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Myrna
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The new rates came into force at midnight this morning. They re present reductions amounting, in come Instances to one-fifth of the old rales.
The reductions apply to all parts of the British Empire, Including Colonles, Protectorates and Mandated Territories.
MONDAY APRIL 25, 1938,
BRITAIN
FRAMING
FRIENDLY TREATIES
Accord With Eire Only One Phase Of Activities
Pacification Parley
Japanese Concerned For Welfare Of New Government
Peiping, Apr. 25. ̧
fention officers, and also Japanese advisers to all the Halen mugistrates, assembled here yesterday under the auspices of General Kita's special
A conference of all Japanese paci-
Diplomats Head Military Aftales Bureau, presumably
For London
to discuss ways and means of more
Chinese effectively converting the
the Provisional accept populace Government rule.
to
London, Apr. 24, One officer sald that 20 omcipls Despite the developments in had been killed by plain-clothesmen Central Europe, Spain and the during the past few months, and many were privately expressing a Far East still claim a prominent desire to return to their safer and place in the public eye. Londonf better paid jobs in Manchukuo. will also be a very important visional Government centre of interest during the week-end.,
Following the arrival of the Irish leaders to-day, an agreement be tween Britain and Elre WIR be signed to-morrow after a luncheon at No. 10 Downing Street, where the signatories will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Neville Chamberlain,
The Yung Pao says that the Pro- 18 shortly appointing a Governor in Shansi. The paper predicts that Sul Tu-yan is one of the most likely candidates for the position.-United Press.
JAPAN PLANS EXPLOITATION OF CHINA ON LARGE SCALE
(Continued from Page 1.)
It now generally understood that the agreement will extend to defence as well as trade tariffs and land annultics. It is believed the latter will be settled by an arrange- will be devoted to defence, though ment whereby annuities payments the text of the agreement will not be published until Tuesday morning for the co-ordinated development of It is hoped that the agreement will various resources.-United Press. open a new chapter in Anglo-Irish! Experts said official control would relations, bringing a friendier feeling not be limited to matters relating to than for many years.
also con- would production but they Monday will also see an important
sider
disribution and sales. meeting of the Cabinet in order to
question of They said that the hear the proposals for Sir John competition with similar industries in Simon's first budget, which will be Japan and Manchukuo would receive revealed in the House of Commons attention. Certain territorial price on Tuesday. This will be followed On Wednesday
by the arrival of cements with Japanese and Man- chukuo firms would become neces- M. Edouard
the French Daindier,
sary, Premier, and
Mr. Georges Bonnet, War Minister, for conversations with
Vis Mr. Neville Chamberlain and count Halifax, which are opening on Thursday.
understood they will have three long conferences before returning to Paris on Friday.
Baron Selnosuke Go, President of The agendu is still being drafted, Japanese Diet during its last session. but points which will be discussed:
the Japan Economic Federation, re-
FIGHTING RAGES ON 100-MILE FRONT
(Continued from Page 1) Talerchwang and marching through the battered town to wipe out the
Japanese command seems to be resorting to its favoured tactics of another flanking movement by shifting the main forces for a bid on Pelhsien and Tancheng, 50 kilometres are, to the cast.
2MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW memory of their earlier defeat the
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JESSIERS
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To forestall the Japanese attempt, close contact has been secured be tween the Chinese rigt wing on the Taierchwang front and the Chinese forces north of Pelhsien and north west of Tancheng.
Holding Ground
It
"They said that the subsidiaries would probably be formed soon after the Y300,000,000 North China Dove- topment Company was
formally or- ganised, and after the terms of the Let the Sill had been approved by
of Britated to include the relations cently accepted the chairmanship of
and France with Italy the organisation committee of the and Germany, the question of the recogaltion of the Itallon conquest of new firm.-United Press. Abyssinia, the future of Spain and the Spanish Islands, the
colonial question, and the problems of Central Europe.
The French Ministers, it is expect- ed, will explain how France would assist Czecho-Slovakia, if called on to do so.
Sporadic fighting throughout the A British loan to France is not line broke out yesterday and early I now believed to be included on the this, morning, with the Chinese firm- agenda.-Reuter.
ly holding their ground.
Fresh reinforcements, at the same lime, were rushed to strengthen the defence of the eastern section of the Lunghai railway.
the
Early yesterday morning, Japanese at Yibsien opened a heavy attack on the Chinese positions north of Nikow but were repulsed by the. Chinese troops.
Chinese, Raiders At Tehchow
Arctic Party Reports On Findings
EGYPT'S TARIFFS NOT POPULAR WITH BRITAIN
Cairo, Apr, 24.
The British Embassy has handed to the Egyptian Government a note expressing the British Government's serious misgivings regarding the in- creases in tariffs on cotton, piece goods and yarns, instituted on April 11.
The note declares that Britain considers the inriffs may further damage trade between Lancashire and Egypt.-Reuter.
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STOP PRESS NEWS
SOURCE OF MAIL FIRE EXPLAINED
Fleet Going To Weihaiwei
It was announced this morning that the China Fleet would leave Hong- kong for Weihaiwel on or about June The analyst's report on two of the 2. The decision finally puts at rest mail fires which have occurred In rumours that Weihaiwej would be.. Hongkong within the last eight daye. abandoned because of Japanese oc- has been received at the same time
Three thousand Japanese artillery and Infantry forces, which launched
Moscow, April 24. an offensive from the south-east of Professor Otto Schmidt, bearded Yihsten on Lienfangshan, to the hero of a number-of Arelle exjedi- north-west of Pelhsien, were routed tions, who was recently reported to after a bitter struggle with the be in "disgrace," was present at a Chinese forces which lasted four meeting of the Soviet Academy of hours on the afternoon of April 23.- Sciences here during the week-end, METAL FOR WAR Central News.
and made
a short speech, Three out of the four scientists who
Tokyo, Apr, 25. spent
nine months drifting on an ice- An order to conserve pig-Iron. reported to the meeting on the which is essential for war material, is Shanghai Post Office here to assist Admiral Sir Percy Noble, will leave.
ns the arrival of M. Chapelin of the cupation of the area.
The Commander-in-Chief, Vice- work they had carried out, and made by the Ministry of Commerce
in police investigations.
for Shanghai in H.M.S. Falmouth on related interesting results of depth and Industry to-day, which un- The Postmaster-General, Mr. E. Moy 7. soundings in the Central Polar basin, nounces new regulations for restrict-Wynne-Jones, stated to-day that on and showed samples of
of ground taken ing the use of metal for the manufac- this report there was no evidence to from depth of two and
and a half miles. ture of cast-iron articles.
show that a bomb or ignition ap- The new rules are appileable on
paratus was responsible for the a prize to commemorate the exploit May 15,
destruction of the mall. The analyst
truces The makers of iron braziers, ash had found considerable In a previous rald recently, it will of the leefloe scientists. It will be
of be remembered, the Chinese forces awarded every three years for the trays, and iron poles will be among caustic soda which led him to believe succeeded in destroying a Japanese best scientific achievement In the i those affected by the new regulations. that packages containing metallic plane on the ground-Central News. Arctic regions-Reuter.
sodium-highly Inflammable sub- stance in a naked state-were con- tained in the mall and that this chemical started the fre. proximity of films in the first case added to the dames.
Chengehow, Apr. 25. A strong force of Chinese guerillas, swooping down on the Japanese aerodrome al Telichow, destroyed the
+
storehouses in a surprise The Academy decid
decided to institute
oil supplice night of April 22.
raid on
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The
These facts probably accounted for the fres which destroyed and damaged mall in the General Post Office on Sunday and Monday last weck,
said Mr. Wynno-Jones. That mail was sent from Shanghai for Hankow, Chungking, Changsha and the interior.
As regards the steamer Kwang tung's mall fire yesterday, the cause was unknown but the mail en board had been received from a variety of pinces.
Question us to the legality of such articles as metallic sodium and films mall, Mr. Wynne-Jones said that Aims were allowed to be sent through the mall provided they were
in the
ta certain packing-tins within a wooden box. In this case, the Alms were in tins but were not in a wooden box. As regards chemicals, etc., It was prohibited to
corrosive and Inflenmable substances.
The
responsibility for the presence of such articles in the mail rested with the dispatching, Post Office, agreed Mr. Wynne-Jones. He added that Hongkong would not normally be concerned with these incidents since the mails would have gone straight through instead of being landed here for re-transmission. Hongkong was acting as an exchange for mail because of the hostilities.
The Postmaster General, stated that Shanghai was immediately in- formed by cable of the occurréncă,
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