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END CHINA WARFARE. Date of Termination of 'Incident'
Australia To Admit Refugees
15,000 German Jows For Antipodes CANBERRA, Dec. 1. THE COMMON WEALTH MINISTER for the Interior announced in the House of Representa- tives to-day that Australia is prepared to admit 15,000 from Jewish immigrants Germany during the three years.
next
This number, said the Minis-) ter, was the highest possible, under existing circumstances, and could not be exceeded with- out adversely affecting condi- tions of employment and
the standard of life in Australia.
The Minister added that pre-j ference would be given to Jews capable of developing industr.al activity in the Commonwealth.
The Minister's utterances found the approval of the Labour opposition leader, Mr. Curtin,
A Bill, compelling all foreigners in Australia to report themszives to the police authorities hus incanwhile been introduced in the Senate.. Trans-Ocean.
JEWS LEAVE FOR ENGLAND
Berlin, Dec. 1. The first contingent of 200 Jewish children to-day entrainext for Hol- land on route to England, carrying with them each one mark and their! pockets full of "buterbrot," together. (Continued on Page 4.)
Italian Paper Casts Back Half Century
French Insult
"SO THIS IS HONGKONG?" asks one of the China poules which disembarked yesterday from the stenmer Kwanglung, specially chartered to bring them from the north. A total of 98 penies were landed.
Determination to Fight in China
LONDON, Dec. 1.
Will Be Fixed Shortly
THE TOKYO GOVERNMENT may shortly terminate the "China Incident," as the Sino-Japanese. War is called in Japan.
sion
of
By "termination" is ap- parently meant the suspen- all military operations and a period of consolidation.
Prince Konoye, the Premier, has promised the Privy Council to obtain Imperial Sanction for tue date of termination, which will be fixed by the Government, according to a copyright "Domei” sage.
mes-
The Japanese Premier, in announcing the radical change In Japanese policy, pointed out the difficulty in sett.ing the War
Italy Joins
1938
DUN LOP
SOYEARS OF GROWTH
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2,000 Toeth
Naval Pact Chinese Man
With U.K.
LONDON, Dec. 1.
THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION,” by which Italy signifies her adhesion to Sho London Naval Treaty of 1936, will be signed at the Foreign Office here on Friday by the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Montague Scott and the Italian Ambassador, Count Grandi, thereby conforming to the Anglo-Italian agreement which came into force on November IG last.
I will be recalled that nt- the gh Italy sent an "observer" to (a negotiations in view of this gaval agreement of 1930, the fubsequently declined to participate In it owing lo unctions being taken by tho League of Nallons in connection. with the Abyssinian war,
It is further stated that negotiations between England and the Scandinavian Biates for a naval agreement are about lo be concluded.—Trans-Ocean.
Of
Mystery
In Arms Case
LONDON, Dec. 1.
"THIS CHINESE MAN of mystery was how Mr. G. C. L. du Cann referred to Mr. Chou Tin-shu during the resumed hearing of the China arms cargo trial to-day.
Three men-Frederick Willing, aged 50, metal merchant, of Tavistock-court, Tavistock-square; his son, James Oll Herbert Willing, aged 24, metal merchant, of Dorset House, N.W.; and Dennis Michael Corrigan, aged' 46, agent of Park-lane, W.-are charged with conspiring
Germany Adopts Balloon Barrage for Defence
BERLIN, Dec. 1. FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE set by England, balloon barrages have now been introduced in Germany.
with Chou Tin Shu and others unknown to 'cheat and defraud M. Theodore Laffitte of £7,250, obtaining the money by false pre- tences, and attempting to obtain a further £4,000.
The case for the pros.cution was that the three put forward Chou Tin Shu as an important oniclal at the and head of a Cainese commis3.en for
Cainese Embassy in London
buying arms in Europe.
of
M. Lathie agreca to buy 30 It is announced that the first barrage has been establish-machine guns and 500,000 rounds ed around the gig:ntic Leuna works at Haile, for the works, ammunition, and he paid £7,250. with their 16 immense chimneys would offer a particularly When the goods arrived at Marsellies, favourable objective to enemy aircraft.
instead of guns and ammumuon the
syres.
paris and
According to reliable information the eficiency of this bar-cases were found to contain brick, rage was proved during attacking manoeuvres recently carried rubble, and old motor out by several bombing squadrons which showed conclusively that the Leuna works would be adequately protected in the event of war.
**LEADED PRIVILEGE" Repriseniat.ves of a fum of ship- AD UKIUJAREZ, tis, recalca
The Leuna works are mainly concerned with the produc- tion of nitrogen and with the hydrogenation of coal-trans.stated that the firm thought it was Occan.
DECLARE
"HOLY WAR,"
rapidly with only a military NEW ARAB
force,
Unlike the Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 and the Russo- Japanese War of 1904-05, the current "China" Incident" pre- sented a vastly different prob. lem, he said.
"The China Incident' wili
be
DEMAND
BEIRUT. Dec. 1.
A. DEMAND THAT all the island should declare a
terminated through a chronic pro- holy war against England
Prince Konoye declared.
CESS
"It will be considered terminated
when hostilities have ceased
was voiced by several and Deputies of the Syrian
when peace and order have returned. Parliament when they
"If the Chinese National Govern-
ment will disband and rally under urged co-operation with the the banner of the new regime in Pan-Arabic Congress for thing. hostilities will quickly
"the Premier is reported this nurnose to-dev.
The old familiar $ sign has dis- the
been re-
to have indicated that there ed for her measures in Pales-President linera and has
terminate,"
Prince would be no
no objections to Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-shek participat-
"I DID NOT meet a single Chinese man or woman, old or young, who was not absolutely convinced that China must win the war in the end,” said Mrs. Haldane, wife of Professor J. B. Haldane, in an interview withing in the new regime. M. Georges Bonnet, the French "Reuter" on her return to London to-day from Foreign Minister received today weeks intensive tour of Canton, Changsha, Hankow,
Paris, Dec. 1.
Ambassador, Signor Guariglia
In connection with yesterday's anti-Chungking and the intervening districts.
French demonstration in the Chamber,
interview.
England was violently attack-appeared from the funnels of
ting.
placed by the insígnís shown above. The newspaper Algo Aluom the line is now controlled by the He considered, however, that the renarts additional news of heavy the President Monroe, which arrived American President Company and complicated organisation and circum- a six-stances of the Chinese National Goy-lighting in the Nablus hills, de- yesterday, was the first ship to com-
crnment, with Communists and Na-claring that Arab women are mence the new schedule. tional Party members included with participating. in its fold, would render it impossi-
terms.
According to the paper British
ble for Generalissimo Chiang Kal- troops were caught between two lines rhek and his Government to accept of fire, and before they could extrl- the Japanese
ente themselves, 37 were killed and An earlier "Trans-Ocean" mes 00 severely wounded. sago foresees the possibilities of far-reaching developments as a re- sult of Prince Konoye's inexpected declaration.
MAY BE THIS IS WHY!
Mrs. Haldane said that the Route Army, a New Fourth Route The meeting was arranged at M. Japanese were intensely eager Army was recently created and had Bonnet's request.
Oncial circles are silent about the for peace, and kept making over-lood that it had now been sent to Nanchang as Its base, but she under- tures to the Chinese Government Kwangtung to partake in operations A Rome message says that further through various foreign inter-around Canton. light is shed by the newspaper; mediaries. Tribuna on the reasons behind the
In Honan, Anhui and Shantung, demonstration in the Chamber.
"After the fall of Canton they be there was an organisation of 000,000 The paper says that Count Ciano's loved that China was finished, and purely volunteers, which had been statement on the "natural aspirations made a positive pence offer, but it built up and divided into groups of of the Italian people" is explicit. slipuinted that Chiang Kai-shek must 20,000 to 30,000, mostly armed with The French occupation of Tunis in be expelled from the Government and grenades which they mudo 1881 was, in methods, and the pre- and that the Communists must be themselves, and with arms captured
TOKYO, Dec. 1. cedents it created, and in lack of
This the Chinese re- from Japanese convoya.
The 1939-40 facal budget for suppressed. consideration for previous Italian Jected contemptuously,
Japen is 3,694,000.000 yen, rights in the territory, a grave insultį Mrs. Haldane said the which succeeding generations always!orranisation had been
which is an increase of remembered,
'expanded, and in this connection the assisted by the fact that every 184,000,000 yen over the current The Inruils must be repaired if Communists were doing remarkable Chinese peasant, and oven children, year. Italian friendship is desired-Reuter, work. In addition to the Eighth were ardently assisting them with
ALL AID SOLDIERS guerina amazingly Their operationa were greatly
Recruits Sought for New Chinese Student Army
SHANGHAI, Dec. 2.
food and Information.
Mrs. Haldane drew a harrowing picture of the sufferings of the wounded and the pitiful inadequacy of medical equipment.
|
Ten
Navy 653,000,000 yen Army 495,000,000 yen
Foreign Affairs 55,000,000 yen Home Affairs 291,000,000 yen Department of Justice 52,000,000
Education 155,000,000 yen Agriculture 144,900,080 yea Communications 278,000,000 Finance Ministry, 1,306,000,000
Th» Chlua War budget will be 280,609,000 yen.
It is reported that the Arabs also capturee quunuties of war material! In the course of this clash three planes are also reported to have been hot down, and four lorries and one tank destroyed!
Severe fighting is also sold to have taken pace near Jerusalem.-Trans- Ocean.
ARAD
DELEGATION
Cairo, Dec. i. Agreement would appear to have been reached in author.atve Albu quarters · regarding the composition višine Aroo uewadon to was round
26 DIE IN UTAH BUS COLLISION
High-School Students Killed In Tragedy
SALT LAKE CITY,
Dec. 1.
A BUS CARRYING, it is esti-
table conference in Lendon concern- mated, 40 high-school students ing Palestine, although the question collided with a fast freight train as to whether the british Govern at a railway crossing to-day, at ment proposals will, the opin.on
of the Arabs, form an adequate basit least 19 students being killed and for discussion, sitli remains open. over 20 injured.
Should these proposals be accep-
The Denver-Rio Grande rallway tabic, it is believed that the following division office reported that 20 had
ersonalities will be selected ta represent the Palestinian Arabs at been killed, the conference:
She said: "I visited a field hospital where rows of soldiers, mostly caked in mud from head to foot, and often hideously maimed, were lying on the floor, with only one doctor, who was working the clock round, present.
The accident occurred during poor Mussa Effendi Alami, who fa now viiblity, the bus atarting to cross A "STUDENT ARMY" of our and a half divisions of men is
was impossible aven to cope with half the coses.
ilving in London, and who would the railway track without realizing
· being formed by the Chinesɔ high command, it is reported.
be the personal delegate of the that the train was near.-United "The Chinese capacity for uncom The revenue anticipated i Grand Mutu, Auni Bey Abdul Hadin, Presi. Instructions have already been assumed the title of Commander-in-lainingly enduring vain is incredible, follows: ordinary, 2.370,000,000 yen, who la now in Cairo, Jamal Effendi sent to all Chinese univerities and Chief of the new army," and the und even little girls bear their wounds extraordinary 1,320,000,000 yen, while Hussein, who is a nephew of the schools, and tha"neadquar/Fra_bf-ine Minister of EducaKon and "another sha meliha
Willahol expenditure is estimated to be or
A Router message says that 20 Grand Mutti and also in exile, Izzeß chlidren were killed and 12 injured. army, are said to be in Chengtu, in|h'ith educational official will act as Mrs. Haldane is now \specially dinary 1,950,000,000 yen and extra- Tanous, who is chairman of the in the crash. the Brechten province,
| officers under his commond.---Trans-] devour
ww ordinary 1,720,000,000 yen-United | Arab Centrul Committee in London, sent to hospital in a serious condi
The injured have been Maritat Chang Kal-sbek' has Ocran.
(Continued on Page 43
Prent.
(Continued on Page 4.)
tion.
westadig, Wacht de cadeas misy Mi London and "would have to bry their commands."
During in.s morning's evidence,
Mr. Pairy Munsay, un uude.al of the Foreign lice, said tho. ht anme 51 Mr. Chou Tin-shu hau never blen bmitted to the Foreign Chica as an atlet f the Chinese Enassy.
Mr. E. Clayton, for the prosecu- cun, toid the Cours ne da non- Lend
caltini
evidence from the Chinese Einbassy,
"I suppose they have pleaded pri- vilege to that they w.u not have to (Continued on Page 4.)
LATE NEWS
CROSSING CRASH TOLL 24
Salt Lake City, Deo. 1. The death toll in the railway cros- sing crach when a bus carrying askool-children collided with a freighi trału to-day, now amonuita in il United Press.