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Dhrary,
Hongkong Telegraphe
FOUNDED 1801
No. 15020
六拜禮 號七十月九英港香 SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 17, 1938. 日四廿月七閏
SUDETENS OUTLAWED At this moment a
AS
FRESH
INCREASES
Prime Minister's Long Audience With The King
Special to "Telegraph”
Telegraphie Messages Ordinance, s. Copyright by United Press. ceived Septentber 12, 20 am: puablished, Sept. 17, 19. al.
Ne-
London, Sept. 16. VENTS ARE MOVING SWIFTLY in Czecho-
E Slovakia.
Concurrently with new outbreaks of rioting, which in some centres amounts almost to insur- rection, the Czech Government has outlawed the Sudeten-German Party and has ordered the disbanding of the Storm Troopers.
An intensive search is being conducted for Herr Honlein and other Sudeten leaders, for whom warrants charging High Treason have been issued.
Within four hours of his return to London, Mr. Neville Chamberlain was closeted with His Majesty the King.
An emergency meeting of the Cabinet will be held at 11 a.m. to-day (6 p.m. H.K.T.), and it is probable that Parliament will be summoned to meet early next week.
Circles close to those carrying on the negotiations regard the latest outlook as distinctly terrible.
The Empire is rallying to England. Australia and New Zealand have cabled that "where England goes we will go," while the Maharaja of Bikanar, ruler of nearly 10,000,000 people, has offered all the resources of his powerful State to the King-Emperor.-United Press.
Decisive Move
"SHOOT ON SIGHT"
Remarkable Allegations
Prague, Sept. 16. The Prague Government has outlawed the Sudeten Party and ordered the disbanding of all Sudeten-German Storm Troopers
RIOTING bomb burst
a scene typical typical
TENSION of war hazards
Typical of the hazards undertaken by British seamen is this remarkable picture taken by Mr. W. Johnston, bo'sun, of a bomb from a raiding robel plane actually bursting on a ship in Valencia Harbour. He was in a British ship lying near by. Bo'sun Johnston, said:...
I've bean bombed "Although I was making £10 a week, there's no more Spain for me.
ashore and afloat."
Empire Rallies To Aid
Motherland
The
Bikaner, Sept. 16.
and the seizure of their property, The Maharaja of Bikaner, ruler of nearly ten million The Czechs are moving decisively people, has telegraphed the Viceroy of India offering the to crust the entire Sudeten move- King Emperor all the resources of his state in the event ment, in defiance of Herr Hitler's of war. promise to aid the Germans In Czecho-Slovakia.
Prague Jas decreed that the of 20 different
By Sudeten Refugees districts, comprising times the cre SWISS TO
Sudeten area, must surrender oli arms and ammunition in their posses- or be liable to Imprisonment for sion of
n period of one month to five years, The Government here has begun compiling a list of charges against
REMAIN
ENOUGH WATER FOR 1938
But Colony Needs Copious Rains To Avert Shortage
In a telegram to Reuter the Maharaja stated that he has taken the earliest opportunity of
At the present rate of con- placing unreservedly at the King's command his own sword sumption Hongkong has stored Bad-Nelster, Sept. 16.
and services, his troops and then its reservoirs. sufficient water I entire resources of Bikaner for just over three months.
Unless SUDETEN-GERMANS
copious rains are (State. NEUTRAL arriving at this frontier
recorded shortly further drastic town on their way into Ger- Herr Henlein, leader of the Sudelen
"I and my subjects are ever pre-water restrictions are inevitable. Geneva, Sept. 10. pared to shed our last drop of blood
Total storage at the beginning of many as refugees from Party. In addition to the main charge
of treason for which a warrant hos Rumour that Fronce might even-for His Imperial Majesty's Army the month was only 3,131,000,000 numbers our gallons, which is approximately half Czecho-Slovakian territory aiready been issued.
tually demand right of passage for and though small in have made amazing charges More than a dozen allegations of French troops through Swiss army is prepared to proceed wherever of the capacity of all the Colony's It is required at a moment's notice. reservoirs. It is the lowest level against the Czech Govern-unconstitutional conduct have been territory in case of a European war,
recorded since the 3,000 million gallon. "We eagerly solicitate the honour Jubilee Reservoir at Shing Mun was the Gazette de Lausanne observes ment.
opened. that these rumours are obviously once again of fighting for His Majesty According to the refugees,
At the beginning of the month the based on certain declarations made should war unhappily break out in
Europe," declares the Maharaja's average monthly consumption for Prague has issued orders to Its
at the League Assembly in Geneva telegram, which adds that there is no the whole Colony was 069,410,000 troops and police to shoot on
during the debates two years ago on greater mistake than to imagine that gallons, nverage of over 800 sight all members of Storm
It is learned from good authority the question of sanctions, when it the Indian Princes will not again gallons per head of population. Troop organisations and certain that the report that a warrant has
Jublice Reservoir is at present less perty officials,
been issued for the arrest of Herr was maintained that. It would be the rally round their Emperor. to defend
than one-third full, and is being There are several hundred Henlein was premature: A com- duty of Switzerland, as a member of Empire
Bikaner was the first Indian Prince | heavily drawn upon to supply other
(Continued on Page 9.)
reservoirs. refugees gathered in the streets plaint has been lodged against him the League of Nations, to allow the of the town now, and it is said Minister of Justice and it will also order to come to the assistance of is being examined by the French army to cross her territory in that similar streams of Germans come before the Cabinet, but for the are making their way over the moment no decision has been reached. France's allies in central Europe. mountains into Germany from-Reuter.
all sections of the Sudeten areas
in Czecho-Slovakia,
made against the German lender. United Press,
and
Report Premature ?
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Yangtse Receding: Advanceon Wuhan Race Against Time
THE
BATTLE FOR HANKOW is developing into a race against time for the Japanese Navy.
Since Kiukiang fell nearly two months ago the Japanese Navy has been held up by a strong boom of sunken ships across the Yangtse, from Matow on the south bank, across to Wusueh on the north bank.
CHINA'S GENEVA
APPEAL
Geneva, Sept. 16.
DECLARING that
the
war of aggression in
Matow fell to the Japanese curlier this week, but the boom is still intact, guarded by the two forts of Wusuch, against which A combined Japanese aerial and naval bombardment has made no impression.
Now the Yangtse is rapidly falling, and soon it will be too late for the larger Japanese warships and transports attempt to proceed further inland.
to
Wusuch's Significance
Shanghai, Sept. 18. Japanese Headquarters here report
miles cast of
been the
the Peiping-Hankow
China is not unconnected this morning the capture of the town with the situation in of Shangcheng, situated about 40 Europe, Dr. Wellington Raliway. Koo, China's delegate to the Shangcheng has for some weeks League Council, made an Japanese offensive in the south of the main objective of the appeal to members to-day province of Honan, the sim being to cut..communications, between the to help "clip the wings of Chinese troops operating on the the monster of Japanese Lunghal Railway and the Chinese
army in
of Hankow. vicinity of aggression."
In the Japanese operations on the Hankow Dr. Koo asked the League to front are mainly concentrated on the take three steps:
capture of Wuruch, which an To immediately apply article 17 important strategic point on of the League Covenant (sanc-north bank of the Yangtze River.
A boom placed by the Chinese
tions):
the
To put an embargo on the export across the river has so far prevented of raw materials and financial the Japanese fleet from playing an credits to Japan and at the same
(Continued on Page 9.) time grant China financial credits and material nid;
To send a League commission of enquiry to China as a preliminary to measures to deter the Japanese from using poison gas and practic- ing indiscriminate bombing.
In an appeal for action the Chinese
STOP PRESS
diplomat asked his hearers if they Woman's Body
were
willing to accept the pronounce-
ment that the League is dead and to consider whether the League, Insofar as its mission is to defend peace and order in the world, is no more than an Egyptian mummy, dressed up with
Found In Nullah
The body of a 45-year-old woman
to
vine luxury and splendours of the Previous League declarations, de- clared the speaker. have utterly failed to arrest Japanese aggresion Mrs. Tong was found in a nullah in China; on the contrary it has near the six-mile post on the Shatin
Road
this morning. become more widespread and more
Police suspect that the woman, intensified,
who resides in the Shatin area, was to act He urged the Assembly
murdered. promptly and effectively, since times
Death were Criticnt and
was apparently due the situation
suffocation. Part of her clothing was critical.
Dr. Koo furnished an account of stuffed in the woman's mouth.
Mrs. Tang was last seen alive at the Japanese attacking strength and am on Thursday, when she left the extant of the invasion and the her home to proceed to Shamshulpo.
casualties. At least one
The body war taken to the Kow- million Chiness elvl)ians have been killed and thirty million forced to loan Mortuary, where a post-mortem become refugees, he declared, while will be held to-day. the destruction of Shanghai alione (Continued on Page 0.)
. 14 DISTRICTS
AFFECTED
Chinese
Severe Raid On
Canton Railway
Canton, Sept. 18.
London, Sept 15. In the event of the Czechs agree- ing to the German proposal they would lose the districts of Aussig, Teplitz, Komotau, Carlsbad, Grasells, Newdek, Asch, Eger, Elbogen, Marin- bad, Tachau, Krumau, Gablonz and Tratenau-United Press.
CZECHS ARRESTED
The paper points out that at that ime the Federal Council emphati Constitutional Action
cully repudiated this doctrine and Prague, Sept. 16.
that the Swiss Council's viewpoint The refugees" principal problem is
Apparently on a constitutional point what Germany will do.. It is sald
Severe damage to the Hankow-
IN VIENNA that many are unable to reach Ger- of procedure the original dissolution was even more justified to-day after
Mr. William P. Hunt, the U.S. financier who purchased, on Canton Railway was inflicted by 14 many owing to their homes being too of the Sudeten Party has been modi- Switzerland's affirmation of her ab-
Vienna, Sept. 17. dialant from the border and are at fled, and the Prague authorities have solute neutrality had been formally behalf of an American syndicate, the vast shipping and other in-Japanese planes which flew over to
Bixteen Lending members of the present hiding in the woods, having decided to suspend the activities of recognised by the Lengue itself. terests of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, has day in two groups. abandoned their homes.
the Party and submit the question
The first five planes dropped over Czech community in Vienna are re- The paper further points out that applied to the Bureau of Customs in Manila for permission to twenty bombs at Yingchunniu, and ported to have been arrested. Henlein's proclamation Is the main of its dissolution to
nine planes which followed later Anti-Czech demonstration Ret to which the refugees attribute committee of the Chamber of Depu- both the military and economic register three ships at present registered in Shanghal.
dropped about ten the ties, which is a competent body to situation of Switzerland is much
bombs at curred in, some districta in Vienna, The throy ships are believed to be Manila their home port and will Kwantlen. The damage to the track the demonstrators smashing windows take action.
more favourable to-day than in 1914 portion of the China Merchants feet fly the American flag. It is proposed that the body should and that Switzerland is consequently, azen over by Mr. Hunt's syndicate
is being rapidly repaired however, of houses they imagined inhabitedi pronounce dissolution of the party better able than she ever was to as- from the Chinese Government. that they will not recognise the trans- leave to-night in an attempt to get
and it is expected that one train will by⋅ Czechs-Router, event, and the Deputies would immedaitely sure her neutrality in the event of Should the vessels be granted fer of ships formerly owned by the through to the north,Our Own (Purther Stop Press News us
(Continued on Page 9.).
war.—Trans-Ocean,
Philippine registry, they will make (Continued on Page 9.). Correspondent,
all
the Czech moves against Sudetena
Most of the refugees here havo been quartered in private houses but the town is becoming very crowded (Continued on Page 9.)
permanent
"Japanese" authoruies have
stated
Page 9.)
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