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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1988.
Japan Tries
To Prove Her Goodwill
Tokyo, Feb 17.
With the aim of giving the Chinese people "an object lesson of Japancae goodwill towards the civilian popu
All verseis may call at any ports on or off the route, wand the route and all walling" | lation," the Government intends to are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
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appropriate funds for the relief of Chinese non-combatants, Mr. Kok! Hirola revealed in the Upper House of the Diet last night.
In making the announcement. the Foreign Minister said he concurred with Baron Ohkura that by relief Hull, work in China the Chinese could best be taught to realise the Japanese stand in the current incident.
Replying to Baron Ohkura's inter- Hull, pellation, Mr. Hirota said the Foreign Office intended to supplement the cultural and other activities already carried an in China. The troops were already doing useful work, mainly The In restoring peace and order. Foreign Dice was now seeking the co-operation of private organisations for assisting in the rehabilitation of areas devastated by the conflet, be said. Reuter,
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WEIHWEI FALLS TO JAPANESE ASSAULT
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unit has entered Tamingfu in routh Hopel-Central News,
Japanese Advance Slowed Down
Isuchow, Feb. 17. Japanese advance on both the southern and northern sectors of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway has been considerably slowed down by Chinese guerilla activities as well as the stub- born resistance put up by the re- gular troops, say military sources.
ern sector have crossed the Hwai Though the Japanese on the south- River, the Chinese recapture of Kao
and
their fleree cheng and Shangyao counter-offensive against Hwaiyuan und Tingyuan have created a great menace in the rear. As д result, the Agent Japanese have been compelled to
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north bank of the Hwal River to the mect the emergency on the south bank.
Military reports just received state that a Chinese guerilla unit entered Mingkwang, 105 kilometres north of As n Fukow, yesterday afternoon. result, Japanese communications be- tween Pukow and Linhwalkwan on the rallway have been disrupted.
On the northern sector of the rail- way
the Chinese troops are vigorously closing in on Lianghsialien and Tsowhsten. The recapture of Tel- ning on the left flanic has dealt a
blow heavy
to the Japanese, Central News,
Additional Gains Claimed
Shanghal, Feb. 17.
A Japanese Army spokesman to- day declared that besides Weinwel, occupied on February 15, attacking troops hud also taken Fengkiu, close to the north bank of the Yellow River, and near the Pelping-Hankow rail- way line.
ported Japanese were yesterday re- to be mopping up in Wanchth south-east from Wuliu, and bombing Fanchang, 28 miles south of Wuhu, us well as Nanling, indicating that an effort is being made to relieve the Chinese pressure designed to divert Japanese attention from the Lunghal railway.—United Press,
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BRITISH ANTI- JAPANESE BOYCOTT MOVEMENT NOT LIKELY TO BE OFFICAL, SAYS NEW AMBASSADOR
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House where the Ambassador will stay while he is in Hongkong.
The new Ambassador succeed- Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Igessen, who was wounded in an air attack last August On the Nanking-Shanghal road.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr has been Ambassador to Baghdad since 1933. In 1920, while Minister to Chill, he married Senorita Marlo Dias Salas, described as "the most beautiful giri in Santiago."
Prior to shiling for Chino, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr devoted several weeks to an intensive study of the Far Eastern situation.
is
The new Ambassador to China man with an attractive personality and a Elmple direct active and manner. Physically vigorous, he impresses as a man of keen insight and resolute character. His personal tastes are stated to be most catholic.
Sir Archibald is a keen sports and shooting enthusiast and also a devotee of Herature and a particu- lor admirer of the modern school of poetry. He is keenly looking for- ward to his anxious but stimulating duties in China,
NO WIDER
REPRESENTATION
WANTED YET
London, Feb. 10.
Asked in the House of Commons if the Government were prepared to revise the Constitution of the Legis lative Council of the Straits Settle- ments to make it more representative of the inhabitants the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mc. W. Ormsby Gore, said he was not aware of the need or desire for any wider representation In the Legislative
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Resulting, from a fall from a motor tral Maglairacy this morning, Leung lerry at the entrance to the Vehicular Tin, 22, unemployed, was charged ferry wharf yesterday, Yeung Chi, with larceny of alx pieces of clothing 40, suffered an injury to his head from the servants quarters of No. 10 and was removed to the Queen Mary May Road, on February 15,
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Sentence of a month's hard labour A giri, Chan Yuk-in, aix, was also was passed, the tickets were ordered removed to hospital after being to be returned to the complainants, mocked down by a private car driven heuse boys employed at No. 10 May by: Mre Chu Chung-fan at Talbers
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