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FIRST EDITION
3 Steren: Court
Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 18273
FOUNDED 1841
五拜禮 號十三月七英港香
JULY FRIDAY,
30, 1937,
日三廿月六
BINGLE COPY 19 CENTS
130.00 ΣΕΙΣ ANNUM
Concessions Continue CHIANG KAI-SHEK BRITAIN
Tense As Fire Sweeps Tientsin Chinese City
ITALIANS OPEN · FIRE TO
CLEAR
BOUNDARY OF SNIPERS; CONSULAR
OFFICERS TRYING TO MEDIATE
Tientsin, July 30 (12.32 a.m.).
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This new tyre meets the conditions pro- duced by increased car efficiency.
WARNS
CALLS ON
ON NATION JAPAN AGAINST FOR MOBILISATION
Nanking, July 30 (12.00).
"Beyond the limit of my four points there can be no possibility of compromise or submission," declared Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, China's chief executivė and military leader last night in a statement to the Press. He was referring to the "four points" made during the negotiations at Tientsin for a settlement in North China, the chief of which was that China's sovereignty and territorial rights be respected.
"The policy of our Government has been consistent from beginning to end: namely, that we cannot surrender
Eight ravenous fires are lighting the sky above the Chinese city any territory or allow our sovereignty to be encroached here, following prolonged bombardment.
The two bridge entrances, across the Haiho River, to the Foreign Concessions. are guarded to-day by foreign troops, with rifles and machine-guns, behind sand-bag emplacements.
At the end of the International Bridge is a strong sand-bag defence works, manned by French troops. In front of the position are barbed wire entanglements, and behind it is a squat, ugly tank.
Last night a French Army sergeant arrested two Chinese who were attempting to install a machine-gun nest under the International Bridge.
At present the situation is quiet.
At 3 a.m. to-day Chinese artillery resumed the bombardment of the Japanese Concession.-United Press.
UNIVERSITY
BLAZING
Tientsin, July 30 (12.18 a.m.). After four hours of intensive bombing, the Japanese planes went to earth last night, leaving Nankai University aflame after a four-hour bombardment. The University suffered the most extensive damage. The flames are visible for miles.
At present all is quiet.
..
British, American and Belgian Consul-Generals are endeavouring to mediate between the Chinese and Japanese, on behalf of the Consular Body, with the object of securing a cessation of hostilities. Up to now their efforts have not been effectual, largely owing to the diffleulty of communication with the respective parties and to the breaches of faith-Reuter.
ITALIANS IN ACTION
Tientsin, July 30.
At 7.40 a.m. to-day Italian troops opened fire in order to dislodge ol the snipers from the boundary concession It is their duty to defend.
Japanese
reconnoitring planes
are drawing the city the occasional fire of Chinese troops.
over
The fires in the Chinese clty are diminishing. The rain which helped quench them has erased.
The tension continues in the con- cessions.becnuse of the uncertain conditions outside.-United Press.
BRIDGE DESTROYED Shanghal, July 20. According to a Tientsin despatch, the Luen River railway bridge has been destroyed by the Chinese Peace Preservation Corps, thus preventing the Japanese from rushing up rein- forcements.
Japan Fleet
May Strike
China Coast
Shanghai, July 30.
The Commander of the Third Japanese Fleet, Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, has given warning that his warships will take the be compelled "to necessary steps to Carry oul their duty of preserving peace in the Far East" unless the Chinese authorities acted to prevent the further extension of the anti-Japanese movement.--
United Press.
Japanese Won't Enter Peiping
Promise Given To Chang Tse-chung
Pelping. July 30. General Chang Tse-chung, the man who surrendered Peiping to the Japanese, said to-day that Colonel Malsul, chief of the Japanese Special Service in the old capital. had given him assurances
inces yesterday that Japan- ese troops would not enter the city, providing Chinese troops withdrew.
He said the total casualties of the 20th Army since July 7 were 15,000 dead and wounded.
Martial law will be abolished to- night.-Reuter.
PLANES ACTIVE
Japanese
Paotingful, July 20.
upon," the Marshal asserted.
He emphasised that he was the highest political and military authority In China, and therefore responsible tor the present conditions in North China.
"General Sung Cheb-yuan must not receive the blame alone," de- clared Marshal Chiang,
Marshal Chiang called upon the natlon "to mobilize our total re- sources and struggle hand in hand to. save our country. I believe my comrades at this critical juncture will fight to the end.
"Regarding resistance against the Japanese, I have decided upon all uccessory arrangements," he con-
eluded.
Nanking officials interpret Marshal Chiang's statement not as a notifica- tion of severance of relations with Japan. But one official said: "If there is anything like that it will be the next step; but it is not being taken now." United Press.
Blames Himself
Nanking, July 30.
conditions laid down in his statement of July 19, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, interviewed to-day, gave assurances that the North Chlon fighting did not necessarily mean a war. It was not important from a military standpoint.
He said he was making plans to justify the hope and confidence of the Chinese public, however.
Commenting on the report that the Japanese Government was ready to open negotiations, the Generalissimo declared there could be no negotia- tions unless the Japanese respected the four conditions he had laid down on July 10. Furthermore, from now on there would be no more "local settlements," he declared.
The question of settlements was a national issue and the Chinese Gov- ernment and people must devote all resources towards the facing of the crisis.
Marshal Chiang pointed out that after the Lukouchino incident he had given General Sung Cheh-yuan orders Holding himseit responsible for the which had been disobeyed, with the
declaring no result that what Pelping debacle, and
happened negotiations with Japan are possible July 27 was to be expected,— untess that nation respects the tour | Reuter,
INSURGENT
OFFENSIVE CHECKED
Loyalists Claim Successes In Cordoba Sector
Moors Are Classed As Volunteers
Russia Insists On Withdrawal From Spanish War
Madrid, July 20.
London, July 29. The Insurgents have completely
The Russian reply to the British failed to make any further advance, proposals for the preservation of the despite the capture of Brunete, non-intervention arrangement in according to a Government com- Spain insists that General Francisco munique.
Franco's Moorish troops be classed in In
numerous successes, having repulsed these is concerned.
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INJURING CHINA
Eden Asked If League
Of
Nations Helpless
To Protect Members
London, July 29,
Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, guardedly disclosed in the House of Commons to-day that Great Britain had warned Japan that she did not approve of fur- ther attempts to detach provinces of China.-United Press. OMINOUS PARALLEL
London, July 29.
Mr. C. R. Attice, leader of the Labour Opposition, referred in the House of Commons to-day to the omious parallel to Japan's Manchuria adventure as shown in the Far Eastern situation to- day. He asked whether the Foreign Minister proposed to take any steps with regard to action by the League of Nations and asked whether the Chinese Government had appealed to the League.
50 Killed In
Rail Wreck Near Paris
Paris, July 30.
Fifty persons are reported to have been killed and many In- jured in a railway disaster Villaneuve St. Georges, about 15 miles from Paris.
at
No details of the tragedy are yet avaliable-Reuter.
Big Yachts Preparing For Contest
Ranger Favoured To Retain America's Cup For U.S.
Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, agreed that the situation was serious, but as far as he was aware, he added, no Government had asked that the matter be referred to the League,
He explained there were special clrcumstances in the cang. Japan and the United States were not members Britisit of the League, are the Government wan hot prepared at present to take the initiative in the
Intervention. matter of
a
non-
Mr. Attleeked whether that meant that the League was power- less to act i a League member
from suffered aggression member. Mr. Eden repiled he did not think that was a fair deduction. The Foreign Secretary repented that there were exceptional circum- stances in the Far Eastern situation. He was welt aware that Article XVII of the Covenant of the League made mandatory provision for bringing non-members into a dispute, but that depended upon the co-operation of non-members.
So.
Asks For Expression
Of Disapproval
Capt, W. Wedgwood Benn asked Mr: Eden to make it cleur to the Japanese Government that the Brl- tish Government would not approve the detachment of further provinces from Nanking's sovereignty.
Eden Mr. replied that he would do He added that during the past iwo days various declarations had His Majesty's Govern- been made. ment much regretted the situation because it had hoped for an improve- the Far Eastern political ment in position. This could not occur while present conditions continued, said Mr. Eden.
planes are reported to heavy fighting in the Cordoba the same category as other foreign for the Americas Cup races, which the
sector, the Government claims volunteers, whet
where withdrawal of
the very Belive in the immediate vicinity of Paotingfu.
Early this morning, a squadron of 15 planes was seen flying south of munique, the Nationalists westward the city. Later, at 11 a.m., another advanco on the southern Aragon front Japanese plane was seen flying along continues, with the forward troops the Peiping-Hankow Railway. At 7 forty miles from Teruel. o'clock this evenlog a Japanese
VESSEL TORPEDOED
Keeping Touch With French Government
Newport (R.I.), July 29, The playground of millionaires bas been transformed into a floating city are starting on Saturday, between the Nationalists with heavy losses. Russia also refuses to grant belliger- Mr. T. C
Mr. Harold Vanderbilt's Ranger and II. 0. According to a Salamanca com
M. Sopwith's Endeavour ent rights to the parties in Spala, at The
races will start daily at op- least until all volunteers, including proxi the Moors, are withdrawn.
proximately 11.30 a.m. (B.S.T.),
The Foreign Secretary told the Meanwhile, offcials here confirm apart from Sundays and days when
a rest. The House he had been in constant touch either skipper wants that a memorandum, carrying the The Nationalists estimated that lost Western Pact conversations a stage course is over thirty miles of open with the French Government, bui bomber appeared over the south-week they occupied four hundred further and reviewing the present
sea, fifteen miles windward and fee- he had never suggested to that the French east corner of Hopel Province. After square miles in this arco-Reuter
ward, or vice versa, for the first, Government, nor hod position, was handed the Belglan, third and seventh races, and a ten-mentioned, that the moment was ripe scouting for a short while the airman Bulletin.
French, German and Italian Govern-
course for the for reference to the League. mile triangular. opened fire with his machine gun,
ments a few days ago..
Geoffrey Mander asked (Continued on Page 4.)
Signor Benito Mussolini, Italian, second, fourth and sixth.
Victory will got to the first boat to whether the calling of signatories to The latest development in the
Paris, July 20.
Power Dictator, hos accepted the British plan
win four races. It will be "no race" the Paris Pact and Nine situation at Peiping since the revolt
One of three Spanish cargo ships for preventing the Intervention of it more than five and a half hours is Treaty had been considered. of General Shek Yu-ahan's forces, is
Mr. Eden replied that en route to Spain from France is re-powers in Spain with one reservation, taken in sailing,
wns the not clear. General Li Wan-tlen,
ported to have been sunk by a sub- which it is believed refers to the
case, and that consideration had been Commander of the Chinese Peace an official communique to-day. Their
marine of unknown nationality off execution of
proposals
ODDS ON RANGER regarding the
given all these matters. Preservation Corps at Tientalin, has corpses have not yet been recovered.
withdrawal The city of Tienisin was subjected
of volunteers and the definitely declared that he will fight
the north coast of Spain.
The competing boats are almost The other two vessels, were also granting of beillgerent rights, the end against the Japanseee to very heavy hombing by a score of Japanese planes to-day. The Muni-
The feature of the Russian reply to identical. Ranger is sightly the shor-journment cipal Government bulldings, the Dia-
attacked but refused to surrender
ter of the two, and two tons heavier, Generals Sung Chch-yuan, Chinmond Bridge, the Police Headquarters
when nearing port Reuter Bulletin. the British non-intervention proposala
is the insistence that General Franco's The odds are at least two to one on Teh-chun and other high officials of buildings and the Chungshan Public
FRANCO RECOGNISED Moroccan troops should be classed in Ranger, the view being taken that the 20th. Army safely arrived at Park have been badly damaged, while Poatingfu this morning at 3 o'clock the Eastern Railway Station and
the same category as foreign volun- she is the faster boat. She has won Madrid, July 29.
teers, and be withdrawn. The Soviet all fifteen trial races so far sailed, Wah Kiu Yat Po.
several other public buildings are on
General Del Lano has announced also refuses to grant belligerent rights with a better crew and more cx- BESIEGED fre. Numerous casualties have been
that Switzerland has recognised Gen- at present, on the grounds that they perienced skipper, but in an unre- CENTRAL GOVERNMENT|inflicted on the civilian population.
Shanghai, July 30. eral Franelsco Franco's regime. would upset the foundations of the hearsed encounter the other day, All means of communienilons, Includ- The Domel correspondent at Tient- | Reuter Bulletin.
pan-intervention policy. But Russla Endeavour II appeared equal, if sho TROOPS ARRIVE
Ing telephone nervice
the sin states that Japanese reinforce-
is open to reconsideration of this did not actually outsall the American cicy, are entirely dislocated.ments are en route to Tungchow,
attitude when all volunteers are with yacht. where mulinous members of the
drawn, it is pointed out.. Peace Preservation Corps are be HEAVY CASUALTIES sleging the small Japanese garrison.
The Shanghal-Tientsin telegraph
to
forces,
Tionisin, July 29. A largo detachment of Central Hua Nan News. Government troops has arrived in the suburbs of Tientsin. They have been positiona quickly rushed to various
where reinforcements are badly need- ett.
Central Government planes arrived simultaneously with Wah Khu Yat Po.
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Tientsin, July 30.
STOP PRESS
JAPANESE TROOPS
41 short
CLIPPER AGAIN DELAYED
to the British
ins
In
Since the achooner America won Otherwise, the Soviet accepts In substance the British proposals, like the race in 1851 at Cowes, Britain has Germany Italy and France, which made vain effects to recapture the At least 2,000 Chinese elvillang in cable has been cut, after
somo spent
£2,000,000 The departure of the Hongkong nations, however, make reservations trophy. It is reckoned that Britain
certain directions. in the Chinese City were killed or serie resumption.-United Press.
Clipper has again been postponed Few replies
challenging and America £5,000,000 ously wounded as a result of indis- Loopserimate bombing by Japanese planes CHIANG'S TROOPS FOR ther between here and Manlia. Sheceived, and these from the smaller
for 24 hours, owing to typhoon wea- memorandum yet remain to be re-In defending.
and Ranger cosi about £00,000 will take off at the usual hour to marrow,
diately, and they are expected imme-Endeavour II about £30,000. This is Britain's sixteenth attempt on the Registered mali closes at 5 p.m. to-
The sub-committee of the Non-life of "the old mug," which is worth In yesterday's fighting in Tientsin, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has order-morrow.
The Domei Agency reports that day and ordinary mail at 6 am. to- Intervention Committee under Lord less than £100, neither side scored any big successed Central Government troops to The Japanese Concession suffered heavy damage by Chinese artillery march north from Pastingfu~United fire, which played an important part
FIGHTING AT TAKU
Tientsin, July 20. Severo fighting is in progress at Taku following the landing of a large
yesterday. Corpses are to be seen strewn all over the streets, while some buildings have been reduced to smouldering runs.
in the Chinese attacke throughout.
number of Japanese marines from two destroyers, which are also using their guns in support of the marines.
The death of General Chao Teng- Heavy Japanese air bombing of the yu, Commander of the 32nd Division, Chinese poslton was maintained un- and another high ofleer, General til the evening. But by nightfall there Tung Lin-ko, in the recent battles at was a lull except for sporadie rifle Nanyuan and Tuanho is revealed in - fire-Hua Nan News,
NORTH
Shanghai, July 30, (10.42 a.m.).
Press,
A FITTER BRITAIN
Londen, July 20. The National Advisory Council for Physical Training and Recreation, in furtherance of its campaign for a fliler Dritain, is setting up twenty- two area committees in England and Walos British Wireless,
Plymouth meets to-morrow after- noon.-Reuter.
CAMBRIA DEPARTS
London, July 29. The Imperial Airways Uner Cambria left Foynes for Botwood, Newfoundland, at seven o'clock this | evening.==British Wireless.
RANGER BEATEN
To-day, Endeavour 1 defeated Ranger, the defender of the Cup in Eastern Yacht Club's raco· over' a course from Vineyard Haven to Now- port.
Endeavour won by ninety seconds from Yankee and three minutes from Ranger,~~~fleuter. --
Mr. Attlee gave notice he would raise the subject of China in the ad-
to-morrow.
Reuter,
debate
Naval Treaty Now In Force
London, July 20. The treaty of limitation of naval- armaments, which demands the inter
Information regarding change of in London In March, 1936, will come Projected naval construction, algned into force forthwith.
Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India deposited their instruments of ratification at the Foreign Office to-day. The United States and France had pre- viously deposited these ratincations.
-Reuter.
DUKE VISITS BOYS' CLUBS
London, July, 20. The Duke of Gloucester to-day completed the first part of his two days' tour of Boys Clubs in twelve of the big Lancashire industrial | centres.--Britiah" "Wireless,