THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 28, 1937.
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Chinese "Y" Doing Brave War Service
Workers Risk Lives To Take Comfort To Soldiers
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Response
In Hongkong
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MEDIATION PLAN OBSTRUCTED BY JAPAN DECISION
Washington, Oct. 27.
Japan's refusal to attend the Nine-Power Conference is
Enemy Praise For Defenders Of Nanking
Fliers Say City Hard To Attack
considered as making it very dificult, if not impossible, to Tokyo
achieve President Roosevelt's avowed aim of having the con- ference mediate between the combatanis,
or Osaka More Vulnerable
Shanghai, Oct. 28.
President Roosevelt is also disturbed by the fear that Isolationist opinion, which was calmed by his announcement that peaceful mediation was the Brussels conference, might be aroused by the four of the United States being drawn into at-Nicht. The statement in bared on on tempts at coercive measures.
replace mediation have scarcely been con- sidered.
Want measures
theReuter.
might
No Prolongation Likely
Brussels, Oct. 27
DUKE AND
DUCHESS TO SAIL NOV. 6
Travelling Aboard · German Liner
Paris, Oct. 27.
Tokyo and Osaka are more vulner- able to air attacks in comparison with Nanking dates the Tokyo Nichi interview with First-Livut. Kakuichi Takahashi, First-Lieut. Addao Shiral id Licut-Commander Hide Otsuka of the Japanese navy, who took part in nerlal attacks on Nanking recently, The officers praised the attempts nf Chinese in Nanking to defend the elty but pointed out that Nanking is naturally placed at in advantage The city is far against air attacks. inland and surrounded by hills where anti-aircraft batteries may be install ed, and most of the buildings are wholly UT partly constructed of non- Inflammable materials, such 43 TE
concrete, tiles and stone.
intorted with the Chinese build-
Notwithstanding retreats and ad- vances, gundre and bombing, the Y.M.CA.. Emergency Relief Work among the Chiese troops inovca forward uni expands with the in- creased need. When the Japanese CSC aeroplanes bombed Photing.
the Wan slightly Association bulking
A peaceful gesture of disapproval, damaged, and the Y.M.C.A. hut for such as the withdrawal of Ambas- soldiers at the railway station was madars, might be expected to come up entirely destroyed, with two servants for consideration at a later stage, but 1;}llcl. After the Chinese army re- there in every indication the Govern- treated southward, Shitchfachung men has not tied the hands of the Immediately became the object of United States delegation by any prior Japanese Lombardment. The result consideration of polley along this line.
ON centro service Peping-llankow line was bombed and destroyed. Fortunately, the workers escaped to a dug-out and thus narrowly suved their lives.
It is not believed that an adjourn- These workers instead of giving up,
ment of the opening of the Nine- continued their work with courage. Reallsing it was impossible to con- Power Conference will necessarily 227 tinue in Shichinchuang, the serret-prolong proceedings, because origin- aries in charge removed the service ally it was planned that the Arst October 30 would be centre to Chuanteh in Honan Pro- meeting on
Government is still there carrying vince. From Chunntel new centres merely formal to decide whether in- have been opened up
vitalions should be sent to Russia and of the Anglo-American Press Asso-out its functions. Hantan,
sald he after which there would clation to-day, the Duke Shing Germany, afte
A notable disadvantage for Tokyo Wellwel, Hochlen. Tanlng. halang and Chinotso, where service be an adjournment for three days to wished to make it clear that he went or Osaka would be their situation near two to Amerien as an Independent obser- the sen, which means that anti-air- of the “Y.M.C.A. hut" type will be await the replies from those
and given in railway stations
Governments.
ver, and without any politicot con-craft guns could not be mounted at siderations.
a level above the city-International places where soldiers pass through.
Mr. Isino Wel-chlen, former General Secretary of the Feiping Y.M.C.A. and now serving as field director for this Emergency rallel work in the North Chinn region, has recently gone to Shansi to extend the work in that section. Word has earne from Talyunnfu that two clubs for wounded soldiers in two centres near Tatyann, each with 1,500 wounded sollers, have already been establish- d.
in
tan,
in
that It is understood, however, Rusato and Germany have now been through <liptomatic approached
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are calling for New York on the Bremen on November (.
Speaking at on informat luncheon
ings, the wooden structures in Japan- ese cities would be extremely easy to set afire. The officers mentioned the fact that, in spite of repeated Japan- ese raids, a fourth of the population still remains in Nanking and
"I am now a very happily married News Agency. channels, and it may be possible to man," he said, "but neither my wife to lead a te of arrange for their representatives to nor 1 Is willing
be present as soon as the formuleisure-We hope to be able to gain opening meeting has confirmed the experience on our travels in regard to the problems which beset the Invitations.-Reuter,
world to-day."---Renter's Special.
Advisory Body Waits
Geneva, Oct. 27. The meeting of the Far East Ad-
which was visory Committee, have been held nbout November 5, has been postponed indefinitely unti
conference is over- the Brussels Reuter.
Invitations To Be Sent
Brussels, Oct. 27.
SOOCHOW SECTION The latest word from Mr. L. M. Lit in charge of the emergency ser- vice to soldiers in the Soochow area, reports that twelve clubs for wound- cd soldiers have been established in the hospitals in and near Soochow six in Soochow City, four in Motu:
The Belgian. Government has de- and two in Sulkow, An officers' club cided to send an invitation lo-morrow is being conducted in the Soochow to Germany and Russin to attend the Y.M.CA. buliding. In this area Nine-Power Conference. staff of eleven secretaries with a It is understood this step has been group of volunteers, are handling the taken in agreement with the other activities.
lowers and signatories to the Nine- Fower Pact who are attending the
H.K. COMMITTEE RESPONDS Early in September the National Energency Relief Committee received Medical a request from the China Association to secure a minimum of 20,000 undergarments for wounded
conference.--Reuter.
British Cabinet Meets
London, Oct. 27. The Cabinet Bat for two and a halk
C.I.O. Rejects Peace Plan
U.S. Labour Parley Calls Recess
Washington, Oct. 27.
The Conference between the Com- mittee of Industrial Organisation and the American Federation of Labour went into recess for a week to-day after the C.IO. had flatly rejected the peace proposal of the Federation, which had previously rejected the CLO's demands on Tuesday.
The Federation demanded the dis-
Liberals Table Amendment Continued Debate On
Throne Speech
London, Oct. 27.
The debale on the Address from the Throne was opened by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, for the Labour Opposi tion to-day. Mr. Lloyd George is expected to speak to-morrow when Mr. Noel Balter opens for Labour. and Lord Cranborne and Mr. Waiter Elliot will reply for the Government.
soldiers. This request was forward- hours this morning and for an hour solution of the C.1.0., and that the omission from the King's Speech of
Mediation Difficult
London Oct. 27. Regret is felt at Japan's refusal to attend the Nine-Power Conference.
ed to all Y.M.C.A.' throughout China, and a quarter this afternoon.
It is understood the discussion con- When the
Emergency Hongkong Rellet Committee received word of cerned the Far Eastern situation this need, it immediately enlisted the Reuter. cooperation of all seven organizations making up the General Committee. Now.ii.in glad. to, report from, Hong kong alone, 14,000 sults have already been forwarded to headquarters in Shanghai, and another 6,000 suits are
Attention is drawn to the ready to be shipped. The estimated fact that Japan's absence from the cost of each suit, including cloth and conference will make very dimeult Inbour, is approximately $1.00. Thus the application of any decision such Hongkong has gone "over the top" as mediation. and secured the total that WIS
llowever, it is assumed that some originally asked for the movement intermediary will inform Tokyo of all over China. Word received from the Conference's progress---possibly, other city associations reveal similar enthusiastic response, cven those cities in the war zone.
cur.
Germany-United Press.
British Representative
London, Oct. 27.
Sir Samuel Hoare will speak on Friday and on Monday, and after Mr.
Anthony Buen Hugh Dator, Mr. and Mr. Clement Attlee have spoken, the the debate will be wound up by Prime Minister, or, if he is still pre- vented from attending by his attack of rout, by Sir John Simon.
Mr. Greenwood complained of the rebel unions should join the Federa-reference to the League of Nations, tion without any loss of rights,
unemployment and the distressed was also demanded that the confer ence determine the disposition of the areas, which he sought to interpret
of as evidence
the Government's membership the C.I.O. had organised which has broken
disinterest in these questions.. away from the Federation. United Press.
GOVERNMENT REPLY Sir Kingsley Wood said it was per
tho Government's fectly evident
on the foreign polley was founded League of Nations, and it would be generally agreed no Foreign Secre- tury had shown greater devotion, or given such unvarying service to the
than League couse
Mr. Anthony Eden.
Helping China From Abroad
Nationals Organise For Defence®
FUNDS STILL REQUIRED
Berlin, Oct. 27. Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Serre- The Hongkong Emergency Relief
A meeting of delegates from Chinese received fary, stated in the House of Commons communities in Europe has decided to Committee has to date
$17,000, to-day that Britain would be repre-form a "League Of Chinese Abroad something over H.K. The need for funds continues. The rented at the Far Eastern Conference For The Defence Of The Nation lolal estimated budget for a tenta- at Brussels on November 3 by him- self, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Sccre- six months period $200,000. Many ellies in China tary of State for the Dominions, and proper are now unable to raise funds Sir Alexander Cadogan, former Am- for this relief work because of their bassador to Pelping-Reuter. own suffering due to repeated bomb- ings.
tive
Ch. was
All agencies at work in Hongkong will welcome a continuation sup- port, both from Chinese and Euro- peun friends. Contributions being forwarded every two weekn and should be sent either to the Chairman David W. K. Au, Bank of Chinese Canton or direct to the Y.W.C.A. or Chinese Y.M.C.A.
MARKET'S TONE IMPROVES
London, Oct. 27. Improvement in the International
outlook and policital
helped to
London Stock Exchange, and there was a better undertone.
Duke Plans To Visit Colony
Hongkong. Included In
Duke of Windsor's Latest Itinerary
Confirmation of the report that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will shortly visit Hongkong. recently published in the Telegraph, been, given by Cornelius Vanderbilt
Times.
The new league will be imbued with the political views of Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek.-Reuter.
BRITISH ASSISTANCE
London, Oct. 27. The famous shipping house of Lloyds has made a contribution of £5,000 to the Lord Mayor's Fund for the relief of distress In China- Reuter.
SCHACHT STILL AT MINISTRY
RESIGNATION NOW
· POSTPONED
Derlin, Oct. 27.
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pro-
Turning to other questions the Minister of Health recalled that Mr. Greenwood himself had recently said that no other country had done mere since the war to deal with the housing problem than Britain. The intest figures showed that 3,350,000 new houses had been completed since the Armistice. House-building local
by authorities was still on the Increase and the 70,000 houses under con- strueilon by local authorities of the end of September was
an all-time record. The slum clearances gramme was being energetically currled through and already 059,00D alum dwellers were in new and better homes. Minister of Health forecast further On the nutritional problem, the
authorities encouragement to local to supply milk or favourable terms mothers to.expectant and nursing
and school children.
Replying to an interjection by Lady Astor while he was speaking on maternal mortality, Sir Kingsley Wood sall he had appointed a con- mittee under the chairmanship of Mr. Nonnan Birkett to consider the problent of abortion.
Acland, Sir Francis
for the Liberals, bald he thought the clue to the right pulley in the Sino-Japanese confilet was to be sought in the words of President Roosevelt: "There must be concerted effort." That was the path of safety and of Success In
An announcement has been made Schachi, President of the Reichsbanke, According to the Los Angeles from the Ministry of Economies, of Nevertheless the business dong Times the Duke and Duchess are which he has been the nominal head was negligible, apart from sustained planning to stay at the home of for the last 18 months, fas been investment support for gilt-edged Marion Davies, the famous film postponed. stocks and a few high-class indus- actress, at Santa Monica, and at the trials. These, together with fur- San
Simeon ranch ot Whilam ther demand for For Eastern loans, Bandolph Hearst, the newspaper featured the strength of the markel magnate. -Reuter's Special.
The-visit to Califamla is to be in the first two weeks of December.
After this visit, the Duke will represent a business Arm on a world
maintain yesterday's prices on the writing in the Los Angeles that the resignation of Dr. Hjalmar bringing an end to the dreadful war
This, apparently, is due to the fact that the re-organisation of the ministry has not yet been completed.
leuter.
ARGENTINE TRADE cruise, which will commence from SIAM LEGATION
LEAPS UPWARD
San Francisco. The Duke, necom- panied by his wife, will proceed to! Honolulu, and will travel from there
FOR BERLIN !
to Japan, China, Hongkong, the Buenos Aires, Oct. 27. Philippines and Singapore. It is
Berlin, Oct. 27. Exports from the Argentine for probable that from Singapore the The establishment of Siamese the first nine months of 1937 amount. Duke and Duchess will proceed to legation in Berlin in announced, ed to 1,071,000,000 pesos, which is Australia.
Chorge d'Affaires, Mr, an increase of 65 per cent. com Vincent Astor's pololini yacht wili Pkrasundara Vachana was received pared with the samin perfod in 1930, be placed at the Duke's disposal by Baron von Neurath yesterday.
Imports amounted to 1,120,000,000 while he is in the United States, but Hitherto the Siamese legation in peses an increase of 30.0 per cent, he is not expected to use this vessel London has Included Germany in its
Reuter's Special
whilst on his world tour.
torrllory-Reuter.
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LIBERAL PARTY AMENDMENT
The Liberal Parliamentary Party amendment to the has, tabled an Address regretting that the gracious speech contains no indication that the Government is taking adequate steps to provide against a poralble diminution of employment occurring elther on completion of, or in the process of armament, or through a period of commercial depression, Arptly by the prosecution of active mensures in concert with the Domin- lons, the United States and 'other countries, to reduce economic barriers to world trade; secondly by promot- nga fuller development of backward Industries; and thirdly by the ond proparation of examination definite plans for employing people on the construction of capital worka of national Importance, and the uulitsation of national resources nt present neglected.-British Wireless,
MADRID REVOLT DENIED
Loyalists Charge Women Executed Nationalists'. Response
St. Jean de Luz, Oct. 27, Unconfirmed reports state that a section 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 reached 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. "Press.
Hendaye, Oct. 27. The Loyalists lave claimed that 27 women, imprisoned in San Sebastian, have been executed on charges of explonage.
The Insurgents, responding to the for humane Anglo-French appeal treatment of the Asturians, observe "the Nationalists are always humane."
They have protested that France has violated her neutrality by per- mitting 10,000 Asturians to escape to France, and to recross the border to
Aragon
rejoin the Loyalists t Ulted Press,
'SHARE PRICES
The following is the list of local share quatalions issued this morning. Bunks.
HK. Banks, $1,575 b.
1.K. Banka, Len. Reg.). £97 n. Chartered Bank, £13 n
Mercantile Bank, A. and B. £32 n.
n.
Mercantile Bank, C., £15 n.
East Asia Bank, $00 n.
Insurances.
Canton In., $250 n.
Union In, $308 b. China Underwriters, $1. H.K. Fire In, $235 n.
Shipping
Douglas, $48 m.
H.K. Steamboata, $0 8. Indo-Chines (Pret.), $51 b. Indo-Chinas (Dof.), $43 b. Shell (Bearer), 100/7 n. Unlon Waterboats, $0.30 n.
Docks etc. H.K, & W. Wharves, $113 b. H.K. & Docks, $28 n. Providents $2.15 3. Providents (new),
32% c. n.
New Engineering, Sh Shanghai Docks, Sh. -
Mining.
Kallan Mining Adm. 14/- n. Raubs, $8 11,
Venz: Goldäck $5 n.
Philippine Alining. Antamok, P. 32
Atoks, P.- Bagulo Gold P.
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Benguet Consul., P: 0.80 n. Benguet Explor., P Big Wedge, P.- Coco Grove, P. 40 n. Consolidated Mines, P. .010 Demonstrations, P. 38. n. E. Mindanao, P. — Gurnaus G'fields P. - Ipo Gold, P. I.X.L.., P. 54 Itogons, P.- Masbate Console, P. Min. Resources, P. Northern Min. P. Paraculo Cumaus, P. — Salacot Mining, P. --- San Mauricio, P. 52 n.. 'Suyoc Consol, P. .18
United Paracale, P. 51 n. Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $5.35 n. H.K. Lands, $31.10 b. HK. Lands, 4% Deben, $100 n. S'hai Lands, Sh.
Metropolitan Lands, Sh.- Humphries, $1⁄2 n. H.K. Rebs, $.4.70 n. Chinese Bates $80 n. China Realtor, Sh. -- China Debent,-
Public U10iles.
H.K. Tramways, $13.60/.75 an. Peak Trams (old), $731⁄2 n. Peak Trams (new), $3/11. Star Ferries, $01 b.
n.
Yaumali Fertles (old), $244 b. China Light, $11.70 b. China Light (new), $11.50 II.K, Electrict, $54 b. Macro Electric, 31034 n. Sandakan Lights, $13 n. Telephone (old), $2511⁄2 n. Telephone (new), $0.10 sa. China Buses. Sh
Singapore Tractions, 23/0 n. Singapore Pref., 23/- 1.
Industrials.
Cald: Macg. (old), Sh. → Cald Macg. (Pref.), Sh. Canton Ices, $1.00 n. Cenment, $12.40' b.
II. K. Ropes, $3.30 n.
Flores, &c. Dairy Form $24.00 s. Watson, $4% n. Lane Crawfords, $8.00 n. Sinceres, $1,55 m. Wing On (ILK.), $40 n. Wm. Powells, 40 cta. b.
Collon Mil.
Ewo Coltons, Sk. — S'hal Cotions, (old), Sh. Zoong Sings,* *-*-*-*-* Wing On Textiles, Sh.
Miscellaneous. H.K. Entertainments, $5.00 n. Constructions (old), $1.00 n. Constructions (new), $1.00 n. Vibro Plink, $53⁄41⁄4_n.
Ch. Govt. 4% 1015 GSBda. 03 n. H.K. Govt. 4% Loan % prm. n. H.K. Govt. 3% Loan, 14% prm.
11.
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Morsmans Inv.," (Lon), s/m 21/9 n. Marsmans, Ins., (HK.); 8/- 4/9. n.
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