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TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 28, 1937.
DUKE AND Enemy Praise DUCHESS TO For Defenders SAIL NOV.6 Of Nanking
Travelling Aboard
German Liner
Paris, Oct. 27.
Fliers Say City Hard To Attack
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Tokyo or
are sailing for New York on the Bremen on November 6.
Speaking at an informal luncheon of the Anglo-Amerlenn Press Asso- ciation to-day, the Duke suld he wished to make it clear that he went to America as an independent obser- ver, and without any poitical con- alderations.
"I am now a very happily married forward and expands with the in-mon," he said, "but neither my wife nor 1 is willing to lead a life of leisure.
We hope to be able to gain experience on our travels in regard to the problems which beset the world to-day."-Reuter's Special.
C.I.O. Rejects Peace Plan
U.S. Labour Parloy Calls Recoss
More
Osaka Vulnerable
Shanghal, Oct. 28. Tokyo and Omka are more vulner- able to air attacks in comparison with Nanking, states the Tokyo Nieht. Nicht. The statement is based on an Interview with First-Lieut. Kakulchi Takahashi, First-Lieut. Addao Shirat and Lieut.-Commander, ideji Otsuka of the Japanese navy, who took part in aerial attacks on Nanking recently. The officers praised the attempls of Chinese in Nanking to defend the city but pointed out that Nanking is on advantage naturally placed ot
The elty is far against air attacks. Inland and surrounded by hills where anti-aircraft batteries may be insint- ed, and most of the buildings gie wholly or partly constructed of non- Inflammable materials, such as re- inforced concrete, tiles and stone.
creased need. When the Japanese neroplanes bombed Proting. the Association building was slightly damaged, and the Y.M.C.A. but for soldiers at the railway station was entirely destroyed, with two servants killed After the Chinese army re- treated southward, Shihchluchuang immediately became the object of Japanese bombardinent. The result was our service centre un the Pelping-Bankow fire was bombed Fortunately, than and destroyed. workers escaped to a dug-out and thus narrowly saved their lives.
Compared with the Chinese build- These workers instead of giving up,
ings, the wooden structures in Japan- continued their work with courage,
ese cities would be extremely cay to Realising it was impossible to con-
Het afre. The officers mentioned the tinue in Shihchimbing, the secret- aries in charge removed the service
tact that, in spite of repeated Japan- Pro- centre to Chunnteh in Honan
Washington, Oct. 27. ese ralds, a fourth of the population vince. From Chuuarleh new centres
The Conference between the Cem- still remains in Nanking and the have been opened up in Hantan,mittee of Industrial Organisation and Covernment is still there entrying Wethwel, Hochten, Taming. Shing the American Federation of Labour out its functions.
slang and Chinotso, where service went into recess for a week to-day A notable disadvaninge for Tokyo of the "Y.M.C.A. hut" type will be after the CLO. had Batly rejected for Osaka would be their situation near stations and in the peace proposal of the Federation, the sea, which means that anti-air- given in railway places where soldiers pass through. which had previously rejected the craft guns could not be mounted at
Mr. Hsino Wel-chien, former C.L.D.'s demands on Tuesday.
The Federation demanded the dis-News Agency.
n level above the city-International General Secretary of the Felping Y.M.C.A. and now serving as field-
solution of the C.I.O., and that the director for this Emergency reflet rebel unions should join the Federa work in the North Chl region, has tion without any loss of rights. It recently gone to Shansi to extend the
was also demanded that the conter- Word has come
eace determine the disposition of the work in that sectiou from Talyuanfu that two clubs for membership the C.I.O. had organised wounded soldiers in two centres near which has broken away from the Taiyuan, each with 1,580 wounded Federation-United Press. soldiers, have already been establish-
ed.
SOOCHOW SECTION
The latest word from Mr. L. M. Liu in charge of the emergency ser- vice to soldiers in the Soochow area, reports that twelve clubs for wouid- ed soldiers have been established in the hospitals in and wear Souchow, six in Soochow City, four in Mott und two in Suikow. An officers' club is being conducted in the Soochow Y.AC.A. building. In this area a staff of eleven secretaries with a group of volunteers, are handling the activities,
H.K.. COMMITTEE RESPONDS Early in Shptember the National Emergency Relief Committee received a request from the China Medical
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20.000 undergarments for wounded soldiers. This request was forward- ed to all Y.M.C.A.'s throughout China. When the Hongkong Emergency Rellet Committee received word of this need, it immediately enlisted the ion of alf seven organizations up the General Committee. Now it is glad to repart from Hong- kong alone, 14,000 suits have already been forwarded to headquarters in Shanghai, and another 8,000 sults are ready to be shipped. The estimated cost of each sult, including cloth and labour, is approximately $1.00. Thu Hongkong has gone "over the top" and secured the total that was originally asked for the movement all over China. Word received from other city associations reveal similar enthusiastic response, even those citles in the war zone.
FUNDS STILL REQUIRED
The Hongkong Emergency Relief Committee has to date reeelved something over H.K. cur. $17,000. The need for funds continues. The total estimated budget for n tenta- Ch. iive six months perlod was $200,000.
Many ciles in China proper are now unable to raise funds for this relief work because of their own suffering due to repeated bomb- ings.
. All agencies at work in Hongkong will welcome a continuation of sup- port, both from Chinese and Euro-
friends. pran
Contributions are being forwarded every two weeks to the and should be sent elther Chairman, David W. K. Au, Bank of Chinese Canton or direct to the YW.C.A. or Chinese Y.M.C.A.
MARKET'S TONE IMPROVES
Londan, Oct. 27. Improvement in the International to and policital outlook helped maintain yesterday's prices on the London Stock Exclmige, and there was a better undertone.
Nevertheless the business done was negligible, apart from sustained investment
support for git-edged stocks and a few high-class indus- trials. These, together with a fur- ther demand for For Eastern luons, featured the strength of the market. -Reuter's Special,
·SIAM LEGATION FOR BERLIN
Berlin, Oct. 27. The establishment of a Siomese testation in Berlin is announced.
The new
Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Phrasundara Vachana was received by Baron von Neurath yesterday.
Hitherto the Siamese legation in London has included Germany in its territory-Router:
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MADRID REVOLT DENIED
Loyalists Charge Women Executed
Nationalists' Response
St. Jean de Luz, Oct. 27. Unconfirmed reports state that a rection of the Madrid population re- volted last night.
Fighting broke out in the streets when belated reports of the fall of Gijon and the transfer of the Govern- ment to Barcelona renched the city, -United Press.
CITY QUIET
Madrid, Oct. 27. The Governmnet has categorically denied there has been any revolt in Madrid. A United Press representa- tive found the city quiet.-United Preas.
Hendaye, Oct. 27. The Loyalists have claimed that 27 women, imprisoned In San Sebastian, on charges of have been executed espionage.
The Insurgents, responding to the Anglo-French appeal for humane treatment of the Asturians, observe "the Nationalists are always humane." They have protested that Fronco has violated her neutrality by per- mitting 10,000 Asturiana to escape to France, and to recross the border to rejoin the Loyalists at. Aragon.~~ United Press,
SCHACHT STILL AT MINISTRY
RESIGNATION NOW
POSTPONED
Berlin, Oct. 27.
An announcement has been made that the resignation of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, from the Ministry of Economics, of which, he has been the nominal head for the last 18 months, hor been postponed.
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An air route from England to Hongkong, via the Polar roula ustel by Soviet airmen in the recent record flights, with Canada as the mid- way Junction, is envisaged by Mr. 8. J. Hungerford, Chairman of the Canadian National Railways, and president of the Trans-Canada Air Line. Mr. Hungerford, who is inspecting (Dehring Straits. This roule lo Hong- development of air services wasthan the existing Pan-American Air- more or less complementary to that ways service ncross the Podfic, and of railways.
it would be possible to y from Within a year a daily air service Hongkong to Londen by either the would be in operation across Canada, proposed Atlantic flying boal service Buenos Aires, Oct. 27. from the Argentine for from coast to coast.
with a flight schedule of 17 hours or via the proposed Ilussian trans- polar service, in 4 days, os com- the first nine months of 1937 amount- [from
It was almost inevitable, he said,pared with the seven days it takes ed to 1,071,000,000 pesos, which is
that Canada would be joined up to fly via Penang, and the 5% days an increase of 65 per cent.com- pared with the same period in 1938. with Hongkong, thus closing another it will take to By via the existing Imports amounted to 1,120,000,000 link in the chain of British airways Pacific route and thence across the pesos an increase of 35.9 per cent. around the world. The route would American continent and the Atlan
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