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JAPANESE WAR COSTS Japan Tightens Grip On
MOUNT TO £1,000,000
Britain's Reply To A DAY
Nazi Naval Threat
LONDON, Jan. 2,
BRITAIN MAY REPLY to Germany's decision to build a great U-Boat flect by constructing a large armada of medium-sized destroyers, according to Hector C. Bywater, the well-informed Naval Correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph”.
Mr. Bywater believes that between 24 and 30 ships of this type will be ordered this year.
West River Opened To (Japanese) Shipping
CANTON, Jan. 1. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST third Power interests has now become real on the West River.
Almost every naval oflleer with war experience has urged the Admiralty to take this measure as a safeguard against the U-Boat menace.
TOKYO, JAN. 2. THE WAR IN CHINA IS NOW COSTING JAPAN £1,000,000 A DAY.
In order to continue the staggering task of financing the war with China, Japan must this year find £353,- 000,000 in excess of the ordinary Budget.
The island Empire has already spent $250,000,000 on the war that started out by being an "incident."
Yesterday, Tokyo newspapers revealed that the Ministry for Mr. Bywater points out that British the Treasury has received the destroyers completed under recent naval programmes or under construe-demand from the three fighting lion are virtually small cruisers with services for a Budget of 6,000,- tonnages 1,920 tons.
ranging from 1,090 to 000.000 yen-to be spent in He declares that the Admiralty shells and bombs for China.
now welcome a programme This huge amount--C353,000,000
would
Trade In North China
CHUNGKING, Jan. 3.
JAPANESE GOODS occupled first place in Shanghal's Imports during the last six months of 1938, according to a Shanghat report based on information from the Chinese Maritime Customs.
The total amount of Import duties collected by the Shanghai Customs in the past year was $84,910,000, of which $54,000,000 was collected during the last six months of the
year.
All the revenue collected after July 1 last year, when the Japanese took over the Customs, has been deposited in the. Japanese Yokohama Specle Bank.-Central News.
New Russo-Japanese Tension On Border
CHUNGKING COUP D'ETAT RUMOURED
A SENSATIONAL STORY of a Left Wing coup d'etat in Chungking, allegedly led by Mr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, has been reported in a "Domei" News Agency. message from Shanghai, received in Hongkong · shortly after noon to-day.
The message states that
Left Wing members of the SPANISH CIVIL WAR Kuomintang have purged the Party of pro-Wang and other
FRESH TENSION has arisen on Saghalien Island Ching-wei
as a result of a new affray.
A "Domei" message states that the new incident arose fol- lowing the shooting to death by a Soviet patrol of two Japanese huntsmen. A third Japanese is missing.
that
providing for the construction of Afly in sterling-represents an increase of patien Island, lying north of
HIT-RUN MOTORIST SOUGHT
European Victim In Hospital
Rightist elements.
Among 120 Rightist members of the Kuomintang alleged to have been taken into custody are, states the message, Chien Quo- fu and Chang Tao-fan.
BIG GAINS CLAIMED BY FRANCO
BILBAO, Jan. 2. Mr. Sun Fo is alleged to have been chosen as head of the new GoverSIVE in Catalonia made further THE INSURGENT OFFEN-
ment, which has been renamed the Chinese Soviet Goverument.
important progress on Monday, The report, which quotes Tairiku Shimpo, Japanese
the according to reports received organ here, the right flank in the published in Shanghal, claims that Tarragona district, as Dr. H. H. Kung, President of the
well as Executive Yuan, and Mr. T. V. Soong, columns in the Segre section are excluded from membership in advancing according to schedule.
new Cabinet. "Rumours, which cannot be een-
the
medium-sized destroyers of from 000 1,000,000,000 yen over the 1938 war lower portion, lying below the 50th POLICE ARE SEEKING a hug, further state that the 'die front stated that troops under the
to 1,000 tons, capable of high speed expenditure. In sterling, it represents and armed with 4-inch and 4.7-inch an Increase of £50,000,000, guns, several torpedo tubes and be-
and tween 30 40 depth charges.
to Japan's
餞
It is officially announced in Tokyo strong protesis have been lodged with the Soviet Government leged acts of violence committed by against three definite easca of al- Soviet frontier
Patrols on Saghalien. proper, comprises an arca up-
meridion was ceded to Japan by the proximately 30,000 square miles. The
Treaty of Portsmouth after
and-run motorist as the result The of an Russo-Japanese War of 1904.
Rccident involving According
communique European. issued by the Japanese Government The increase has been necessitated, two Japanese subjects
Mr. N. Bull, second engineer says Japanese apologists, "in view of napped on
were kid- November 22 on the of the steamer Kwangtung, was Japan possess between them a total dan's proposed establishment of a Soviet-Japanese faticated by the
the victim. which necessitates
In reply to
lest the replenishment of Japanese Foreign Office the Soviet materials to be consumed as well as authorities pointed out that the two the long-term stationing of Japanese Japanese were in possession of arms. troops in China."
Soviet frontier patrols shot them dead and buried their bodies, the Soviet reply revealed.
points
"Of Great Britain's existing fleet of
78 destroyers, many are obsolete," Mr. Bywater points
out
He adds that Germany, Italy and
of 201 submarines.
According to a recent American despatch.
Nazi Germany has, twenty years after the surrender of her great fleet at Seapa Flow, swept aside the naval restrictions Imposed by the Treaty of Ver- sallies.
This is in addition ordinary budget.
new order in
Tokyo newspapers predict that the special budget will be raised by the Issuance of public bonds to the amount of 3,000,000,000 yen (£204, 000.000), the largest loan Japan has ever attempted to raise.
The Japanese, who refuse passage to foreign merchant shipping on the grounds that
This Treaty Imited Germany to guerilla activity makes the river six 10,000-ton battleships, six light unsafe for shipping, have them-cruisers, 13 destroyers and 12 torpedo selves commenced a service be- boats. tween Canton and Macao,
Especially, the treaty ban on sub- They have chosen a novel method marines no longer restricts Germany, Japanese War is still in progress, the At the end of this year, if the Sino- which now has in undersea craft a total cost to Japan will be of dissuading Chinese from leaving weapon potentially as dangerous as than £000,000,000. Canton and of persuading refugees to were the U-Boats in 1914-18. return to the city.
Cerman naval treaty was signed the Great War of 1914-18-Reuter It easily exceeds the cost of any un Anglo- war in history with the exception of pledging Germany to limit its naval and Domei, It is reported here that the Japan-strength to 35 per cent. of Britain's ese naval authorities offered to coin- a similar service, operated menco under
The outward fare to Canton is 20
But the inward
fare froin Macao to Canton it only twenty cental.
"the
Sun.
between
Rising
was releeled by the
Germany began arming openly in 1935. That sure year
Nuvy.
It is believed that Herr Hitler to- day could parade over 150 vessels.-United Press.
Canton and Hongkong.
The offer wa British authorities when the Japan- ese declined to open the river to simultaneous navigation by foreign shipping, according to these reports, as
It is evident that many Chinese are returning to Canton overland. The majority are coming in vin Shekkl.) which is still connected with Macao by motor-bus.
ara
are
old
War
WARPLANE FLEETS
Washington, Jan. 1. Italy and Germany had six times many warplanes as Britain and
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250,000 GUERILLAS IN DRIVE
CABINET RE-SHUFFLE BELIEVED NEAR
more
te
.
He was knocked down by a car in Salisbury Road, ucar the Ferry wharf in Kowloon, early
Star un Sunday morning,
The driver of the car immediately accelerated and disappeared.
The victim Is now in Kowloon
The Japanese communique out that the two were only equipped with hunting guns and were engaged ispital, suffering from a fractured in bunting inside Japanese territory. Another case of illegal attack by
on
leg.
Any witnesses of the incident are munique which announces that the Soviets is curged in the com-asked to communicate with the police. October
23, another Japanese sudden ly disappeared near Asase. Search for
the missing man is being con-
victims, tinued, but it is believed thul he suffered the same fate as the previous
The third incident revealed in the communique took place on December 30 when a Soviel aeroplane bearing markings of the Red Star on both wings crossed the frontier, and keep- A re-shume of the Japanese Ing an altitude of 300 metres, Cabinet is believed to be imminent, cireled Tatsuko, in Japanese territory, according to a "Trans-Ocean" mess-for about six minutes before it flew age,
back into Soviet territory-Domel,
place
Numerous conversations have taken recently between leading political personalities. These con- versations will, it is belleved, be re- sumed this week.
Ministers who have chießy part- elpated in the conversations included, In addition those in charge of the various defence departments, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Education and the Minister of Social Welfare.
It la believed significant that the Minister of the Interior was not a participant.
Franco-Syrian Tension
en-
sidered null and void. Trans-Ocean. JAPAN AT CROSS-ROADS
ECONOMIC
Latest reports from the Tarragona cominand of General Solchaga have penetrated to within 31⁄2 miles of the the highway town of Falset on between Mora De Ebro and Tarra- villages of Vilella Alta and Vilella gona, having occupied en route the the Baja.
Including Chen Cheng. Sun Fo and Yu Yu-jen, are tightening their control of the Nationalist front the Domei message concludes.
No other news agency carries re- ports of a
reorganisation of Chinese Government.
It is notable that the report, it
Falset is now within range of the
true, would be a serious, blow to Insurgent artillery, Japan, indicating as it does a solidarity of the group opposed Wang Ching-WO.
New Year's Eve Wedding Unites Macao Couple
BOYCOTT AT daughter of Lieut.
DJIBOUTI
and
Cavalry was active to-day in mop- 10ping up a region on the left bank of the Ebro between Vinndre and Garcia.
In the northern sector, troops of General Moscardo and General' Munoz Grunde are advancing to gether on the highway between Benavent and Artesa De Segre, but progress is retarded by the severe. cold and snow.
An Insurgent column, advancing from Granadella towards the East, have occupied the town of Juncosa, to about 10-kilometres east of Grana-
Macao, Dec. 31. A wedding of much interest social circles in Macan took place in della. the Church of St. Lawrence this The successes of the past ten days morning when Mics Beatriz Ramalho, as recorded in the territory occupied Mme. J. and the prisoners taken wero ru- Ramalho, was ulted in marriage to vealed here to-day. Since the Fri- Dr. Cassiano Fonseca. Rev. Er. M. day before Christmas, 1,050 square Teixeira officiated at the ceremony.
miles of Calatonian territory have The bride,
fallen into the hands of the Insurgent, came who
from rut
about 1,000 of these lying in the Portugal two year
ago after com- Lerida sector. Forty Catalan villages Parls, Jan. 2. A boycott campaign against the University, is an able educationalls! have also been captured. The total pleting her course in the Coimbra
in Lerida and Tarragona provinces economic life of Djibouti appears to in the Macao Lyceum, while be taking shape there, according to Fonseca is very popular medical 10,200, and the Loyalist air forces number of prisoners is estimated at despatches received here from that practitioner in Macao.
2
losses are suid to be 79 planes.-- on Trans-Ocean.
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LATEST
Air Mail On Schedule
Imperial Airways Delia expected with a rose. Their bouquets were of
on schedule at Kal Tak 5 p.m. to- orange blossom. The bride's mother, morrow with U.K. and Australian Mrs. Romalho, and the bride's aunt, Mrs.
D. S. Alves, chose plain black malls.
crepe with bats to match. Mr. Mario Ribeiro
performed the duties of best man, and Mr. Luiz G. Alves sup.
Club
CHARGED WITH the fraudu- ported the bride.
lent conversion of a draft for A reception of the Macno US$6,204.92, the property of the followed the ceremony. Dr. and Mrs. Fonseca are spending their honey- clark employed by the Hongkong|respondent. office of the Ministry WAB
Chinese Ministry of Finance, a moon in Hongkong-Our Own Cor-
port to-day.
The bride entered the church Forwarding agents have received her father's arm, and made a beauti- Instructions to forward rapidly all ful picture in her Empire gown of Italian goods to Abyssinia,
white lizard skin. Charming de Comparatively few of the Chinese
Meanwhile the Italian Consul-tails were the epaulette shoulders and are of the middle or upper classes,
Paris, Jan. 2. General has left Djibouti for Rome closely-fitting pointed bodice. From The Sunday meeting of the Syrian and Arst-class merchants are still
The population in Djibouti is calm. veil cascaded the full length of her Chamber, which, after the announce-
n coronet of tulle, her embroidered conspicuous by their absence. Most
ment by Premier Ojemil Mardam Bey
According to Frenchs reports, some of the better-class shops in Canton
that the French Government rejecta rinia, where the economic life of the Chrysanthemums
effervescence is apparent in Abya-sweeping train. She carried white still closed, their windowg
the Franco-Syrian treaty, adopted a country has slowed down owing to fern.
will maiden-hair shuttered and their doors barred.
number of resolutions referring The Ol Kwan Hotel, Canton's 14-
Franco-Syrları
to the lack of money, and the country. relations,
The bridesmaids were the Misses storey
aroused apart from the big centres, remains Maria H. Ribeiro and Angela do A QUARTER OF A MILLION skyscraper which escaped
great Interest in French political unsubdued-Reuter. destruction during the Great Fire, guerillas, equipped with modern
It is also observed that, during the
circles.
Rosario, the former in blue, the latter has re-opened. The fifth floor of the arms and supplies, are
The resolutions passed by the hotel, favourite look-out for Ameri- operating along the Yangtsen in conversation with the Keeper ratified by the Syrian Chamber on now past few days, the President of the Syrian Chamber emphasise that Syria
In pink. Pretty vells hung from their ean and other news-reel camera-men River between Shanghai and or Privy Seal, who acts as the re- December 20, and that all commit-
Privy Council, Baron Hirenuina, has adheres to the text of
heads, which were ornamented each the treaty, during the Japanese air raids in pre- occupation days, has been taken over Nanking, according to informa-presentative of the Crown. In adul-ments resulting from the agreement by the Japanese milltary authorities. tion received in Chungking from tion, Baron Hironuma has conversed or additional clauses which have not
The three lower floors have been military sources. thrown open to the publle, the
with the Premier, Prince Konoye, been subraitted to the Syrian Cham- tariff sull applying.
The guerillas are in complete con-
and with other members of the ber for ratification, are to be con- trol of the Yangtse valley with the Cabinet. The White House Hotel on Talping exception of Woosung, Kinngyin,! Maloo hus, it is alleged, become the Nanking and a few other strategic) Canton branch of the Matsubara points where Japanese garrisons are Hotel of Hongkong, and it is filled maintained. with Japanese.
The Japanese are able to maintain communications between their gar- along the river. Highways out of reach of the Japanese naval guns are "Unless the still-rampant anti-Japanese agencies under the controlled by the guerilla.
Chinese officials who have accepted Chiang Kai-shek regime in China are totally destroyed the ulti- Blizzard Dislocates "governments" have, in most cases,
office under the pro-Japanese mate objective of the China Incident will not be attained." withdrawn to the sanctuary afforded yesterday by the Japanese Foreign East Anin
This admission was made in Tokyo, the tense atmosphere prevailing in by Shanghai.
Those who remain at Nanking and Minister, Mr. K. Arita, in the course With Japon faced by threatening of a New Year message to the people circumstances, General Itagaki urged other centres are in constant Tokyo, Jan. 1.
danger The heavy snow storm which has of retribution in the event of guerillas of Japan.
greater efforts by the Japanese pea- hit northern Japan has resulted in overwhelming the Japanese garrisons, The Foreign Minister stressed the Ple in order to meet all possible con- holding up the railway schedule.
According to latest Information, necessity of making further efforts
tingencies. In the Nilgata and Ishikawa Pre- the guerillos have met with such auc- to see that conditions in China were "Japan at the present moment fectures, which were worst hit by cess that they are now in possession properly understood by Third Powers. stands at a momentous cross-F04%== the blizzard, 51 rallway lines hadi Yu Hua Tal, on the southern out- been virtually suspended
He regretted that some Third skirts of Nanking.
whether she shall rise or fall. Powers were, for various reasons, Saturday, when they were restored Repeated porties have been made pursuing policies of assisting the Cen-ther she will succeed or fall in the "The situation is grave, and whe- to normal running..
by bands of guerillas, who have on tral Government, According to a message from several occasions succeeded in reach-
present campaign depends entirely on General 8. Itagaki, the Minister for the spirit and vigour of the nation," Tauruga, the port for the Japan- ing the city gates.
War, in a New Your message, issued the War Minister declared,
Chungking Jan. 2. Manchoukuo ferry-boat service, sall As a result of the proximity of the warning to Third Powers,
Another group of 320 Jews have ings have been temporarily suspend-Irregulars, Japanese troops do not pointed out that expansion by "a cerpeals to the Japanese people to The total number of Jews who have :and The Premier, Prince Konoye, ap-arrived in Shanghal from Austria, ed The Harbin Maru, scheduled to venture from the confines of the city lain sail on Sunday, put off her departure unless they are in large numbers, Soviet Russia) of armament supplies various fields of national life to a Shanghai dispatch.--Central Third Power(presumably tolerate all possible hardships in the recently arrived is 1,100, according unill Monday--Domel, vis
'covered by mechanised unita.
in the Far East added considerably to: Domel.
News
Many rooms in the New Asin Horisons only by the use of naval craft Ministers Admit Situation's Gravity
have also been commandeered Japanese.-Our Own Correspondent,
Northern Japan
up
brought before Mr. T. J. Houston
at the Central Magistracy this
morning.
The cleric was Hau Chlen, aged 48. He was remanded for 72 hours on the application of Det. Inspr. A. S. L. Hopkins,
Ball was allowed in the sum of $35,000.
Mr. P. H. Sin is appearing for the defendant.
Jews Still Flock To Shanghai
Seo Back Page For Further Late News
INDIAN IS REBUKED "Harsh, Unconscionable, 'Said Judge
An Indian money-leader was described as "harsh and un- conscionable" In the Bankruptcy Court by Mr. Justice Lindsell this morning.
Directing the Oncial Receiver, Mr.j
L. B. Andrewes, to reject proof of a 158 of the tules made under the This is an application under No. debt for 43,000.00 fled by Kartar Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931, by the Singh against Archibald Hynes Ro- Omcial Receiver acting as the trustee berts, Mr. Justle Lindsell said that it in the bankruptcy of ano Archibald was an attempt to squeeze the debtor Hynes Roberts, who was adjudged dry.
bankrupt in 1036,
asking
for The application for authority to authority to reject the proof reject the proof was made by the Om with him, in August, 1038, br bankruptcy of Roberts, formerly of which was based on four judgmenta cial Receiver in connection with the Kartar Singh of a debt for $3,600.60 the Victoria Printing Press
of this Court in Le Summary Juris In his judgment, Mr. Justice Lind-diction given by consent in XĂNG, INC. woll said:
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