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No. 18432
五拜禮 號四月二英港香
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938.
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the SECURITY and
DURABILITY
of
DUNLOP
FORT '90'
CANTON
RIVER
CLOSED TO
WARSHIPS AND Declaration of War On
MERCHANTMEN
ABOVE BARRIER
Japanese Aircraft Most Active Over City
MARTIAL LAW CONTINUES; TROOPS PATROL STREETS
From the Royal Navy it is learned that shipping which left Canton this morning was too late to get out of the port.
The Bebingfield Barrier was already up and it was im- possible to get through. The ships accordingly had to re- turn to Canton. The West River gunboat flotilla also bottled up there comprises H.M.S. Tarantula, Seamew, Moth and Robin.
Although the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamship Company had earlier announced that all was well on the Canton River, as far as could be ascertained, and thot trame was trying to come through, later wire- less reports from the steamer Taishan said the river had been closed.
The Talshan reached the barrier at 0.36 am. and was ordered back to Canton..
BAYONETS IN STREETS
Canton, Feb. 4.
Canton awakened to-day to an
CANTON RUMOURS
OF PLOTS
Tension Caused By Rumours
atmosphere of uncertainty but Heavy
no informa-
tion to explain-the-tension.
Soldiers with fixed bayonets are at present patrolling the streets throughout the city.
Telephone communication is disrupted.-Router.
900 PASSENGERS
Bombing Along River
(Special to "Telegraph")
Canton, Feb. 4. Canton is alive with rumours, and on these the present ten-
The last passenger train from Can-sion is blamed.
tou yesterday got into Kowloon at
BOMBS BLAST HOMES
One section of Takong village in Punya district, Kwang- tang Province, showing the houses wrecked by Japanese bombs on January 26. Scores of civilians were killed and wounded.
500 Planes SHANGHAI
Obtained By China
BOMBING OUTRAGE
Newspaper Offices Involved
Shanghai, Feb. 3.
Shanghai, Feb. 3. Chinese reports state that China recently obtained '500
A grenade of the "potato- planes from Europe and the masher" type was thrown out- United States, and 180 from side the door of the United Preas Soviet Russia, in addition to office here this morning, blast- spare parts and motors.-ing a hole a foot square in the
United Pres88.
SINGAPORE BATTLE
The most tangible of these BEGINS
12.40 am, and brought 900 passengers. | rumours is one of a plot to
MARTIAL LAW IN FORCE
assassinate Mayor Tsang Yeng-
Canton, Feb. 4. fu. But officials are persistent-
After a night of tension due to ly silent.
military activities and the halting!
of river shipping, the populace of Canton this morning witnessed the steel shutters on the window of a
all sides.
activity
of
and
(Continued on Page 4.)
Business-Men Hurl Abuse
At Roosevelt
seems, some quarters state, there is'
masonite wall, splattering the ceiling with shrapnel and filling the office with dense smoke.-
Furniture in the office was wrecked, and wall pictures on the other side of the hall were knocked down from the walls of Mr. Gould's office in the Shanghai Evening Post. The main door to Oriental Affairs office was also braken in.
French Police are investigating the outrage.
OUTRAGE IN SOFIA
more
SHIPPING
China Still Possible
JAPAN'S JAPANESE POLICY IN
PRESS SUSPECTS BRITAIN
Believe Pressure Being Brought To End War
Tokyo, Feb. 4, Under streamer headlines the influential Yomiuri Shimbun features a
the report that British Government is Informal- ly trying to ascertain, through the Japanese Embassy in Lon- don, Japan's intentions in China.
This report comes from reliable quarters, the paper states.
Britain is also stated to have ex- pressed the hope of a speedy settle-
ment and has offered "unstinted co- operation" to that end.
The
expresses the newspaper
opinion that Britain, in conjunction
with the United States, is applying pressure to enforce a speely settle ment of the Sino-Japonese conflet, and declares:
"Japan is keeping a wary eye on the attitude of Britain and America"
-Reuter.
STOP PRESS
Warships
Believed Attacking Bocca Tigris
CANTON QUIET RESTORED
CHINA OUTLINED IN FULL BY MINISTERS
Tokyo Insists upon Indemnity And Simultaneously Plans To Improve Relations
Tokyo, Feb. 4.
A declaration of war against China is possible in the future, Prince Konoye, the Prime Minister, informed the House of Representatives last night in reply to inter- pellations. All negotiations following the termination of the present incident would be conducted with the new regime expected to be in power in China by that time, he said.
The Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, asserted the four points of Japan's peace terms presented to and rejected by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek were "essential for improving Sino-Japanese relations and preventing the recurrence of an unfortunate incident like the present." Details of these terms might be changed, according to the regime in China with which Japan had to deal.
AMERICA SAFE FROM |INVASION
WHILE NAVAL PARITY EXISTS
Imatter
Д
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to
Replying to question whether the Importation of important goods would not possibly be upset if an incident bigger than the present one occurred, the Minister of Com- merce and Industry replied that a co-ordinatet progromme for the development of important natural resources in Japan and Manchukuo and China was being formulated;
MOBILISATION BILL
of
The statement urged the Govern ment to present the Bill for National Mobilisation to the present sessiori of the Diet, "paying no heed to the objections raised in party circles."
Full support of National Mobili- sation Bill, now being discussed for presentation to the Diet, was an- Washington, Feb. 3. nounced at a meeting of Parliamen- the reactionary Five Japanese warships were Mr. Ralph Brewster, Republican tary members A United Press coolle who was sighted under way at the mouth Member of the House of Representa Tohokal Party, last night. Anticl- the pating the present emergency, a resumption of Naval Affairs Com-party statement said, members had asleep three feet from where the of the Canton River early this tives for Maine, inquired t Blueland Forces
exploded miraculously
towards
оп Naval mittee
Appropriations advocated "bulwarking the state by morning, proceeding grenade
economy under means of planned escaped injury.
to-day, whether any Pacific Power Approach Baso
The motive for the outrage is un-Bocca Tigris forts.
Definite information to this could reduce Hawail's coast defences. which all national resources would Admiral William Leahy, Operations be lined up to effectively meet con- Shots were heard in Tungshan last
known. The only clue is the initials!
Hong- the one bullet pierced night, and
Singapore, Feb. 3.
Chier "U.P." pencilled on the door of the effect was brought to
said in reply: "That is a tingencies.“
for the Army, which has The battle for Singapore be- United Press office. It is known that kong this afternoon. spirited acrini most
German resident's sitting room. The
Subsequently, it is learned, charge of the Hawalian coast de- several weeks.
meaning of the firing could not be gan to-day when the Blueland these initials were not there before
the outrage-United Press. The
roof-tops
heavy gunfire was heard from fences. Shameen
forces attacked the eastern sec- ascertained.
long as the fleet is intact in Bocca Tigris. Indicating the tension in the city! windows were crowded with foreign-
the Pacific there is no danger of Sofia, Feb. 3. ers who watched groups of Japanese last night, a foreign diplomat was tor of the island, where the main
an enemy capturing the Hawallan
NOT FOR PRESENT CRISIS Ivan Mihailoff, Secretary of the planes repeatedly crossing the sky stopped, with a bayonet presented at artillery defences are situated.
Islands. Without a fleet, or with of miles Russian with anti-aircraft shells bursting on his chest, ten times in five blocks. Il
emigre newspaper Golos After flying hundreds
The controversial bill is expected insufflelent naval power, it is quite possible that they would be taken to be presented to Parliamentarians boats of the opened a parcel containing a bomb On one occasion a biplane daringly some fear of a rising engineered by in search of the approaching enemy Rossi, was blown to places when he
for approval some time next week. by an enemy power." force to-day. swooped to within a few hundred pro-Japanese agents. Every precau- fleet, the big flying
Redland (Singapore) defence
Canton, Feb. 4.
Admiral
Leahy added that the But even If approved it is not ex- Eagle, tion is being taken.
The editor of the newspaper, Boris There has been an endless series sighted the aircraft carrier
the spear Solovitch, was slightly Injured. Mme.
After the most exciting morning in capture of Hawali would constitute pected the Bill will be invoked dur whose warplanes from of air raid alarms since I am. Mrs.head of the Blueland attack.
Solovitch sustained rather
months quiet has been restored in a serious menace to the Pacific consting the current China Incident.
of the United States proper.
Government leaders point out that A. R. Oliveira, wife of the Fortu-
serious injuries.-United Press.
Canton for the past few hours.
He said that would be an ex- they are following strictly constitu guese Consul-General, with her small The Third Anti-Aircraft Brigade,
Detulls of Japanese activities in
for any tional path" in seeking the passage daughter, was a passenger on the which is manning the new aircraft NEWSPAPER OFFICE BOMBED
Shanghal, Feb. 4. other parts of Kwangtung are stil!tremely hazardous step river steamer Shing Cheong this batteries at the Naval Base, are ready
A hand grenade was thrown into scanty but the general belief is that Asintic power to attempt an invasien of the measure by the Diet Instead morning, when it was turned back to repel the Invaders.
the premises of the American-owned South China must expect similar of the United States, even with an of imposing it by means of an emer-
equal naval force.
gency ordinance. It is made plain to Canton from the barrier down-
determined to While troops have tuken of having seen
up key Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury visitations frequently, river. She tells
"But naval parity would not pro- the Government is anyut 3.30 am, to-day by a man wearing Several bombs were dropped on
secure e passage of the bill what- Japanese planes intensively bomb-positions, ready to cope with ing both banks of the river. The Blueland attempt land, a swarm of a long gown, apparently a Chinese either side of the river to-day be-vide as much safely from attack as
bombers and torpedo-bombers wThe missile exploded in the hallway tween here and the second bar, ac would a stronger navy," he added. ever the opposition--Reuter.
REPARATIONS SCHEME passengers were terrified. Washington, Feb. 3.
Groups of planes flew west and engage the attacking fleet and attempt autside the offices of Mr. H. G. cording to a lady passenger aboard United Press,
Tokyo, Feb. 4. Charges of window dressing south over Canton
to cripple the invadern by theoreti- Woodhead, the American editor, and the Macao steamer which was com- all morning,
Japan is determined to get war reparations from China "even if the and rigging the proceedings so bombing the outskirts. The concus cal "dive-bombing". They also must Mr. Randall Gould, of the United peiled to return from the barrier by gunboats off the cope with the Blueland air ralders, Press, smashing all the windows in the military launch on guard there: this morning. She saw the Japan-.
Chiang Kai-shek regime falls to pay as to endorac the Administra-lens rocked the
which are momentarily expected to the building and part of the wall.
them," decinted the Foreign Minister, Mr. Woodhead and Mr. Could were ese planes power-diving and bomb- tion's policy were hurled against The city is a bedian of gun-fire, uppear above Redland.
(Continued on Page 4.) absent at the time but the United ing the countryside in the vicinity of the Government by a minority for scores of anti-alecraft guns sre
AIRCRAFT DANGER enemy aircraft ns they
Press offices were occupied by the Whampoa and the detonations were of speakers at the Small Busi-engaging
Strategists believe that the chief night editor and two other men. The nudible for miles.
A large piece of shrapnel passed ness Men's Congress held here Pass overhead-United Press.
danger from the air to Singapore lies only other person, on the premises
a British re- RUMOURS OF COUP to-day.
in seaborne aircraft, since only the was a coolle. Tite chair on which he through the roof of Canton, Feb. 4. ridiculed the resolution
queer south of Canton, where lady mission- They
A foreign office representative not!-4ezure of one of the islands in the was sleeping in the hallway was aidence at Pakhoktung a few miles
aries reside. Dutch East Indies would provide shattered, but he, by condemning monopolies, which was
British adopted by Congress recently. fed Mr. A. C. Blunt, the
The assailant escaped.-Reuter. out
the Consul General, that all foreign com- sultabio landing base for an enemy. freak, was unscathed. that point
The air attack by planes from Observers
for word, mercial shipping would have to leave: resolution repeats, word some of the recent pronouncements Canton in order to pans Boeen Tigris HMS. Eagle-a phase in which the of the who forta by 2 n.m., "due to stress of cir-manoeuvres are now entering-is ex- of
to the anti-Trust cumstances." renewed advocated
The advice is believed to be due to damage that could be done
Naval
air- clly by drive.
Base and the Japanese The resolution calls on the Govern- rumourn that an intense
the bombing of Canton is planned for the ralders.
Civilian air raid precautions In- ment to appropriate funds for
the near future in order to aid prelude a big anti-gas organisation at Justice and Department of
are attempting a Federal Trade Commission, for the pagandista who purpose of promptly and vigorously coup d'etat with the object of over both the naval and air bases, Women enforcing anil-Trust lows, such laws throwing the Kwangtung Provincial and children-Indeed, whole civilian
familiea with their amahs and ser
London, Feb. 3. to be further revised so as to clarify Government.
It is also rumoured that a Japanese vants-and the coolles employed at
The Home Secretary hopes shortly to landing will be made at Kongmoon the Naval Base are being trained in ad. It also urges government
be to be in a position to confer with the greatly increase the penalules upon this afternoon, and that Japanese anti-gas work, and they may
ships will attempt to penetrate the called out for air-raid drill if the local authorities in London with a violators of the amended laws.
view to concerted arrangement bo- baso le ralded, After turbulent proceedings, which boom across the Pearl River.
arrangements ing made for air raid exercises in the In actual wartime, The city is reported to bo under were marked by repeated interrup
truckloads of would be made to evacuate the most Metropolitan area. He has TL yet
civilian tions, the Congress adjourned, a num-martial law, and
population. decided exactly what form the exer ber of delegates declaiming against soldiers patrolled the darkened streets; non-essential
last night.-United Preza.::
(Continwed oK" PAD#^6.)
aisos should face kiritish. Wireless......... the whole enterprise-Reuter.
Administration
officials
the practices which must be eliminat-
Shameen.
pected to movide an iden Air Raids
some
Precautions In London
New Attempt On England- New Zealand Air Record
SPY SCARE IN CANTON There is a considerable spy scare In Carton. It is understood several persons have been shot during the
London, Feb. a. WAR past few dayɛ. One
suspect
Within a few days Flying-OMeer Victor Shameen arrested in front of the
A. E. Clomston and Mr. Bridge this morning.
Yesterday's anxiety that Internal Ricketts will take off from Croydon Aerodrome on a record attempt disturbances might result from the night to Australls and New Zealand declaration of martial law has been allayed-Renter.
(Further Stop Press News on Page 12.)
and back.
Constitution Of Ceylon Discussed
London, Feb. 3.
In a written answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day, the Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. Ormsby. Gore states that he had asked Sir- To-day their aeroplane-record Andrew Caldecott, the Governor of breaking De Havilland Comet-was Ceylon, to report fully on the work- named Australian Anniversary by ing of the Constitution.
of On receipt
Sir
Andrew Lady Wolgail, wife of Sir Archibald Welgall, late Governor of South Caldecolt's report he would consider Australia and President of the Royal whether the appointment of a Com- mission.of. Exquiry w61 the best Empire Society.
Mr. S. M. Bruco, the Australian procedure for considering the various High Commisaloner, attended the proposals for amendment that he
received from Ceylon- the simple ceremony at Croydon had Aerodrome.--British Wireless.
British Wireless,