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EXPEL
NOVEMBER 23,
ANGLO-JAPANESE TALIANS PARLEYS END IN FORMER
DISAGREEMENT
Efforts to Re-Open Pearl
River for British Ships
H.K. FIRM'S PROPERTY: QUESTION IN COMMONS
THE ILLEGAL ENTRY:
CANTON, Nov. 23. NEGOTIATIONS BE- TWEEN the, British and Japanese authorities in Canton have
down.
broken
As a result, the de-
by Japanese soldiers into parture of the British the premises of Messrs.
Wallace Harper & Co., Ltd., steamer Kinshan, which
in Fung Ling Street, Can-
ton, and the confiscation of was to have left for
a number of motor cars and Hongkong, has been
a quantity of accessories,
exclusively reported by the postponed indefinitely. "Telegraph" on November The
of nature
9, had a sequel in the House difficulties has
of Commons yesterday.
During Question Tinie, Mr. A.
revealed.
the not been
Negotiations have been between the authorities of British
C. Crossley, Conservative M.P.proceeding
for the Stretford Division
on
Lancaster, asked the following Shameen and the Japanese -question:
naval military and
au-
"Has the Prime Minister caused a protest to be made to the Japanese thorities for some time. Government at the entry of Japanese It will be recalled that soldiers into the premises of the British Commander-in-
Ute
Andrew Harper Company in Canton,
and the seizure of motor cars and Chief, Sir Percy accesscries on the premises, in spite
of British consular seals having been recently
placed on the building.",
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary
Japanese
Noble, visited the Commander-in-
of State for Foreign Affairs, repiled Chief, the call being subse-
FAR EAST REPORTER
1938.
+INGLE COPY 10 CENTE
PER ANNUM
1938 OUN LOP
· SO YEARS OF CHOWTH
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyra with 2,000 Teeth
France Forestalls Belligerent Rights For Franco
ROME, Nov. 22.
THE ITALIAN AUTHORITIES have ordered Frank S. Mothers of the "Chicago Daily News," former For Eastern correspondent, to leave Rome before the end of the month.
The expulsion is due to the "unfriendly tone" of his despatches, particularly those concerning ratification of the Anglo-Italian agreement.
It is noteworthy that he is the tenth newspaper corres- pondent to be expelled this year.-United Press.
Group of ship's officers and relief workers who left. by the China Navigation steamer Wuchang this morning for Canton.-Staff Photographer.
"
Company'
Chinese Communist Party
Issue War
ihat 2: Foreign Minister, Lord quently returned in Hong- HUNDREDS
Halifax, had called for report on kong.
the case.
In the "Telegraph" report of the It is hoped that negotiations Incident, it was discussed that the have not ended in complete] premises were closed and sealed with the seal of the British Consulate when failure, and that the Kinshan
the Japanese forcibly entered.
In
may be able to get away during
order io effect entry. the the coming week-end. Japanese broke the cansulor seals. It is understood that the
the
and Japanese authorities are plan- thening every inducement to urge Cantonese, now taking refuge in Hongkong and Macao, to return to Canton.
A huge signboard, carrying name of
in Roman the firm Chinese characters, was over doorway.
The British ensign was flying from a flagpole on top of the building. and the Union Jack was painted on the door.
Non-Stop From the London To Vancouver
London, Nov. 22.
More Strikes In France
Valencienne, Nov. 22.
iron and steel
Five-thansand
DEAD IN LANDSLIDE
Terrible Tragedy On
St. Lucia
NEW YORK, Nov. 22. IT IS ESTIMATED that
Manifesto
CHUNGKING, Nov. 22.
CORRESPON-
DENESS to-day received GERMANY'S
copies of the voluminous "Resolution" of, the "En- larged Sixth Plenary Ses- sion of the Central Com-
"
mittee of the Chinese held Communist Party," recently in Yenan.
The gist of the document, briefly is as follows;
sixth
ENVOY SAYS GOOD-BYE
serious.
Reuter.
сп
PARIS, Nov. 22. THE POSSIBILITY OF General Franco getting belligerent rights out of the Franco- British conversations in Paris appeared to have been definitely forestalled on the eve of the arrival of Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax.
It is believed M. Georges Bonnett was able to give
assurances in this sense to LOYALISTS Sen. del Veyo, who came to
Paris to sound out the RETREAT FROM French before the discus- sions with the British
| Ministers begin.
The French Government's in- tention to stand by the terms of tho London non-intervention agreement, and not to agree to the granting of belligerent rights; before all volunteers in Spain have been withdrawn, publicly announced last night by M.
SAGRES
Insurgents Claim Pressure Relieved
PARIS, Nov. 22. REPORTS FROM THE was Franco-Spanish frontier
Leon Blum, speaking at the Paris State that according to the meeling of the International Peace Insurgents the bridge at the head of the Sagre River
Compaign.
Mt. Blum, who had previously seen
M. Bonnet, Fald: The Foreign sector near Seros, which has Minister told me there could be no
to General Franco."
question of granting belligerent rights been seriously threatened during recent days, has M. Blum said he did not believe been completely freed from
he was revealing any Government
a result of position operations by the Navarre
Divisions.
WDE tin-
secret in making the statement, and pressure as
Cabinet added that the against belligerent rights animous.
According to reports from Lon- don, the British position is the The Loyalists, it is reported, were forced to abandon several Although the granting of bell-important redoubts on the right- gerent rights was considered recently, bank of the river which were the viewpoint Mr. Chamberlain
12:12.
and Viscount Halifax is that discus- believed to be besieged as bases sion of the subject should be post-for attacks on the Lerida-Fraga poned until Januury.-United Press. road.
LATE NEWS
Japanese Ship Waterlogged After Fire
not known.
(Further Late News on Page 12.)
In a battle in this position yesler- day, the Insurgents, it is reported, took 1,200 prisoners.
Activity became impossible Later yesterday on account of the bad weather, but the Insurgents profited by the calm, and effected several reconnalsance expeditions inlo Loyal- ist territory.
Bad weather also prevented fight- ing in the Ebro region.-United Preis.
Hacha Seen As
Wuchang Leaves Harbour On Mission of Mercy
3
Dieckhoff Departs
Shanghai, Nov. 23. From America
Waterlogged following strenuous efforts to put out a disastrous fre which swept the cargo-laden holds WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.
yesterday
Nishin Kizen Czech President moming, the DR. HANS DIECKHOFF, the Kaisha's Maru, le
German Ambassador to dangerously
Prague, Nov. 22. Chinese now In Canton, how-hundreds of people were buried Based on the report by Com-
hear to stung. Mr. the Yangtse wharf at
It is understood that an agreement The vessel is described by the has been reached between the party ever, are not allowed to leave in a mountain landslide on the rade Mao Tse-tung, leader of Washington, called
owners as a Tientsin-Shanghal corgo lenders under which Dr. Hachu, the the city unless the Japanese
carrler.
They said that it caught fire minent lawyer, and chief of the authorities are in possession of land of St. Lucia. They were the Chinese Communist Party, Cordell Hull today to say good-
plenary bye.
He entered Mr. Hull's office with of @ am. yesterday. The cause of Supreme Court, will be put forward most adequate material the inhabitants of two hamlets the enlarged
the conflagration a broad smile, but emerged looking
as a candidate for the Presidency of guarantee for their return. which were overwhelmed by an session of the Central Committee
resolved:
Formerly the vessel plied between the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia, avalanche eight miles long. United Press.
Observations on China's resistance He told pressinen that he had only Tientsin and Canton-Reuter,
M. Chvalkovsky, who is also a Rescuers had hardly started to
10 months the been saying goodbye, but he did not recover the bodies of 45 dead and during the past
candidate, would remain Foreign MinisterReuter. 60 injured in one landslide, when present war is a great historic event another buried all the dead again as in the development of the Chinese Hive Mr. Hull any meuage, and he well as some of the injured, and race, and the war has completed did not know when he would be several of the rescuers:"
unprecedented unity of the Chinese Going to Germany, or when he would It la expected that Dr. Disckhoff We have caused the enemy to return. Fifty labourers were alfeltering in race. On the occasion of the visit of the
a house which was swept Into a river, lose hundreds of thousands of lives and few escaped.
and millions of yen. The longer our will sall on the Europa on Friday King and Queen to Canada next year, the Royal Air Force is to try a non-
NEW FRENCHI The disaster occurred on the main enemy fights the weaker she becomes.
AMBASSADOR stop flight from London to Vancouver, according to a proppaal made by the workers exployed in the forges of road connecting the two, sides of the On the other hand the longer we * prolonged volcanic action, as the
The special nature of sleep
Berchtesgaden, Nov. 22. Canadian Government to the British Deshouts Fourneauz of Denainanzin, Island, and is believed to be due to a fight, the stronger we become.
and octupled Air Ministry.
have gone on strike
The new French Ambassador to The distance is 0,400 nautical the works in sympathy with strikers, mountain-sides, which are among the war demands long-term co-operation
Icss than
but cracked with a loud Communists. All of China's 400, Berlin, M. Robert Coulondre, was miles, or 800 miles
record long-distance world
flight gun factory.
to for each time the landslides storied. 000,000 have united to guarantee received to-day by Herr Adolf Hitler, Mobile guards are preparing
waited, in eventual victory and prolonged re-i who presented his credentials and letters of recall of his predecessor, Hundreds of relatives from Egypt to Australin recently
M. Francols Poncet. established by RAF, flers-Trans-clear the factories of the strikers.-
pouring rain all night to identify ristance.
It is expected that the ship will Router.
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD Ocean.
bodies laid out in a row on the road-
M. Coulondre was met at Berchtes-
5 p.m., with Dr. Bauergarten, who is a dis- side.--Reuter.
Characteristics of the present-day
the $200,000 worth German Chancellory, and
of atores and tinguished Austrian specialist, now a
his 130 BELIEVED DEAD
offered
services. war situation The war is proceed-geden station by Dr. Meisner, chief reach Canton before
Innolzer WEI a transitional period, of the
treated in the doctor's hospital in Protocol, who drove him to Berghof. subscribed by the Lord Mayor's Recently Cardinal It is now believed that 150 have ing through been killed as a result of the St. from the first period to the second Baron von Doernberg, chief of the clothing, a quarter of which has been refugen,
In his address to period.
Herr Hitler, the Fund in London, said: "In taking over There were two ambulances aboard Vienna. Luela landslides,
fall of Ambassador
from the a gift Though we feel that our difficulties have. Increased after the Wahan and Canton, we still have the his high office am determined to the ship,
for the Passengers aboard the Emergency Relief Council has nd- great north-west and south-west continue the work begun by my pre- Kwangchowan. Overachs Rellet As It is pointed out that the Hongkong
decessor,
to use my influence to sociation. and
included, doctors. The
and mis-vanced $130,000 to pay which is our "goners rear".
stores 'on' the Wuchang, and it in political structure is gradually be establish, lasting relations between
Germany and
France, based PIROW CANNOT
coming democratic. The Japanese
Austrian; Dr. Wagner, American: Dr. many "Both peoples had had are meeting with more dimcalles mutual confidence.
The Wuchung was logged without COMMIT EMPIRE
daily when they proceed far from the
- Cairns, American; charge by the China Navigation sea coast,, rivers and railroads. The sessions to learn to respect each Rose, British; Father Orlando, 18- the not-so-distant Christmas
two Company and free wharfagn^ was, other on the battlefields, and to realise lan, Father over-fatiguing o and. The Lambeth Walk, Palais Glide for
Guerillas are London, Nov. 22.
at the Douglas plarda motor, Canadian and other modern specialities may frativities, the Management of the have captured the imagination In Repulse Bay Hotel anpounces the questioned in the House of Conft exhausting the enemy that in the end their wars led to Father McDonald, British; town, but there certain something appearance of the popular. Dimitri moni on Mr. Oswald Pirow's visit to After the change in South China nothing. On the contrary, & common Roman Catholic Sisters,
and (Traisted abowongkong most popular Trio, whose novel and spectacular marepe, Mr. Malcolm MacDonold the antagonisms between Japan and troller, two economic systems which (Sister de la Mierloordle, and Siler Truck, densted by htesars. Dodwelle
it captures murag and dances have made them the Colons stated that Mr. Plow (was oftau-Britain, America andrane have cupplement each other, mutual recok-Step Peler 23 MB maxw etiamlay Cinder the subdued most popular entertainers during thorised to commit His Majesty's Boone dispened. An anti-Faselit nitions of heir
hhotaly within: sound; of their season at the Hongkong Hotels Government in any conversations movement in Sapital Fling had culticed individuallig Color/paar 10. Ange
Nür Work of the United Chinese Rács: both poles the den for beighbourly time simi
the who, earlier in the day, occupied the most beautiful In the West Indies between the Kuomintang and the
did slip, but
Repulse Bay Warms Up For Christmas Season
If telephone No. 27775 gives the engaged signal more frequently this week, it is probably all on account of to-night. They've had a busy time out at Repulse Bay Hotel, booking tables for the gala.
not
New York, Nov. 22.
Rescuers are working waist-deep in mud and water--Reuter.
www* of the sen, a happy Ari Camairo and his Band will with the Germ
Prisen indsats provide the music for this evening's Hauler
Government.
After supplies had been loaded all night, the Wuchang cleared from the Douglas wharf at 7 a.m. to-day on her mission of mercy to Canton,
She will be preceded up the Pearl
River by a Japanese warship.
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