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Airliner Crashes
Monday
HONGKỎNG TELEGRAPH
January 9, 1939.
BITTER FIGHTING ON TWO
Here is the wreck of the Itxurious United Air Lines transport plane being altered to pleces by the surf at the foot of a cliff near San Francisco. Pilot Charles Steal and Isadore R. Edristein. a posseterr, were rescued but five others perished in the surf. A maze of radio signals, which con- fused the pilot, was blamed.
Mystery of the reported mar- riage of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bri- Aish Faucht chief, and Mrs. Diana Guinness, above, was cleared re- cently when Mosley announced in London that they were married two years ago and that his wife She recently gave birth to a ron,
is a sister of Unity Freeman- Milford, Hitler admirer, recently mobbed in Lendon.
JAPANESE
STATION CLOSED IN S'HAI
Strong British Action
Brings Protest
THE GREAT CHINA TRADE ISSUE
IF
London.
the British Government is to be moved at all over China it will be over the trade issue. This alone can shake it out of its rather casy going attitude.
The Home papers are devoting more and more atten- tion to the issue. The "Daily Herald" recently published the following:-
Economic reprisals against Japan for her freezing out of foreign trade interests from China are being seriously considered in London and Washington.
Reports from the Ambasadors of dor-head of the native staff-was the two countries in China have in-appointed. dicated for some time that Japan is-
SHIPS BARRED Foreign shipping, for example, has been barred from using the Yangtse.
It is believed that the new com-
WAR FRONTS
SARAGOSSA Jan. 8.
THE INSURGENT OFFENSIVE in Catalonia was carried forward on Saturday, according to the testimony of war correspondents with the Insurgent troops.
In the northern sector, the Insurgents attacked a few miles south of Artesa de Segre, which is situated to the south-east of Galageur, and captured several strategically important positions in the valley of the. river Sio.
At the same time, the 90 miles from the Portugueze southern army corps, marching frontier..
The capture of Fuenteo Venjunn along the road from Lerida toit is also claimed, has cut the Insur- Borjas Blancas and Tarragona, gents' road and rail communicationa pushed forward to within ten with the famous Penarroya mines, miles of Mont Blanch, thus which are said to be half encircled.
A further message says that the crossing, for the first time. the Loyalists have captured the towns border of the Tarragona of Granja and Detorre Hermosa In province.
the Badājuz province, as well as La villages In an Coronada and tour
#dvance during the important Estremadura offensive.
While this army was passing Sierra de Montsant from the north, the Insurgent Ebro army, on Saturday again entered into action for the first the time since the opening of Catatonian offensive.
A
DEFENCES COLLAPSE
messake
Say6 San Sebastian that as was to be expected from the development of the Insurgent offen- sive, the simultaneous advance in the north
and south bus led to a collapse
defences of the Loyalist defen
ces in the centre between Lerida and Balageur.
From the bridge-head at Balageur, the Insurgents on Saturday advanced
Meanwhile, according to a Sarra- gossa mesange the Insurgents have occupled Vilanova de Predes, about 19 miles from the Mediterranean, and 24 miles from Tarragona-Reuter.
TROOPS CROSS SEGRE
Saragossa, Jan, 8.
Most of the 300,000 troops flung by General Franco again. Catalonia have now crossed the Sestre River, which, over the greater part of a 100-mile front, in the Loyalists' main natural defence.
Divisions of the Aragon army corps which in the early morning! in the district of the Segre Canal, fled across bridges thrown over the captured the villages of Bellcaire, river above Lerida, are now joning Bellmunt, Dutsent and Ventoses, and from the Balageur bridge head, and by dint of frontal and flanking are overruming the farm-studded pressure, compelled the Loyalists to countryside,
Vellaneuva and Acotelge, two of retreat.
Meanwhile an attack on the road the few remaining Loyalist strong- captured junction at Agramut is proceeding holds were stormed and simultaneously from the west and after heavy bombardiment north-west, and the Insurgents are advance, which, by to-night, carried
a
now only a few miles from that town. the corps 12 miles east of Dalagaur. A strong concentration of Loyalist The Insurgents are now advancing troops in the centre manifestly only to the west, and straightening up served the purpose of enabling the the Ene between Artesa and Borjas defence lines to withdraw on the base Blancas, the Loyalists beating
At the
same retreat along the Lerida-Tarragona Tarrega-Cervera. time, however, the Loyalists caused road under gunfire.
AlthBugh for: neralsts in considerable damage in all of the
the sectors, there is good evacuated villages, whose inhabitants northern
weather elsewhere on the front. Renter. they took with them in the retreat.
LOYALIST COUNTER-CLAIMS According to a Barcelona message,į issued thel deliberately destroying all foreign pany is one of the branches of the the Defence Ministry
newly formed Japanese "Central following wer bulletin on Saturday! trade competition.
China Development Company," whose night: Estremadura Front. Loyalist charter includes shipping, communi- tro continued their victorious ad-
troops cations, waterworks,
ond
power vance on Saturday After crossingt companies, public transport, fisi cries the river
Zujar.
they occupied the Two British firms,
continued their march in the direc- son and Co., and Butterflcid and
Bintern
tion of Monterubio de la Serena. Swire,
at present represent the On the
the right bank of the river, the largest
the shipping interests on
Loyalists captured the village of Yangtse River and the China cost. Cuenca, the heights of Grana Loma
In recent incaths they have suffer de
The Japanese say this is due to the and inland transp Jardine Mathe-age of Perateda de Zaucego, and!
danger of mines and nearby military operations, but Japanese ships have been plying a thriving trade.
was announced that a Japanese sponsored "monopoly" company bas been established in Shanghal to con- trol the Yangise shipping, and willed considerably from the closing of the Nadagrulla, as well as the Height start work in, the New Year.
the Yangise and coastal dimeuities 686, Sierra Mejano, and several of the neighbouring heights, together with
This is only one of countless ways ed under a monopolistic system they
if the Yangtse were to be exploit the village of Fuente Verusa. in which foreign interests, British
would lose business on and American, in particular, being ouster from the China market, scale."
EXPERTS AT WORK
arc wo
For soine time experts of the United States Department of Cum- merce and the Board of Trade here have been studying what retaliatory steps could be taken.
large
All the other papers roughly agree that joint action is being discussed. This is the "Daily Express."
as
Child' Door Bangers' Cured
HILDREN who hang doors, spik, and shout deflance at their parents need trouble British homes no more.
that
The advance continues.
Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld, of Lon- The Loyalists
repulsed several
don, has established a Child Centre enemy counter-attacks.
at the Institute of Child Psychology, Territory conquered by the
workers where specially-trained Loyalists within the last three days play with delinquent children. has extended over 800 kilometres.
There are playrooms for children well BRITAIN MAY HIT BACK AT Much war material, as
JAPAN
numerous pelsoners fell into their of different ages. Colour of rooms and contents are directed to a special; "Britain may hit back at Japan hands. for her trade methods by putting
On the Eastern front, in the section corrective function. Their investigations are now so far heavier duties on Japanese
Cubella, the Loyalists offered Foods of advanced that Mr. Joseph Kennedy going into British Colonies. This is herole resistance to Insurgent attacks, the United States Ambassador here, one of the steps under consideration The heights of Masbell were three has gone to Washington
and of as a result of Japan's action in try- times occupled by the Insurgents, but United States Ambassador in Chinging to close the China and Manchu they were finally repulsed. has been recalled for consultation.
kuo markets to British and all other Significantly, too, Sir
Ronald foreign trade. British Ambassador in
The "News Chronicle" contains the has arrived in London
following:
GROWING JAPANESE MENACE TO TRADE-BY VERNON BARTLETT "Although by
SHANGHAI, Jan. 8. ACCORDING ΤΟ the Japanese press, the British Lindsay,
und
ther
military action in closing on the Japanese-sponsored One step envisaged in American Greater Shanghai Munici- benefits under the most-favoured- pality police station Great Western
the
more
In the sectors of Vinaixa and Vilo- sell, severe fighting is in progress. Loyalist troops are offering stubborn resistance, and the Insurgents have suffered heavy losses.
PREMIER'S MESSAGE
torn in pieces, mud was thrown co is doubtful whether such drastic, excluding their compatriots from the possible.
at # photograph of Prince Konoye, and a Chinese police man was beaten.
in
a
The "mess room" is exactly It is not for caling, but for "messing about." Its walls and floors are of pale blue colour # washable material. Clay, earth, paints, muil, can alt be "messed" with to the heart's content,
It is sister to the "water room," where the children play, dressed in mackintoshes, rubber shoes, and oil- skin caps.
Dr. Lowenfeld reports that by "free world" of giving children a
temperamental
own their
Here is the wreck of the luxurious Unlted Air Lines trans- port plane being battered to pieces by the surf at the foot of Pilot clift near San Francisco. Charles Stead and Isadore R. Edelstein, a passenger, were res- cued but five others perished in the surt. A maze of radio signals, which confused the pilot, was blamed.
£500 Award In Horoscope General Franco's major offensive Libel Case
circles is to deprive Japan of her
A Paris communication says that insidious the Spanish Loyalist Premier, Dr. ination clause. Were such a step to
proclamation on their be taken, the British Government methods than those adopted by Ger- Negrin, Issued Road last would almost certainly fellow suit, many and Italy in Europe, Japan is Saturday to the Loyalist Army, in twists are corrected.
"I expect from all, Thursday is "assuming President Roosevelt also has the very actively menacing British inter- which he said:
effective co-operation for the defence very serious
power, if discrimination against the ests in the Far East. proportions. importation sale of American Last week the Foreign Minister of our soil, as has hitherto been the Japanese investigations
show
is goods
to exclude "any or la proved,
Tokyo summoned the British and case, and I am certain that the en- from that the five-barred flag was all articles"
thusiasm and spirit of sacrifice of our States
Ambassadors offending United
andi emphasised his policy of gradually troops will render a rapid victory At the present moment of severe trial, the heroism with which are yet contemplated, but the economic life of the Far East. question of increasing duties on There was not, I am assured, that our army is holding up the enemy on Japanese importa Is one that has direct threat to denounce the Wash the Eastern front and on the Ebro is The newspapers state that an official been closely studied.
ington Nine Power Treaty which is an example and encouragement for of the Greater Shanghai Municipal In this the experts have had the reported in some newspapers, and all those behind the front. Our eyes Government was refused permission example of the Japanese themselves, which would doubtless lead to coun-are fixed on the future of our country. and on the independence of our soll, to Interview Major-General Telfer- At the beginning of this year the ter measures against Japanese trade and we shall gain the victory which
the world. Smollett in an effort to protest puppet Government in Peking intro- in other parts of the
we deserve."-Trana-Ocean. feeling The
of resentment against the British action.
duced a new tariff for imports into
3RD WEEK OF OFFENSIVE The newspaper "Mainichi" weltes: North China under which Japanese London is dus rather to the fact that This British ncl of vandalism goods benefited by from 25 to 75 per by a policy of granting preferences
Saragossa, Jan. 8. hould be answered by decisive steps cent
to Japanese and Manchukuoan gooits by Japan. The British resorted to Any action of this nature would and of putting obstacles in the way
against Catalonia, now in its third action of the most malignant kind." be a serious blow to Japan, for the of British goods, Japan is gaining week, has driven back the Loyallat
Brilish military authorities state British Empire and the United States economic control of China without resistance in the plains of Urgel, it is DAMAGES of £500 for libel that they closed the police station are her principal customers, absorb- obvious breaches of treaty once the claimed. because it was Inside the British de- ing roughly 50 per cent. of her very fact of the war has been accept- The dimculties ahead in the
exporis,
ed and condoned by Great Britain. campaign, especially in the northern the "horoscope" case before Mr. The authority of the Japanese- But retallallon of this sort is cal- The Driush Ambassador's protests, sector, have not been miscounted, Justice Charles in the King's sponsored Chinese affeints in not re- culated to lead to counter-reprisals, I understand are met with the bland but it is noteworthy that General Bench Division recently. cognised in this arca,-United Press. and it is for this reason that the assurance that preferences between Yague's Moroccan army corps la They were in favour of Mr. Nor
most pains-talking study of the ques the Far Eastern Powers are to the using pontoon bridges, flung across man Crook and his wife, Hettle Eli- tion is being made before any decl- benefit of China. These assurances the Ebro at Mora, and has establishedzabeth Crook, trading on the Globe slon is reached,
carry less and less weight with the contact with the Navarrese legion-Syndicate, and Mr. John D. M. British Government, and it would aries.
Exall, whom they sued. Meantime the "Daily Telegraph" i not be
If dimculties be surprising
Headquarters claim the conquest of action by Mr. Mitchell against Mr. publishes the appended statement came acute early in the New Year" at least 1,200 square miles and the Crook and Mr. Exall for damages from its own Correspondent-
The "Manchester Guardian" of capture of 30,000 prisoners since the for alleged conspiracy and slander Shanghai, Monday. Tuesday
"Boy pointed out that the
start of the offensive.
Iniled. Thanks to the discovery of an American
"Great concern is felt here in colt Japan"
made con- rovement ling physician, It now in possibin to get slit of
LOYALIST CLAIMS
Mr. Justice Charles had ruled bose terrible apolis of choking, gaping,
British shipping circles at a report siderable progress in Manchester and On the other hand, according to there was no evidence to go to the congblur and whensing Astuma by king that a Japanese concern, the Yangtsel district to the past few days. Man-a Barcelona communication, the jury against Mrs. Allee Emily Day. He trus cause which is farms in the hood. Shipping Company, has been formed chester's part in the "Boycott Japan" Loyalists in the three days of their ley, who was joined as defendant in
to more burning of powders, no more by poderauto infections. This new discovery, with the object of controlling trafic day on Saturday will be in the form surprise offensive on the Estremadura the libel proceedings and dismissed Mondaco, taria to work in a thinutes, kil on the Yangtse under the menopolis of poster parades in the afternoon front have driven a broad salient to her from the suit with casta.
The plaintifs complained that, the tle system. Introduced by the Japa- and evening. Show-cards are being the west, 25 miles from their original nese into many branches of trade in prepared for use in shops conveying positions.
Globe Syndicate having prepared a China.
the assurance "We don't sell Japa- North of Fuenteo Venjana they series of horoscopes, Mr. Mitchell SA NO ENODGMAtul jį in guaranteed to give you fun, cany breathing in 26 hours and to stop
It is reported that the company nese goods" and steps will be token have cleared a wide loop to the river wrote to customers with whom they {ur Anthima osmpletely the day or money was floated on Saturday at a meet- by the new group to let the public Zugar, and have captured the road had left horoscopes suggesting they auch an Junction at Persleda and Dezucojo, | were a "colourable imitation of his shows rive ing at which 60 Japanese directors know which
in the Badajoz province, duly about | sopyright horoscopes," saute à Beştačte you wpzquiem Mason were elected and a Chinese compra-l'Undertaking.
fence sector.
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