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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. in
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Urges Aid For China From Britain
London, July 6,
An uppeal to the British Govern- ment to consider the desirability of helping to maintain the stability of Chinese currency was made by Lord Lytton this morning in a letter to the Times.
Lord Lytton states that, apart from considerations of justice and
TUESDAY, JULY
1938.
BRITISH ALARMING WARSHIPS CHOLERA FOR TURKS INCREASE
Agreement Before House Of Commons
London, July 4.
14 New Cases In 24 Hours
With 14 new cases of cholora
From a political point of view, Great Britain was glad to fect that during the last 24 hours the Anglo-Turkish friendship rested on a scourge in Hongkong is begin-
humanity, it is in the British Interests Secure and soild basis, drelurrd thening to assume serious propor-| Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John! Simon, amid cheers, in the House of tions. Commons to-day.
of
to
the Anglo-Turkish | Agréement Bill,
musi material itind that stabilty of Chinese currency should be maln
According to the health au- tained.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer thorities there have been about If projects such as the issue of a was moving the Second Reading of 35 deaths to date, while a total substantial loan in the London market are to be abandoned when which Implements the free financial of 68 casos have been notified, the value of the dailor is falling and economic agreements concluded No Europeans are included in the purely on, account of a foreign in with Turkey in May.
latest batch of victims. It is under- vasion, not only shall we be open, t
The first the charge of placing a quarantine on granting by agreement relates to the stood that the three seamen from he or an export German steamer, Assuan, are now the victims of aggression instead of credit uirumeul completes the exist-there is every hope of their ultimate credit guarantee of £10,000,000. The making satisfactory progress, and the aggressors, but we shall also be sec
second agreement neglecting our manifold interests,
Lord Lytton also urges that carefuting clearing agreement between the recovery.
two con
countries
ond the
third authorises Figures for the week-ending July consideration should be given to the granting of credits in case of 2 show that 27 cholera coses were re-
of economic every possibility
co-Turkish orders for
or other ported by the authorities, und of operation with China, especially in
these, 14 proved fatal. Teo in Britain. the undeveloped areas in the south-
war materials purchased or
Sir John Simon explained that the were imported, 13 came from Vic- west.-Reuter.
agreement forming the schedule of toria, four from Kowloon, two from the only one needing Shaukiwan, four from the New Ter-
and four from the harbour. Parliamentury confirmation. Under ritories
Under Another new case of smallpox was this agreement, the British Govern- | All ment undertook to advance, by way also reported during the past 24 of a loan to Turkey, sum not ex-jours, as well as ten new victims of ceeding £0,000,000, payable by the dysentery, bringing the total to 430, Turkish Government under contracts three of enteric fever for the purchase in the United King- dom of materials necessary for the defence
Japanese Fear Chinese Will
"WHEN THIEF MEETS THIEF" Flood Hankow
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Shanghai, July 5, Rather than allow the Japanese to enter Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will tear a page from Dutch history and find the city and entire countryside, according to reports reaching here.
Generalissimo is reported to be determined to effect breaches in the Yingise River above Hankow, so
that Hankow, Banyang and Wuchang will be floored.
the BID
WDE
The Chancellor said that both
meanles.
casey
and one of
Turkey and Great Britain bad the Hundreds Die
some supreme objective, numely, the preservation of pence in the world, ed against any other country. Both and their friendship was not direct- Turkey and Grect Britain desired to be strong for the purpose of impro ving and reserving the prosperity and standard of living of their own people.
Reuter Special.
BANDITS ATTACK
(Continued from Page 1.)
Sources here state that the HONGKONG RESIDENCE Generalissimo will not take thist action until the fall of Hankow appears inevitable and imminent, an opportune moment, in view of the effect of the Yellow River breachings on Japanese troops movement In Honon.
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savagely attacked them, seizing one of the men, by the legs.
The man turned on the dog with his chopper and knocked It Insensible with two blows that laid its head open.
In July 4
Celebrations
New York, July 4. July the Fourth cost more than 800 lives in violent deaths, statistics trickling in to United Press bureau here disclose.
the
One hundred and fifty-nine people were killed in motor cars, while 73 were 12 in the metropolitan area of were drowned. Included in the latter New York, where 3,000,000 people thronged to Coney Isla various beaches around the city.
Coney Island and Shootings and other violent forms of death accounted for 74 lives, while The three men took fright as Mre, two persons lost their lives through
from the airfield und, Included in the freak without molesting her any further,dicath was that of a circus worker, they decamped, apparently without who was butted to death against a having time to take anything with truck by an elephant.-United Press. them.
DUTCH AIR ROUTE L's screams threatened to bring fireworks explosions.
TO AUSTRALIA
Port Durwin, July 4. Inaugurating the new Amsterdam- Mrs. Lafleur staggered outside the Sydney air mail service, a Nether-house and down the road to the lands air liner arrived here at noon R.A.F. station, from where she was to-day from Batavia, bringing as a taken to Kowloon Hospital in an am- passenger representative of the bulance. Netherlands East Indies Government.
0
Police were quickly on, the scene,
[
The official is en route to Canberra, but up ita a late hour this afternoon the capital of Australia, to arrange had made no arrests. for a visit of the Governor General of Australia to the Netherlands East Indies later this year.-Reuter,
SEQUEL TO
WOUNDING
Described as watchmen, Lau Lau,
30, and Li Ke, 30, appeared remand before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett the Kowloon Magistracy this at morning charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding a pig breeder named Mok Yat, 01. at the Kat Tak Bund on July 27.
A further remand of seven days was made.
POLICE OFFICER
VICTIMISED
Sub-Inspector R. G. Butcher, of the Water Police, reported the loss of a basket containing bathing costumes, toweln and shoes from his motor car, No. 1893, which was left parked in Prince Edward Road near La Salle Hood yesterday. The value of the lost property is $13.30.
NOT SERIOUS
causes of
Raft Search Under City
After searching, an underground stream racing at 40 mph. beneath Stoke-on-Trent, police in punts and fall in two days before. on rafts found the body of a boy who
He was Willlom Frederick Stone- hewer, aged six, of Liverpool-road,
Mrs, Lafleur's condition is not re- garded as serious. Enquiries at the Kowloon Hospital indicate that she is suffering chiefly from shock,
"We have lived in that house for Stoke-on-Trent, five years, and this is the first time anything has ever happened, despite balance and fall into the raging flood A school friend saw him over- its remoteness from the-built areas," said Mr. Lafleur,
up water, swollen by recent rains, who was while standing on a plank at a spot Mrned to lifs home as soon as just before the stream rung under- Mrs. Lafleur was discovered.
"Because of our proximity to the R.A.F. station, We have thought it advisable to close the gates"
never
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The baby who, like Jack Spratt, tun cat no fat is recovering from an illness in the Hospital for Sick Child- ren, Great Ormond Street, London.
Kenneth Hope, aged one year and from his home in Dartford, Kent, a Len months, was taken to the hospital few weeks ago, and placed in an exy- gen tent,
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Kenneth's food consists of asses milk, supplied regularly from a farm at North Rhyl.
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