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No. 10501
FOUNDED 1001 四拜禮號八七月七英港香 THURSDAY,
JULY 28,
1938.
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$890,000 FOR Loyalists Smash Italo-Moroccan Resistance
RELIEF OF
DESTITUTES
Colony's Destitute And
War Refugees Will Have Camp Abodes
Government's plans for the relief of destitute men, women and children in Hongkong, including war refugees, were revealed in Legislative Council this afternoon by the Colonial Secretary, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith.
They provide for an initial expenditure of $889,520, more than $500,000 of which will be for capital cost in con- nection with the construction of Refugee Camps in North Point and Kowloon Tsai, a camp on the Marina site and an Emergency Refugee Scheme for Kowloon Tsai.
Work is to commence on the projects immediately. In answer to a question by the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith said:
"The refugee problem is cons plicated by the absence
of
accurate statistics and, in parti- BRITAIN
cular, of any means of estimating
the extent to which the poorest MUST LOOK
class of the resident population has been displaced from its homes by a refugee inflex ol relatively wealthier persons.
"There is good reason for believing? that this has taken place on a large scale,
"According
to the Information mainly available which is derived from railway and steamer figures, checked though these have been
against other returns, it is reasonable
to suppose that the
Increuse of
TO HER
INTERESTS
12 leat outskir
the population during the months coming from Colony is somewhat under
Ine of these, it is
8 per cent. over
the!
250,000
"Times" Gives Japan Sharp Warning
London, July 28.
The situation in the Far East
SUDETENS HONOURED BY HITLER-Sudeten leaders at the funeral in Eger. Üzecho-Slovakla, of two followers killed by Czech police for refusing to halt.
Left to right: Major Moericke, German Air Attache at Prague; Konrad Henlein, Sudeten chief. Dr. Karl H. Frank, Sudeten deputy, and Colonci Touissant, German Military Attache, who brought evergreen wreaths from Chancellor Hitler,
FATHER JACQUINOT VANISHES
Cannot Be Traced After Missing Ship In Japan
Tukyo, July 28. The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Father Jacqul net, famous as the founder of neutral zone in Nantao during
RUSSIA AND JAPAN IN DEADLOCK ON BORDER DEMARCATIONPROBLEM
Tokyo. July 28.
The Foreign Office Wednesday night issued a resume of the negotiations concerning the proposed organisation of border commissions between Manchukuo, Japan, and Soviet Russia. The negotiations, started in 1932, have yet to produce any concrete result.
The resume says that with a view to securing
BOLD OFFENSIVE BY INTERNATIONAL.
BRIGADE SUCCEEDS
Disaster Overtakes Franco's Army; 7,000 Surrender As Offensive Is Pressed
With the Loyalists near Racquera, July 27. In the little World War that has raged along the Ebro River sector, American, British and other units of the International Brigade have forced the Italians and Moors to retreat from Gandesa.
Seven thousand Insurgent troops, mostly Italians and Moroccans, have surrendered in one of the greatest disasters that has overwhelmed General Franco's forces.
It is estimated that 75,000 Loyalists are now engaged. on a 95-mile front reaching from Amposta along the
have
Ebro Valley to Ribarroja.
In a semi-circular thrust, the Loyalists advanced 20 miles and expect that Gandesa, long-
regarded as the principal Insurgent base on this front, will crumble soon under incessant heavy artillery bom- bardment.
Considerable 'Success
AIR MAIL VASTLY INCREASED
Saragossa, July 28. The importance "of the Loyalist : offensive is emphasised by the re- luctance of the Insurgents to detail the operations.
Greal aviation reinforcements have been rushed to the Ebro front where the
Loyalists
have crossed the river. The Insurgents ure.continually bomb- the pontoon bridges and clalm
Ing!
it 15
Is understood
is the subject of an editorial in the Shanghai hostilities and harmonious relations between Japan and the Soviet Hongkong Total Now several have beeners sym
It declares credited with saving hundreds of Union, particularly regarding the border question (89,316 Pounds In Year pathetic to the Loyalists gave them
the Times to-day.
estimated the lull in the European field lives thereby, is deepening.
coincides with the opportunity,
Although they hove intensifled
of
between Manchukuo and Soviet Union, the Japanese Government for several years past has urged upon the
Government the necessity Soviet
establishing appropriate commissions for the purpose of redemarcat- ing the boundary between Manchukuo and Soviet Russia and setting disputes arising from the uncertain status of boundary lines.
that since the 1831 census was taken
population has increased by which is almost a necessity, for their search the Japanese police have least 50 per cent, while the number of tormenta has increased by about re-examining the British posi-thus far failed tes find no trace of him.
period. tion in the Far East, all threats the same
Archbishop Dos, in Tokyo and From the estimates it is possible to to which, in the course of the Bishop Chainton, in Yokohama, have
in some idea of the overcrowding past year, have arisen from the not seen Father Jacquinot. which now obtains locally.
Searches of seaside and mountain "There have been some 30,000 same quarter.
For some time it has been clear, resorts have falled to reveal a trace persons steeping in the streets during
As no the Times declares, that the damage of the priest.-- Reuter, the current summer month.
inflicted upon British interests in (Continued on Page 7.)
Father Jacquinot has been in China is only portfally due to the consequences of
of hostilities und the war victims and is reported to have ed to yield any tangible result owing The negotiations have so far fall- Japanese Government is either unobtained U.S.$700,000 for this pur- abic or unwilling to prevent a recur-pos
pose. He was travelling by the Em by the Soviet Union, notwithstanding to the unfavourable attitude shown rence or to make redress.
aílitude The facts are the Tokyo Govern- Press of Asia but missed his ship he concllintory
of the when he was travelling between
soys the Tokyo and Kobe by train, It was reported.
resume points out that In suggested to the Såviet
GUARDING AGAINST SEDITION
New Ordinance Introduced
ment only
has precarious
control
America collecting funds for China's
Japanese resume. The
over its commanders in China. The discipline of the Japanese forces on
over-received from him from Kobe. A ern
| the mainland is not of a sufficiently Since then a brief message
high standard Invariably to come
Government,
was) Dec 132, the Japanese Gay.
putes, and in May and June in the following year, conversations regard- ing the proposed commission held between the Foreign Office and the Soviet Embassy.
were
JAPANESE SEVERELY HANDLED
Column Surprised In Lunghai Area
Chengchow, July 28. The Japanese suffered heavy losses during n Chinese surprise attack in the vicinity of Kweitch, on the Lung- hai Railway in east Honan, on Tues-
the ultra-nationalistic pro- parcel, addressed to a friend in Government the desirability of es- judlees which have been inflamed by Shanghat in his handwriting, arrived tablishing a commission composed of anti-British
propoganda
with a Nagasaki postmark, But be-Japanese, Manchukuoan, and Soviet Discussing the possibility of a rapid yond this there in no clue to his representatives to settle border dis- Japanese victory, the Times pays a whereabouts, tribute to "the remarkable skill" "Art ordinance to make better with which the Yangtse River hos communica- provision for the prevention and been used as a line of punishment of sedition" was intro-lon which the Chinese cannot cut, duced at the Legistative Council meet-And the paper adds it is probably a matter of time before Han- merely a ing this afternoon.
The bill is based on a model ordin-
"Time is becoming almost as pre- ance compiled by the direction of the
clour to Japan Secretary of Stale, and repeals and
other substitutes new provisions relating to "Even if Hankow is taken the success
materials," the paper points sedition for the provisions of tho will still be ominously tardy Seditious
Publications Importation The literature is dealt with inblcludes, is one in which she cannot English Colonel Saved proposed border commission in view while seven were captured. intitled the Prohibited Publications c
1914
Jcow
Tow falls.
raw
out.
Japan's position, the Timica, con-
Ordinance.
of seditious
safely continue to flout indefinitely!
Ordinance, 1838, which was also in- Reuter
interests of third parties.-
Lo-day. The troduced Publications Ordinance, therefore repealed.
Seditious 1914, la
PREMIER MAKES
· NO PROMISE
Dramatic Rescue By German Ship
In Mid-Channel
The Colonel was sailing with his
But due to the opening of negotia tlong for the transfer of the North Manchuria Railway (formerly East- ern Chinese Railway), the conversa-
lons were naturally dropped.
Conversation Resumed
In the spring of 1935, conversa tions were resumed regarding
their frontiers.
the
OL
day
considerable assistance, notwith- standing which the Insurgents claim a whole division has been completely
wiped out. Reuter.
Gandesa Surrounded
Barcelona, July 28.
A substantial Increase in air mall received and despatched by all alr lines during the past year was re- vealed in the annual report of the Postmaster General, Mr. 1. 1. Wynne- Jones, which was tabled before the Legislative Council this morning. It is officially claimed that the In- The total weight of air mail was surgent hase at Gandesa is surround- 80,316 (bs, as compared with 21,270 ed.
s. In 1930.
Moreover 4,000 prisoners have been
The number of parcels handled taken, all of them Spaniards. Much
(Continued on Page 7.) also showed a large increase over the 1036 figures, the total in 1937 being 188,026, compared with 164,482 the previous your. This was due to im- proved local trade conditions and to the diverston to Hongkong services of a considerable amount of trame on account of the postal dificulties by the Chinese Postal
experation during the latter half |
of the year.
The balance of revenue over the expenditure charged against the de- partmental vote was $1,489,718. Ex- to penditure for 1937 amounted $787,755 compared with $497,380 in 1936 while revenue totalled $2,227,-. 473 as against $1,380,823.
and
AIR MAIL SUBSIDY
mainly due to the payment of the The increase in expenditure was
Numbering about 2,000, the Japan- tranalt charges payable for the car- air mail subsidy and the additional ese were moving eastward when they rloge of air malls. Revenue showed were attacked by the Chinese. Takon completely by surprise, they were thrown into confusion. A large num- ber of them were killed and wounded
In addition, the Chinese
seized more than 200 rifles, 30,000 cartridges, 40 cases of flour and 70 horses.
a romórkable improvement (Continued on Page 7.j
MUI - TSAIS REDUCED
cent bloody fighting cast of Kwich IN NUMBER
Central Neon.
Fighting Raging In
'Taihu Area
of the recurrence of border incidents. Investigations into the basic causes of such
convinced the disputes
On the same day, Chinese unita Japanese Government of the necessity London, July 27.
of redemarcating boundary lines also defeated a Japanese column in The crew of the German tanker since the disputes were found to be the vicinity of Lanfeng, scene of re One of the clauses of this import-
Marie Leonhardt to-day saved largely due to the uncertainty ant mennure states: "If u magistrato
Englishman, Colonel Hanafia, from boundary lines or divergence in the la satisfied by information on outh
drowning under the most dramatic Manchukuo and Soviet claims as to that there is reasonable cause to be-
London, July 27. circumstances. iteve that an offence under this ordin- Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Labour once has been or is about to be com- member, asked the Prime Minister inson in the Channel and
ant a search warrant the House mitted he may grant a
of Commons to-day difficulties in authorizing any police officer to enter whether he would give a definite storm. Several
the pledge that the House would be sum-without seeing the distress signals ment asserted that the frontier lincs warrant, with such assistance as may be necessary, and if necessary by ment of the Spanish question con- night, they were finally noticed by Russian transpo force, and to search the premises or
er templated by the Anglo-Italian the German tanker. pluce and every person found therein, Agreement was reached,
Rescue work started Immediately, anything found on the Mr. Chamberlain replied: "No, Sir, premises or place which the officer I cannot go so far as to give a one but the Colonel fell overboard, and has reasonable ground for suspecting pledge about conditions which have a lifeboat had to be launched. He to be evidence of an offence under not yet arisen and may not arise was saved, in spite of the heavy seas.
--Tranz-Ocean. this ordinanco,!!
British Wirelcas,"
ни
The response of the Soviet Govern- got into ment to the Japanese proposal in this a great northwest connection was not favourable, the steamers passed resume says. The Soviet Govern
Liuan, July 28.
any premises or place named In moned it, during the Necess a settle-sent up by the yacht, but, in the were clearly established by the Sino-raging in the Talhu area, south-west Elstered mui-tsais was 1,884, but by
and to
selzo
} The report of the Secretary for Chinose Affairs for 1997, which was| tabled before the Legislative Council this afternoon states that at the begin- Fighting of a severe nature is now ning of the year the number of re- attached of Talenshan in west Anwel where reduced to 1,898 through deaths, the end of December they had been thereto. Accordingly, they refused the Chinese, with the arrival of to enter into negotiations, express heavy reinforcements, are vigorously marriages, and other causes.
Sixty-one persons were prosocuted settlement commission for the
of trust.
In muf-teat cares conterning 50 girls, ing only their desire to establish a resisting the Japanese westward
The Japanese drive was commenc- and in all 83 charges, mainly concern- frontter disputes.
The Japanese Government was ofed on July 24 but its vigour wasing 1-treatment and failure to 10-
(Continued on Page 7.)
(Continued on Page 7.)
port, were preferred.
STOP PRESS
PLANES GUARD HANKOW
an
Hankow July 28. Shortly after 10 um. to-day air ruld alarm was sounded here.
Immediately more than 20 fast pursuit planes took off and patrolled over the city.
No
The sky was very overcast. raiders appeared.
was
The "all clear" alguot 11.10 a.m.-nited Press.
given at
(Further Stop Press Nows on,"
Pago 12.)