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一拜禮 號七廿月二十英港香
MONDAY,
No, 15400
JAPANESE WAR FLEET SIGHTED
NEAR HONGKONG
MACAO STEAMER THRILLED AS
PASSENGERS ON
PLANES FLY
OVER SHIP
Definite evidence of a concentration near Macao of Japanese warships and other vessels, apparently transports, was brought to Hongkong last night by passengers aboard the British steamer Kin Shan,
The Japanese fleet, which appeared to include a large aircraft carrier and at least one modern cruiser, lay at anchor about ten miles from Macao.
Three vessels were alongside the aircraft carrier. While the Kin Shan was steaming past the Japanese' ships, about ten miles distant, two flights of Japanese seaplanes flew over the British vessel from the direction of the mainland.
Further bombings were male on the. Kowloon-Canton Railway yester- day, without appreciable damage being caused. Four machines dropped eight bombs in the vidm of Sheung Ping Railway Station, the principal damage boing to the goods shed. Train service was delayed for ap- proximately two hours while 15 yurds of damaged line was replaced.
Shortly before noon two planes flew over Cheung Muk Tau, dropping two bombs, while a further raid was made over the same spot at 1 p.m.) the railway bridge across the Pearl River being the objective. Anti-air- cruft guns kept the calders at a safe height and the objective was com- pletely missed,
Child Born On British Man-Of-War
Capetown Carrying Hankow Refugees; Heading For H.K.
26.
JAPANESE
CREATING
NEW BANK
Money For North
China Areas
Tokyo, Dec, 27.
A Japanese report from Pelping says that, moving to ensure financial stability in the ares under its control, the Provisional Government" has decided to create in Assoented Re- serve Bank of China, capitalised af $50,000,000. The new organ will issue inconvertible currency on a par with the yen
and the Manchukuo yuan.
The capital of the bank will bo subscribed in equal parts by leading Sino-Japanese banking organisations. The Japanese institutions participat- Ing in the project are the Yokohama Speele Bank and the Taiwan Dank. The Chinese banks subscribing: in- clude the Provincial Bank of Hopel.
All these banks will be required to surrender silver bullion and certain securities to the reserve organ.
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The new Institution will apply to Japanese banking syndicate for opening credits for Y100,000,000 to be used to maintain the stability of the currency and for Industrial develop- ment.
Gold and silver will also be purchased by the new organ to re- plenish its reserve.-Reuter.
World-wide Search Ends
But He Won't Register Interest
By A Correspondent
Sydney, Dec. 4.
Here in Sydney there has been found, after a world-wide search lasting nine months, the heir to one of England's oldest
lils
DECEMBER
27, 1937. ̇日五廿月一十
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
$30.00 TEN ANNUM
JAPANESE PIERCE nanking wall
On Monday, four months to a day since the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai, Japanese forces captured Nan- king. The above photo, showing Japanese troops belonging to the Ohno Detachment on the ruins of the Chungshan, or eastern gate, was rushed to Shanghai after the final assault,
and thence to Hongkong-Photo by Domci,
WAR PILOT, FILM STAR,
MURAT TROTTING GLOBE
It is belatedly learned that a son name is Frederics Ferrand Flip TO MEET WIFE ANNABELLE
was born to the wife of Mr. Y. He is a bank clerk-cares little for Lok aboard H.M.S. Capetown in
baronetcles. Shanghai on Christmas morning.
The tall, French ex-war pilot husband of Amabelle, beautiful wick, Lincolnshire, created in 1642, young French film actress who was introduced to English-speak- estates of Braceborough and Great-ing audiences in the colour film "Wings of the Morning," has
arrived in Hongkong.
ford.
A signal received by the naval
He becomes the fourteenth holder authorities at Hankow stales that of the baronetey of Trollope of Case- Ships Near Tsingtao
both the mother and child are doing well. Tsingtao, Dec. 27.
and owner of the South Lincolnshire Seven Japanese warships have been
Mr. Lok, whose wife was one of sighted off Lenshanwel, about an hour the two -expectant mothers who and half's journey by launch across travelled to Shanghai from Hankow
I saw the new baronet to-day, saya the bay from Tsingtao, according 19 aboard the British cruiser, is a
the correspondent of London Daily Chinese reports,~~Reuter.
Singapore-born Chinese connected at
Express. He is 02 years old, single. now on a world cruise, and will rejoin Hankow with Imperiul Chemical He lives Industries.
in Shirley-road, North Annabella in Hollywood, where she Sydney, and is employed by a Sydney is working in a film with William The acting Commander-in-Chief | bank. He was most retleent about
Powell. of the China Station, Vice-Admiral his plans, said to me: Crabbe is delighted to hear of the
Kwangtung Coast Raid
Swatow, Dec. 27.
Three Japanese warplanes, coming from the direction of Chlumen Island
sent a signal from
"I expect to visit England next
He is French film actor Jean Murat, |2
"I received a cable from my wife
autside Amoy Harbour, raided Na- happy event, and Canetown saying: year, but I don't belleve there are telling me she is very pleased with!
mao Island off the Kwangtung coast yesterday afternoon, according to a report received here.
The raiders released two bombs at Lungao, the principal town on the island, wounding several civilians They were later driven off by Chinese fighting planes,-Central News.
Japanese Pushing On To Tsingtao
Hsuchow, Dec. 27. Intercepted by heavy Chinese forces, the Japanese column which crossed the Yellow River and moved westward from Tsingcheng has
Hongkong to
to hear
estates in South Lincolnshire. her new film," said M. Murat. of your any success, and I request you to present The title won't make any difference my congratulations and those of the to my way of living." whole China fleet to Mrs.
Lok, I would very much like to be god- father, even only by proxy, as this child was born under such unusual circumstances."
Search for the fourteenth baronet began when the thirteenth baronet. Sir Arthur Grant Trollope, died last February.
The fact that ship's orders state His heir was that both births and deaths must be Trollope, distant
ጉ
Frank Anthony cousin, and
written in the ship's log has always grandson of Anthony Trollope, the brought a smile to enlisting men,
DOCTOR ON BOARD
novelist.
DID NOT MARRY Hankow is delighted that the baby Frank Anthony Trollope lived in was born on the Capetown which Australia, but he died. It was the abandoned its plan of attacking Tsi- became very popular during the need for definitely establishing whe- ship's stay there. Dr. C. L. Elian, ather he had married and left a son nun, capital of Shantung, and now missionary, it is stated, offelated at which began the nine-months' pushing from Changilen and Foshan the birth. He was the only man search. joward Tsingtan by the Kinotsi roll- civilian aboard the Capetown when way, military advlees received here she tell for Shanghal. reveal.
of
In the same dying squadron' as Georges Carpentier during the Great Wer, Jean Murnt has been married to Annabella for five years. They met when they were malding a French flim together. "Wings of the Morning," described as the greatest colour film achievement of British Studios, was shown in Hongkong some weeks ago
Officer Dies Of Wounds
Hit In Battle With Arab Guerillas
Now the search has ended. Frank Anthony Trollope did not marry- Apparently the birth a child
and Frederic Forrand Trollope suc- In a telegram to a high Chinese aboard a British warship, though a military commander at Hsuchow yesterday, Admiral Shen Hung-leh, before, because rumour has it that a
very singular event, has accurred ceeds to the title. Mayor of Tsingtao, declared his de- child so bom automatically becomes Lord Kesteven, on whose death, in The title was held by the second termination to defend Tsingtao at all a member of the parish of Stepney. 1915, it passed to his bachelor nep
Hallo, Dec, 26. cost. His mid that he had organised This, however, is doubled in some hew, Capiala Thomas
Licut. M. W. Mountain of the lat: Trollope. many mobile units to harnes the quarters, Japanese-Central News.
Within a few months, however, he Battalion The Border Regiment, who H.M.S. Capetown is nt present lost his life when the troopship Mre- was wounded while fighting Arab heading for Hongkong-Reuter. cian was torpedoed off the Egyptian rebels in the hills of Gallice yester
day, has died from Reuter.
New Russian
Ambassador
At Hankow
Hankow, Dec. 27. M. Luganer Orelsky, the now Soviet Ambassador to China, arrived here by air yesterday afternoon from Lanchow, tired after the long journey. M. Oreisky will rest in the office Mof the Soviet Embassy here, ofter which it is expected he will proceed to Chungking to present his creden- tials to Mr. Lin Ben, President of
the China Republic-Reuter.
At the meeting of the Rotary Club
rori Tuceday, December 28, Mr. E. J.
#K. Milchell will speak on "Reminis #Mentescom of the Coronation.
Clipper At Auckland
Auckland, Dec. 26. The "Samoan Clipper", which left Pagopago In Samon yesterday on a trial flight from America Zealand, has arrived here~~~Reuter.
to New
coast.
MOST MODERN AIR TERMINUS
his wounds.--
ARCHBISHOP'S APPEAL
LUNATICS PERISH IN BLAZE
Others Escape From Asylum
Paris, Dec. 20.
A fire last night destroyed the lunatle asylum at Montreden, near Lepuy, which housed 135 inmates.
The bodles of seven people were recovered, but it is feared that another is still under the debris.
Twelve dangerous hinalles 'escaped during the blaze.-+-Reuter.
King Assents To Marriage Of Princess
London, Dec. 26. A Court Circular from Sandring hom announces that the. King held In Privy Council at 8 pm, to-day at which were present the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and the Earl of Athlone, the last named act- ing for the Lord President of the Council,
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COMMUNIST AIM IS SALVATION OF CHINESE NATION
Invader Must Be Checked, Says Chiang's New Ally
(Special to "Telegraph")
Hankow, Dec. 27. Talking with Mr. T. Wang Min, member of the Political Bureau and one of the secretaries of the Communist Party, told this correspondent that the Communists were at present aiming only at the national salvation of China, and not its conversion to socialism. They had not abandoned their ideals, however, and were still following the Marxist strategy to gain their goal.
After an absence of five years in Moscow as a delegate to the Comintern, Wang Min only recently returned to China to assist her in resistance and to bring about closer co-operation between the Communists and the Kuomintang. For this purpose he has already conferred with other leaders, including Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.
English Mail Plane ernment was following. However,
Forced Down In Fog
Le Havre, Dec. 26. The Imperial Airways flying boat. Cordella, bound for England from Alexandria, carrying one passenger and mails, came down at Le Havre this morning owing to for in the channel.
The machine will continue ita Bight at $ a.m. to-mOFTOW.---- Router.
STOP PRESS
RESCUE SHIPS STANDING BY
45-mile-an-
He admitted they were fully satis- Bied with the present policles of stubborn resistance which the Gov-
for in- they and the people wish provements in the composition and policy of the Government, but the Communists have still not been invited to take executive posts.
There had been some friction, sald Wang Min, and misunderstanding. Some people think that if China is victorious against Japan it will mean she will become Sovietised and that a defeated Chin
ecase would simply to exist. "But our purpose at pre- We sent is in an historical stage,
a united front and wish to build up a work for national salvation, for a democratic republic, and not for the Soviets," he said.
"Is this policy the Maxlat answer?" he was asked. "Our policy is based on Marxist strategy," Wang Min continued, "We and the common soldiers follow, Lenin and Stalin have pointed out that in colonial and semi-colonial nations at certain stages the proletariat must join hands with the bourgeois and fight for nationa independence. Thus in China, where Japanese Imperialism is about lo conquer, all parties must join hands, Including the proletariat. This, I conclude, is the Communist strategy."
OTHER THEORIES
"Is any other strategy, not Marxist,
Min correct?" Wong
was nsked. "Marxism is the most correct theory. But other theories at certain historical stages and in different circumstances are playing progressive roles, such as Sun Yat-sen-fam in the past and present," he replied.
Port Angeles, Wash., Dec. 20. Two American coast guard vessels und the Canadian Fisheries patrol ship Armentieres are standing by the freighter Beulah while a
"Some foreigners and Chinese hour wind punishes the ship wrecked have a wrang, conception of Com- on the rocks of southern Vancouver munism," he went on.
We always in that arca known
end is to make clear that the anal mariners as "the graveyard of the Communism. But this cannot be Pacific.
achieved over-night. Only through The Beulah broke her rudder and transitional singes can we success- ran as ran ashore last night in a gale. The fully bulld. The present aim is
one of report
we shall thenational salvation. There wrecked ship's crew is missing. only attempt to bulld for socialism The coast guard plane which few when the people understand and fight over the wreck reported that the fur It." ship had a 40 degree list and that she had lost all but one Hebont. Sho | carries a crew of between 15, und 20.
-United Press.
Later.
It is now learned that the Beulah bins freed herself from the rocks and is proceeding castward under her own steam--Unlied Press.
five.
SEEK TO CHECK TERUEL DRIVE
Madrid, Dec. 27.
WHY IS HELP INVITED?
"The Communist party in China is small. Why should the -Kuomin tang invite help? If you really desire why not dissolve the Com- munists and join the Kuomintang?" Wang Min was asked.
But
"I cannot say we are strong. we are second to the Kuomintang. If the Kuomintang desires help it musi invite us," Wang Min repiled.
He said that he and Chou En-lal, conferring with Marshal Chiang, had talked about resistance to the end
Was
nearer
10
Apparently in an effort to divert and
and the fight for final victory, "" the Loyalist offensive on Teruel, the expressed in Chiang's December 10 Insurgents for two and a half hours statement. They had explained bombarded Madrid to-day at the rate Marshal Chlong that some progress of ton 76 mm, shells per minute. had been made in the political field, Thousands sought shelter in dug-outs that the Government was beginning and one sitell hit a subway entrance to be unified and play its role in bo- and killed two soldiers and wounded national defence, that it
ginning to take democratic measures At present the death list cannot be and the army was
tanily However, If the Government would enumated.
The Loyalists report they are take more improved measures then be victorious, rapidly mepping up Teruel and have its resistance would It is understood the King gave captured the insurgent infantry bar Wang Min asserted. The Com- the formal assent to the marriage of racks after a bloody battle. They muniata were willing to share
surrounded San Juan burden and take Government posts, Princess Frederika of Brunswick to avo Prince Paul of Greece.
Save now Plaza, where in the largest of the In- but this depended upon whether the Kuomintang wanted help and invited As the Princess is a great grand-surgent strongholds
The Insurgent efforts to relieve the co-operation. daughter of Queen Victoria, the
dego are said to have been very King's assent was necessary before weak. They have dropped a num of Imperial Airways' executive and
the marriage could take place.
ber of bombs, but mostly behind the administrative staff and a complete Ita asked who could think, with-
It in many years since a Privy Loyalist lines-United Press. air-railway station-the first of its out a sickening of heart, of the Council was hold during the Christ-
(Further Stop Prem, News on appalling slaughter, suffering and mas holiday. Reuter,
Page 12.) The Imperial Airways mall plane Air passengers from Hongkong, manifold misery brought about by from Bangkok to Hongkong has instead of having to make their own war to Spain and Chat He urged been delayed 24 hours. She only arrangementa after disembarking that the individual should be willing public opinion, which ultimately left the Siamese capital this morning, from a Bring-boot at Southampton, that the underlying causes of discon- swarod polley, was created only by She is the Daedalus, a new machine will travel by high-speed express tent should be examined impartially, the feelings and judgments of In
so that Justice night be done; for dividual men and women Reuter,
MAIL PLANE DELAYED
on this run,"
What is claimed to be the world's! most modern air terminus is already
London, Dec. 26. taking shape alongside the Southern Rallway's
An appeal to the individual in his platforms at Victoria Station in London,
home to hear witness for Christianity Planned during the last two years
"openly and courageously" among his to provide every facility for air fellows was made by the Archbishop travellers nny point of the globe, of Canterbury in a broadcast to the the new building will house the whole nation' to-day.
kind.
Diesel-electric trains to London.
NOT HELPING MUCH - WADE
Min admitted that Con- munists and other social democrats, labour and peace bodies in other countries were not helping China. much. The Russian people, however, were helping with kympathy and the Sino-Soviet.non-agression: past had beers atgned. What Ching pEGGELOSSO from foreign countridela siebie (Continued on Page 11