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·三拜雞城九十月正英港香
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 19, 1938.日八十月二十
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CHINA MAKES CLEAR HER BASIS FOR PEACE
MAINTENANCE OF Chautemps Succeeds In Forming A Cabinet
INTEGRITY
INSISTED UPON
Violation Of Rights Renders Peace
Terms Unacceptable
Hankow, Jan. 19.
The object of China's armed resistance against Japan is to safeguard national existence and to maintain the sanctity of international treaties, declares a statement issued by the Central Government, reaffirming its determination to maintain China's sovereign rights and territorial and administrative integrity.
Although her desire for peace re- muins unchanged, China cunnot tolerate encroachment by a foreign country on her sovereign rights und territorial and administrative integrity, which are an essential of China's independent attribute stutus. and which all Interested Powers, by a solemn treaty, have pledged themselves to respect, adds the statement.
"Whatever the circumstances, the Chinese Government' is exerting the sovereign utmost to maintain the rights and territorial and edministra- tive integrity of China. Any terms for the restoration of peace, if they do not conform with this principle are necessarily unacceptable China'
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"In the meantime, all acts such as unlawful organisations which have been set up under Japanese milltary Occupation, ure considered null and void, both internally and externally, by the Chinese Government."
TOKYO TO
IGNORE NANKING
Readjustment Talks Only With Peiping Says Konoye
Tokyo. Jan. 19. Prince Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan, in an interview yesterday with, Japanese reporters said that Japan would deal with Nanking as a party- to projected talks for the readjustment of mutual relations between China and Japan. However Japan would
What Japan Really Means deal with Peiping.
He said that Peiping would possibly After reviewing the present hos-undergo processes similar to those of tilltles since the outbreak of the the Manchukuo organisation period,
will be
different when the Lukouchino incident, the statement but recalls the ruthless destruction by Government is firmly established. In the Japanese of property and life in this connection Japan would assist in China,
and that this action violates hastening its growth. International law and the Kellogg Prince Konoye said he had not Anti-War Fact and Nine-Power heard that it was Manchukuo's inten- Treaty has been unmistakably pro- tion to recognise the Felping regime. nounced by the nations of the world. However they expected the
The regime The responsibility for disturbing international peace, the statement de-o co-operate with Japan in the
and
promotion of peace and culture, and said he did not believe Pelping would become the Central Government of China without a change, but that it
clares, “clearly rests with Japan, and not China. Despite such well-known facts, Japan has now declared that the respects the territorial and will certainly become the mainstay zovereign rights of China, as well as of the various regimes which emerge the rights and interests of foreign in various parts of the country. Powers. It should be observed that
This is recent picture from Paiping, showing members of the newly-formed women's police force search- ing a couple in their rickcha at the Kuan Gate, whore Chinese and Japanais fought a sanguinary battle in
the early days of the hostilities,
Roumanian Crisis:
King Orders. New Elections
Bucharest, Jan. 19. King Carol has dissolved the Roumanian Parliament by Royul Decree.
Elections for the Chamber of Deputies will be held ou March 2 and for the Sennie on March 4, The new Parliament will be -convened-on-March-19,—Reuter-
JAPAN'S IMPOSING NAVY
is bigger than BRITAIN'S
Washington, Jan. 19. During the preliminary debate on the Naval Appropriations Bill yester- Prince Konore said the matter of day the House of Representatives by respect for China's territory and merging Peiping and Nanking was a studied naval tesilmony purporting sovereign rights, Japan means dismaller between those governments, to show that Japan has more fully- membering of China through the and Japan would not interfere with manned fighting ships in commission creation of various unlawful organl
than either the United States sations to usurp the sovereign rights of China. Likewise, by respect
The Premier declined to comment Great Britain. for
Data submitted the rights of foreign Powers, Japan on whether the new regime would be means the securing of monopolistic completely established in six months
Department rights through her predominant posi
tion in China."—Reuter,
STOP PRESS
LABOUR TO STUDY ANTI-JAPAN
BOYCOTT PROPOSALS
Washington, Jan. 18. Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labour, conferred by trans-Atlantie telephone
or
by the 'Naval disclosed that un
und 105 in Great Britain.
In
and said a further study was necesNovember 1. last year Japan has 213 sury before a decision regarding the "creation
cation of a Presidency in the New warships prepared for action, com- Government, and also the amalgama-pared with 109 in the United States, tion of the autonomous Mongolian
Japanese One hundred and fifty Government with the Peiping regime"
warships are under the nge ilmits could be monde.
imposed by the London Treaty, Prince Konoye remarked that a contrast 10 100 American and 102 degree of State control was inevitable British ships-Reuter. in connection with the projected economic development of North China. However, the guiding pripriple would be mutual Sino-Japanese existence of prosperity. Meanwhile third party investments of capital would be welcomed and all foreign rights | respected.—United Press.
Recognition Soon
Tokyo, Jan, 15, Mr. Yomiuri asserted yesterday with Sir Walter Citrine, Secretary that the Japanese Cabinet had agreed General of the British Trades Union
(Continued from Page 12.) Council with regard to international thensures against Japan, as proposed by Labour.
Sir Walter Citrine had suggested by cable that the French, Briüsh, Netherlands, Swiss, Swedish, Soviet and United States governments be encouraged to prohibit the granting of credits, all and all war materials to Japan, and to guarantee to each other aid in case Japan attacked
them.
Mr. Green declared that the MAFOL., would consider tho pro- posals on January 24. Meanwhile he would reserve judgment owing to the drastic nature of the proposals Router.
(Further Stop Press Newi, on d
NEW AMBASSADOR
will
Hongkong Mercantile Officers To Be
Taught
Sea Defence
Includes Action Against Submarines, Mines, Gas
Maritime officers of British nationality, employed on the China Coast have been invited by the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, to enrol for a course of training in Sea Defence.
If a sufficient number of officers enrol, a course of lectures dealing with the Defence of the British Merchant Navy will commence next month. Only officers of British nationality will be permitted to enrol.
Training will be divided into ten sections, as follows:
1-General principles of irade protection;
2.-Instractions on convoy work- ing in general and on handling shipa
convoy:
3-Vinul signalling for ships in convoy, and general wireless telo- graphy organisation and procedure: for merchant ships in War;
4 Defence against submarinės, including the use of smoke; --5---Low angle gun control;
G-Low angle gun drill and Ammunition;
7-Defence against aircraft, and| high angle gun control, ammunt- tion and drill;
B-Defence against mines;
D.- Defence against gas; •
· Masters (optional).
Japan Aims
To Enslave
North China
Communist Paper Says Chinese Must Continue War Operations
Shanghai, Jan. 19. The Chinese Communist Forty 10-Participation in gun delll by organ, the Heinhwajih Pao in an editorial states that the creation of a puppet Government in Peiping is It is intended that courses, cach the first step by Japan to digest Insting one week, will be held in
North China politically. The cron- February, October and December. tion of the so-called China Federal These months have been chosen as Reserve Bank of Peiping is the first the most convenient for Hongkong, step by Japan to digest North Chine because a large number of ships are economically.
M. MARCHANDEAU NEW FINANCE MINISTER
Portfolios Held By Radical-Socialists
Paris, Jan. 18.
M. Camille Chautemps, whose 1984 Cabinet fell as a result. of the Stavisky scandals, and who recently resigned because ho lucked the Communista support has succeeded in again forming a Government.
The new Cabinet is almost entirely Radiqal-Socialist, ‘and M. Chautemps expects to shortly present a full list of names to the President, M. Lebrun,. He will probably submit his Govern- ment to a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday.
The Communist Party has announ- ced that it will not support the new Government, however their 73 volen
to insuficient
divesi M. Chautemaps of his majority, since the Socialists have promised their sup- port.
Bre
...
M. Paul Marchandeau, the Radical- Sceiulist member of the Chamber of Deputies and former Minister in the 1934 Doumergue and Flandin Govern- ments has accepted the Finance Ministry.-United Press.
PROBABLE CABINET
The following
is
Paris. Jan. 18,
a semi-official forecast of the probable composition of the new Chautemps Cabinet:
Premier M. Camille Chautemps. War Minister-ME-Duiadler- Minister for the Interior M. A. Sarraud.
Minister for Campinchi.
Justice M. Cesare
Finance Minister M. Paul Mar- chandeau.
Finance Minister M. Paul Mar- Foreign Affair M. Y. Deibos. Minister for Commerce M. Paul Hymans.
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Minister for Labour. M. Paul Ramadier.
Colonial Minister M. Pierre Cot. the -Reuter,
OPPOSITION ALREADY
Paris, Jan. 18. The militant extremists have de- Communists and manded that the Socialists refuse to participate in a general coalition, and have demanded that, Instead, they selze power through direct action.
The self-styled Socialist "Bottle" group has demanded a Popular Front coalition which should include the General Confederation of Labour and the Communists.
A third group led by the former
Popular Front premier, M. Leon Blum, has asked for authority for the socialists to participate in a coall- tion majority whose members would be attached to the Popular Front and who would follow a Popular Front. programme-United Press.
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YOUNG GIRL DIES FROM POISONING
M. Camilla Chautemps who has announced the successful formation of a new French Cabinot thus ending Immediate political crisis in France. This is the third time in his career that M. Chautamps has beon Premier of France.
"ASIA FOR THE ASIATICS"
Sir Cecil Clementi Sees Sino-Japanese Rapprochement
London, Jan. 10. A former Governor of Hongkong, speaking at a Royal Empire' Society dinner to-night, predicted a rappro- chement between China and Japan after the present war.
Urging the necessity of Great London, Jan. 10.
Britain and America standing closer then laid up for docking and repairs. The common aim of these actions Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, the new
During the period April to Septem- is to stabilise and enslave North
together, Sir Cecil Clementi, who Brush Ambassador to China, w embark aboard, the P. & O. Iiner ber, however, the Naval authorities China, Japanese imperialists have
joined the Colonial Service as a Cadet Kalsar-1-Hind д Marsellies on propose to hold courses whenever not been shouting for many years of their Early Morning Tragedy
In Hongkong in 1890 and rose to be-- January 1. Accompanied by lady less than six Merchant Navy officers exploits in North China, now they are
In Hongkong naturally able to loot everything
come Governor of the Colony from Clark-Kerr, the new Ambassador are available.
freely. Their instrument for looting pass-through Hongkong to Importance is attached to Officers and
1st the
Rushed to the Queen Mary Hospital 1925 to 1930, said that the situation exptoliation
$25,000,000 Shanghal-Reuter,
taking the first course (General Prin capital of the
at 2 o'clock this in the Far East was never more China Federation in an ambulance ciples of Trade Protection), and of Reserve Bank.
morning to-day, a young Chinese cers shall not attend the second, third
Judging by the superficit facts woman of Gloucester Road, Wanchal hazardous.
survive the and fourth courses until they have the Japanese stemned to be smoothly waterfront falled, to completed General Principles.
pushing on their programmes. How-polson which she was believed to have Similar Instruction In Defence of ever, the real picture shows that it taken in an alteript to end her life. by Sir Francie Lindley that when the the British Merchant Navy is already is still the Japanese Imperialista' Although all was done at the present warfare between Chiqa and in vogue in England.
Imagination to enslave North China, hospital to combat the effects of the Japan is over, it is most likely that,
The guerilla troops of the Eighth yeol poisoning the Route Army have penetrated central name was Tsum Yat-ylu, 18 years of there will be a rapprochement and Hopel and reached the Chingal and go, died before daybreak.
Italian School-Children Have New Prayer With Their Midday Meal
· Rome, Jan. 18. "Il Duce, I thank you for what you are giving me, which makes mo healthy and strong, Preserve Il Duco, so that he may be long preserved for Fascist Italy."
This is the prayer Italian school-children will have to say In future when they are provided with lunch at school All but the poorest will liave to pay for their midal
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DE VALERA TALKS WITH DOMINIONS SECRETARY
all disiricts in the immediate
vicinity of Tientsin. The People's Volunteers, have spread into every
corner of the Hopei province and
-
woman whose
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"I agree with the recent statement
Be cry-of "Ania for the Asiatics,
moro This cry will become vehement with the passage of years. It therefore behoves Europo and Americh to co-operate to see that no pan-Asiallo fanatic will run the risk of attacking thema NJ By D M "The two great western continente.
this is annoying, the enemy very FORMER MAYOR OF CALOUTTA London, Jan. 18, ⠀ much. We should try to maintain a · BECOMES PRESIDENT Before the Anglo-Irish; conversa, state of war, ay, long as the enemy
Alaliabad, Jan. 19, tions were resumed at a p.m. to-day," is not yet driven out, so that the
Subbas Boon, the well-Khown. Mn E. de Valera, had separate enemy Anday that what she has consultation with Bir Malcolm Mac swallowed is not a fat sheep but Indian leader and former Mirror of must-
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