to have inflicted at least 6,000 casualties on the Government forces. - Reuter.
ATTACK REOPENED
Mizdrid, July 20. The Insurgent army at down to- day reopened its attack.
All night long the glare in the north-west showed that the battle was continuing. This morning the Insurgents attacked on the southern front, whereupon Loyalist planes bombed and machine-gunned roadsides.
the
Insurgent scout planes appeared over Madrid.
Loyalists issuedi Termiq+1 stating their troops had recaptured ground lost Sunday and Monday.- United Press.
COLD PROMISED, NOT SENT
Salamanca, July 20.
alternative proposala.
DEADLOCK IMPEDES PARLEYS
Italians Insist
On Belligerent Rights For Spain
Withdrawal of Volunteers To Come Later
LABOUR ATTACK
ON PALESTINE PARTITION PLAN
Government Anxious
To Avoid
Variations
London, July 20.
Lord Snell, speaking for Labour when initiating the discussion of the Palestine Report in the House of Lords to-day, said the members of the Royal Commis- sion who had investigated the situation and recommended partitioning, seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that the country would never be united until it was divided. In his judgment the better and surer way lay in obtaining understanding and co- operation between the two races.
the report before Parliament had had an opportunity to He complained that the Government had endorsed
pronounce upon it. On behalf of the Labour Party he condemned the partitioning as inequitable and hazardous.
Radio Silence
Last Tribute
To Marconi
Lord Peel, chairman of the Pales- line Commission, who was received with loud cheers, snid he believed that the deep-rooted farts of the situa tlon were that it would not be
to
possible carry on government under a mandule without the greatest and
must
searching alterations in the mandate itself."
The race which had been introduced Into Palestine was determined not to remain in the minority. Inevitably, London, July 20, therefore, the Arab belleved that Striking British tributes will be either himself or his descendunts paid to the late Marchese Guglielmo would go down before the forces of Marconi, who developed wireless to of the Jews, with which they would its present state of near-perfection, be unable to cope.
funeral at the the state inventor at Rome to-morrow,
MIGHT HAVE DONE BETTER
Alt wireless, telegraph and tele- phone stations will be closed for two The least that could be said about minutes. This will apply to all the Palestine Government was that Empire radio telephone services, it might have governed much better, the Lord Peel went on. But how could wireless services to ships and
London, July 20. It was disclosed to-day that an The Non-Intervention Com- American, Harold Dahl, is held inmittee appears to face a fresh continent. All B.B.C. transmitters Government flourish with the deep will likewise cense nelivities for two Arab and Jewish discrepancy? he military prison here, having been deadlock, with the Italians re-minutes-Renter Bulletin Service, asked. captured when he parachuted from
lines.
his burning plane over the Insurgent questing that withdrawal of volunteers shall not be discussed He is reported to have told the In-until belligerent rights surgents that the Spanish Ambassador granted Spain. in Mexico, who promised to cend much gold to Spain, has failed to keep his word, and that only a little paper money has arrived-United
General Tsai Ting-kai, former Press,
of Shigsangsuan, two iniles west of Knatchbull-Hugessen, is still uncon-commander of the 19th Route Peiping, Tachingtsun, north-east of | flrmel-Reuter, Wangping, and at Tahunginen, be-
tween Peiping and Nanyuun, the WAR MAY SPREAD latter the 291) Army barracks. Reuter.
DEADLIER BLOW TO
COME
Shanghai, July 21 (1.35 a.m.) Following the outbreak of hostili ties around Pelping yesterday after noon, Major-General Torashiro Ka- wabe, Brigade commandant, station ed at Peiping. warned that the Japanese Army. would strike "an- other and deadlier blow unless the Chinese reflect upon their actions."
Army, arrived in Hongkong from Manith this morning aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Empress
Tsingtao, July 20. of Russia, en route to Nanking! That the Japanese fear the spread to offer his services to the Gov-]
of war to Shantung Is indicated by ernment in connection with the the fact that the general exodus of Japanese residents from the interior Sino-Japanese crisis. of the province has been completed. During the past five days, more 500 Japanese, mostly women, and children, have arrived here from all the districts along the Chiao-Chi Rallway-Hua Nan News.
than
AIRCRAFT ACTIVE
Paotingfu. July 20.
A large number of Japanese planes been followed by
two
"TERRORISTS" EXECUTED
MERCILESS PURGE
CONTINUES
Moscow, July 20, The trial exccution of another
railway offciats
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"I have done my share of chastis- flew southward along the Ping-Han while he was in the Philippines, and, Far Eastern Rallway, ing the Chinese to-day," he said at Rallway this morning and swooped as a result, was given protection by the cessation of firing yesterday over the city of Paetingfu. Sub- the Government there. These two during the past ten weeks the names evening, according to the Domei
News Agency correspondent in the fighting area. United Press,
AVOID MAJOR ATTACK
Tientsin, July 21 (12.39 a.m.) Japanese military authorities here: indicated last night that they would not open a major offensive during the negotiations with General Chang Tze-chung, Mayor of Tlentsin.
However, General Chang has been stricken suddenly with a serious ill- ness. Ils office states that he has hud
internal haemorrhage.--- United Press.
INTERVENTION NOT SOUGHT
London, July 20 (12.35 .m.)
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STOP PRESS
having, on
At the Central Magistracy this morning, Revenue Officer Harry Rich Major, aged 24, was charged with board the ss. Wo Ping Yee, on June 23, received a bribe of Contrary to reports from Tokyo, $200 from a man named Lee Yi. no request has been made for British Chief Detective Inspector Murphy intervention in the North China prosecuted, and a week's formal re- crisis. It was alleged that Mr. Quemand was granted on ball of $500. Tai-chi, the Chinese Ambassador here, had opproached the British Government with the view to DECUT- ing its good offices.
The report that “Dr. "Wang Chung- Chul the Chinese Foreign Minister,
are
the
on Agreement in principle proposal to establish international officers at Spanish ports to protect Spain against intervention by foreigners In the civil war, reached at this morning's meeting of the Non-Intervention Committee's,
WAS
sub-committee tinder the chairman
ship of Lord Plymouth.
The sub-commitier met again in the afternoon and adjourned ut 6.45 p.m. it understood the Italian reprosentative, Count Dino Grandi, the Ambassador, requested: that the question of the withdrawal of foreign volunteers should not be discussed until belligerent rights were granted the Spanish factions.
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DRAMATIC VICTORY
FOR U.S.
Budge Comes From Behind To Beat
German Ace
Packed with excitement and drama, the Inter-Zone Final of the Davis Cup ended yesterday
As no agreement could be reached at Wimbledon with victory for meeting adjourned, without fixing a matches to two. on this question of procedure, the the United States by three
date for resumption-Reuter,
GERMANY ABSENT
London, July 20, Nine nations on the sub-committee
Spanish control scheme, are of the Non-Intervention-Committee, which has been discussing
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"It was not until after the most thorough and tremendous sifting and questioning that we moved slowly and reluctantly to the assumption that no mere change In the mandate enough," Lord Peel concluded.
Lord Dufferin, Under-Secretary of State for Colonies, draw the attention of the Lords to the fort that the Res lport was unanimous on majur
the foun
issues of the investigation. It had dispelled the belief that the existing mandate could be made to work. The Government's view was that the Commission's scheme appeared eqult- uble and well conceived in its main outline, and both just and practie- able, The Government believed its inherent difficultles would be over-
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Interviewed on board, General Tsai said he first learned of the trouble
BOUNDARY CONSIDERATIONS while he was in the Philippines, where the Chinese presa urged him to twenty-four
Representations regarding the pro- return to China. He could not say Khabarovsk, for alleged spying, were
posed boundaries of the partitions of whether the 19th Route Army, of reported by a local newspaper
Palestine, for Jews and Arabs and which he had been the leader, would July 10.
neutral zone, would be received with be re-organised.
All the accused were alleged niem-i
The issue depended
on the last every consideration, Lord Dufferin malch on the series "Trotskyist "Japanese
when G. von sald. General Taal
revealed that he had bers of
terrorist spying organisation" operat-
Cramm faced Donald Budge. The Japanese
While various modifications of do- Inge on the Voroshiloft branen of the
and skill to win the first two sets. all might be found necessary, German played with great courage
the The same journal has published
Budge, however, replied in charge-Government was not disposed to Japanese had even followed him to of one hundred and thirty persons deadlock.
teristic style and squared the match entertain very substantial variations, at two sets all.
the pointed out. Hongkong, he said. He is going to said to have been executed in the Nunking of his own accord and not Far East
He added that a military convention The final set was full of remark would be attached to the treaties en- on similar on instruction from the Government.
charles. Italy's representative refused to disable fluctuations in fortune. The Reuter.
cuss the withdrawal of volunteers German led 4-1, but was pulled back tered into with the Jewish and Arub from Spain.
to four-all. Then Budge broke states. This convention would deal
with the. The Gerinan representative, Herr | through service in the 13th gameval and air forces, the use of ports, maintenance of military. Jonchim von Ribbentrop, Ambassador fond in the next game held Ave match )roads and railroads, and the security to Britain, did not even attend.-points on service before he could so- of pipelines to the oilfields, and other
COCKTAIL PARTIES CLASH WITH NAVY'S DIGNITY: SUCCEEDED BY "AT HOMES"
(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
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Tals decision was taken when
United Press,
MINERS WANT. MORE WAGES
London, July 20. A conference of the Mineworkers' at Blackpool to-night
cure the winning shot.
Detailed scores and full report will mottors affecting the
defence and be found on Fage 8.
security of Palestine, as a whole- Reuter,
Meteors Sweep Faster Now
LORD SAMUEL OPPOSES
the
London, July 20. In the House of Lords, Lord. When the China Fleet returns to Hongkong after its summer cruise in the North, friends of Naval Officers will no longer find
Samuel, who was the first High Com- misalaner themselves invited to those convivial evening aboard, known in the
∙to Palestine, criticised the report of the Commis- strongly ston, past as cocktail parties. Officially the cocktail party is dead, its Federation
particularly London, July 20.
scheme. He urged, as an alternative partition obsequies having been, read in a recent Station Order by the Compassed a resolution to the effect that
A hundred years ago to-day Euston scheme, that the Jews should consent mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Little, who is at present in should have an ease of 18 years Railway Station was opened to the to a limitation of immigration other Weihaiwei,
have an increase In wages public.
than on the principle of aunting to 2s. 6d. weekly, while Happily however, there will be no Sir Charles points out in his Order, those below the age of 18 should re- two engines, made its first run from really of Arab national aspirations.
A train of 14 carriages, drawn by capacity
absorptive and also recognise moaning at the empty bár, for the that he appreciates that in carrying|ceive additional 16. 3d.
the station, attaining a speed of 21 Britain, with France's assent, he popular cocktail party will, in naval tainment, Commanding Officers have the Secretary for Mines for discussion
out. their duties in regard to enter- The resolution was submitted to miles per hour.
suggested, should assist in the forma parlance, be known in future under been obliged to follow the form of at the forthcoming conference with the train as "sweeping Uke a meteor" which would help Palestine economi
The Press at that time described tion of a great Arab Federation the older and more dignified term cocktail parties owing to the fashion mine owners-Reuter Bulletin Ser- through the countryside. Reuter cally, while the Araba should con-
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