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FINAL EDITION
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Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 16720
FOUNDED 1001 四拜體
日九十月一十 --- THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939.
SPANISH GOVERNMENT MAY
NEW NAME FOR MOVE
N.Y.K. LINER
THE
THE CHICHIBU MARU, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's 17.500 ton liner will hereafter be known as the Kamakura Maru, according to an an- nouncement by the N.Y.K. yesterday.
On
The liner entered the Yoko- hama Dockyard on Wednesday in order to have the new name painted
She her hull. arrived of Yokohama on January 14 from San Francisco. completing her 1.080 crossings of the Pacific.
The change of name is attri- buted to the difficulty of pro- nunciation upon the change of spelling from Chichibu Maru to Titibu Maru, necessitated by the new Romaji spelling.-
Domci,
COLONY'S GREATEST EVIL IS REVEALED
Staggering Increase
In Immorality: Need For Action
TO
VALENCIA
WARSHIP TO EVACUATE ALL MINISTERS FROM BARCELONA
Burgos, Jan. 18.
IT IS STATED THAT THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES HAVE RECEIVED
A REQUEST FROM THE LOYALIST GOVERNMENT TO PREPARE AC- |COMMODATION FOR 30,000 REFUGEES.
Other circles state that the Premier, Dr. Juan Negrin has engaged a French warship for the evacuation of the Loyalist Government and its archives in the event of the situation becoming more serious.
It is generally believed that when the fighting reaches the outskirts of the town, or the defence lines collapse, Dr. Negrin and the Foreign Minister, Senor Alvarez Del Vayo will take charge personally of the defence of the city in orderto stave off defeat as long as possible, while other members of the Government will be sent to Valencia.
A daily increasing number of refugees from Loyalist | Spain are reaching the French border.
Several Loyalist soldiers crossed the frontier to-day in an exhausted condition. They were fed, and at their request, were sent to the Insurgent Spanish frontier ¡near Irun,
China Protest To Hungary?
GENEVA, Jan. 17.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that at the meeting of the
Council,
the League
Numerous wealthy Catalans have fled by car to France, and are at present staying near Perpignan-Chinese Delegation, head-
AS A RESULT of investiga-Trans-Ocean.
tions carried out over a period of }
a fortnight, the "Telegraph" can Loyalists Mass
publish to-day statistics that
indicate that since the closure For Last Defence
of registered houses, illegal viceį
and slavery has increased in
Hongkong to a staggering ex-| tent.
registrulion ecased, there were ap-
HENDAYE, Jan. 18.
LOYALIST REINFORCEMENTS have been rushed
Ometal figures Indicate that, before 28 miles inland by truck from Barcelona to Igualada with proximately 3,000 of these women in orders to resist the invasion of Insurgent columns which the Colony. No woman under 18 years of age was permitted to register are attempting to pierce the capital's outer ring of
and each registered prostitute was subject to medical examination
To-day, it is believed that there are
at least 20,000 women and children.
fortifications.
In the event of the downfall of Igualada, only the who have become vietins of the Mont Serrat hills would be between Franço's armies and
system that has developed in this Colony.
CHILD VICTIMS
the "iron belt" around Barcelona's suburbs.
Of this total, about thirty per cent. Insurgent artillery to-day hammered the Queralt and Rubio approximately 7,500 are believed hills around Igualada and poured explosives on the villages. to be girls under the age of 18 years. while the entire Navarres army corps, under the command of Over 4,000 children between the General Valino moved eastward along the highway from Mont ages of twelve and sixteen years are belleved to have becoine victims. Mancy. New giri-children are being gathered by agents at the rate of scores every month.
Meanwhile a second motorised column advanced south-west and is reported to have captured Caldellerens and Caldellante.
el by Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to Paris, may issue a statement protesting against the recognition of "Manchukuo" by the Hungarian Government, in contravention of the Assembly's resolution of 1933.--Central News.
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AMERICA'S HUGE BID FOR DEFENCE AGAINST ATTACK
WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.
THE FORECAST that within three years the United States can be turning out warplanes at the rate of 12,000 a year, was made by Major-General H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army air corps, at a secret session of the House of to Representatives military committee, according members of the committee.
Previously, at an open hearing. Major-General Amold testified that an army, survey showed that the aircraft industry's pro- ductive capacity, which was now about 2,500 planes a year, could be doubled or quadrupled,
Representative May, chairman of the military affairs committee, intro- duced o Bill for an authorised Increase of 3,080 planes for the army, and to permit the War Secretary to equip the air corps with planes not exceeding 6,000,-Reuter,
NAVY APPROPRIATION
Washington, Jan. 18.
GERMANY'S
MORALE WEAKENING
Internal Dissension Among Nazis, Report
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.
THAT THERE IS EVIDENCE of a gravé undercurrent of The Navy's appropriation bill, deal- dissension and dissatisfaction in Ing with fortifications, is expected to Germany to-day is revealed by
be presented to Congress this week.
Representative Carl Vinson, chair. Mr. William Phillp Sims, foreign man of the House naval affairs com- editor of the Scripps-Howard. mittee, said that he presumed the newspaper combine, in a signed measures would include Guam It
article which is published in understood that the bill is going to Congress without a prior formal Washington.
direct
submission to President Roosevelt.
In the article he asserts
that
A Navy spokesman said that the "private and frank correspondence navy would continue to urge fortifica- from diplomatic sources in London tion of Guan, and that Admiral WII-and Paris reveals that the situation HOLLYWOOD,
Ham Leahy would appear before the inside Germany is far from good." Jan. 19.
congressional committee to present
Ite continues: "Even Field-Marshal- the navy's viewpoint, and to urge Hermann Goering is reported to have HOLLYWOOD'S veteran strategic and other considerations, advised against any polley which the country into a romance, the eleven-year- and to explain the cost of the estl- might plunge
mates
general war. old marriage of Fay Wray
Inasmuch as the naval fortification "As a result he has incurred the and scenario-writer John bill will require firstly, fiscal authori- enmity of Herr Joachim von Ribben- Saunders, has foundered onion, and secondly, fiscal appropria-trop, the Foreign Minister, and Herr
the rock of the Court.
tion, somo Congressmen believe that divorce Congress might be asked to enact an authorisation programme, but funds would not be appropriated, except perhaps, for channel improvements and minor alreraft developments,
Fay Wray has filed a suit for divorce, charging her husband with having told her friends that his married life was "bore," and that he would rather be a bachelor,
"Fay additionally alleges that Saunders "nagged, harassed and
HONGKONG'Stormented her, and repeatedly re- TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
quested her to divorce him.
No hair-raising, terror-producing film has ever been complete without Fay Wray
Record. Number Killed, Injured Last Year
IN FIVE YEARS, deaths
She screamed in horror through nine reels of "King Kong" yelled in anger in 9,000 feet of "The Most Dan greus Game" and "Doctor X shrickd in agony in "Mystery the Wax Museum."
The State Department hitherto has Guam, but informed circles beileve not taken an official stand, regarding that it is opposed to actual fortiden
tion.
OPPOSES DEFENDING THE PHILIPPINES Congressmen indicated that they
might ask Mr. Cordell Hull for the State Department's attitude during the hearings. Senator Tom Connolly. a member of the foreign affairs com- mittee, said that he was opposed to the fortification of Guam or any other extension of the line of defences beyond Hnwall. He Bald: "We should not attempt to defend the
¡Continued on Page 12.)
LATEST
FRENCH NOTE TO JAPAN
Protests Unilateral Modification Of Pact
TOKYO, Jan. 19. The French Ambassador in Philippines. They asked for their Tokyo has delivered a Note to freedom. Let them have it, and let the Japanese Foreign Ofce, in
and
of
She married Saunders in 1927. October, 1930.- United Press.
A
them.
from trafic accidents in Hone. daughter was born to the couple in us stay out of involvements with which France deelines to agree kong have nearly doubled to
reach in 1938 a record of 115
killed and 1,647 injured. Two Babies In
The "Telegraph" understands that, It is reported that General Franco has massed six Spanish of every woman or girl subject in the six months to investigation or report divisions and one Italian division for the battle of Igualada, as by Government and other anti-vice well as 300 pieces of artillery and at least nine squadrons of organisations, there has not been one bombing planes during the last 24 hours.-United Press.
In releasing these statistics to-day, case in which venereal disease has been absent.
Relief from Dr. Audrey Russell, officials of the Trafic Department medical adviser to the Friends 6er-attribute practically every instance vice Council in Catalonia, and to the of the 1,709 accidents arising from collisions as a result of careless International Commission for the
driving. assistance of child refugees, at present In Barcelona,
INSURGENT REAR
One of the gravest facts in con- nection with the increase in vice is THREATENED, CLAIM
that departmental hands are com pletely tied owing to the absence of suitable accommodation to which resoned girls and children could be sent.
LONDON, Jan. 18. SUCCESSFUL LOYALIST al- tacks on the Estremadura front
Year
1930 1913
Total accidents 2453
The cable stated: "Refugees from Hongkong for the past three Borias Blancas, Mont Blanch, and the are:- The Protection of Females Ordin-are claimed by the Spanish Cervera districts are now streaming towards Barcelona, saying that their homes have been blown to pleces The report says that the after on intense bombardment last-
ing Loyalists captured fresh posi-ing
week.
ance places all Chinese girls under the News Agency. age of 21 years, living apart from their parents, under the control of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
NO ACCOMMODATION
the streets unless accommodation is available for them.
· BABIES RATIONED
IN BARCELONA
The S.C.A. has succeeded in rescuing seventeen girls, all victims
LONDON, Jan, 18 A CABLE was received by the (Continued on Papa 4.) National Joint Committee for Spanish
SALE OF WARSHIPS DRAWS PROTEST
усага
75
Bi
Injured Killed
1100 2569
1113 2018
3703
1647
115 The number of accidents where
Wreck Drama
Senator Borah indicated that he to any unilateral modification of would lead the opposition if the fortithe Nine Power Treaty. fleation of Guam was introduced into Congressional Record statement by recent Notes delivered to the The French Note parallels the Major-General William C. Rivers, who is also opposing the Gum Japanese Government by Great fort Rentions.
Britain and the United States. SUPER-HIGHWAYS SUGGESTED It was known early’this morn-
Representative Buell
Snyder, ing that the text of the Note had Democrat, in a speech to the House been received from Paris for
to-day, recommended she
SIX
construc-
con-
Sco Back Page For Further Late Nows
The statistics of traffic accidents in Rescued Passengers
Brought To H.K. tion of 10,000 miles of "super high-transmission to the Japanese United States, in cash, across the Government, but it was not States, for the purpose of in- thought that it would be deliver- THE CHERIBON MARU'S 12 the cheaty of an and thused at present, owing to the fact
passengers, taken off when fence by "many per cent." and thus vehicles collided with vehicles dur- she went aground north of to aid the movement of artillery, in that the French Ambassador, M
cluding 10-inch
Guns,
arles Arsene Henry, was tem- searchlights, tions, threatening the rear of "Ia Barcelona, the babies areing 1938 18 1,453, and where vehicles Mindanao Island on Sunday, and other service vehicles which porarily absent from Tokyo. But the hands of omcials attempt the Insurgent positions at Sierra mi rationed at nine ounces of collided with stationary objects is arrived in Hongkong to-day on should be nited with rubber tyres
In the absence of the Am- milk, and less than four ounces of 310.
week, and it will bo
their way back to Japan. They and the main body of thent ing to cope with the problem are Mesagara and Sierra Telonera.sura
centrated in the mid-west, from bassador, the Note was delivered CARELESS DRIVERS completely tied by the fact that they] Reuter.
Impossible to provide for the new
were on the N.Y.K. atcamer where, in case of emergency, they to the Japanese Foreign unice "Collisions briween vehicles and influx, unless supplies are sent im-collisions cannot take women and children off
and Kamo Maru, from Australia, could get their wing equipment to
the between vehicles mediately.
atationary objects are always caused which went to the aid of the seacoasts and to either border within by the Councillor of the French
12 hours, and their rubber-lyred
Embassy-Reuter, "We also need more medical ald, through careless driving," said a Cheribon Maru,
equipment to the same places within increased supplies of surgical dress- Traffic Department official this morn- The rescued passengers Include 72 hours. ing, anaesthetics, and ambulances to ing. "Collisions between vehicles at-
The plan, including three trans- deal with the terrible slaughter on ways head the list in our weekly three children (two being bables).
two women, and one girl of 17. One continental roads, 100 feet wide, and the front."-United Press.
returns
he added.
north and south of the women, related her experi- "Undoubtedly, the Influx ΟΙ
highways, (Continued on Page 12.) has ac-ences to a "Telegraph" Interviewer. refugees from up country
"Aboat 3 n.m. on Sunday," she said, counted for many of the accidents London, Jan, 18.
with pedestrians," he said, "but "when we were near Cagayan in Allegations that Italy had violated motorists in Hongkong on December Mindanao Island, I felt a sharp shock the Non-Intervention Agreement by 31, 1930, were: Private cara 4,000:lice an earthquake shock. After selling worships to the Insurgent lorries-043: buses ~231; public cars thai shock the ship started to move Government, are contained in a Note and taxip-330: motor cycles--201: on again. Then I heard the whistle, handed to the Foreign Office by the trams-about
hurried on *103: rickshas80P and, with the others, Spanish Ambassador in London, who tricycles-approximately 1,330: bt-deck to see what was wrong. asked that the Note be communicated cycles not known.
"The ship was running very strong- to the Non-Intervention Committee.
The Traffe Department has issued ly, so that when she drove hard on Reaching 73.9 degrees yesterday 13 am 05,5; 6 am, $4.7; 6 am. 53.9; FighUng Ships to show that four of vehicles involved in accidents in did not take on a list. Had we been The note quotes from "Janes the following statistics on the types to the rocks she stayed upright and afternoon the higher temperature: 7 a.m. 53.0; 8 a.m. 55; é amm, 57.0.
destroyers and two submarines were 1938. It must be remembered that but another 100 yards further out recorded in January since 1931-the
FRESH-FAIR
purchased by the Insurgent Govern- frequently there is more The local weather forecast issued ment from Italy in 1987. mercury fell by, B.30 am to 53.9.
than one we would have escaped. vehicle connected with an accident. by the Royal Observatory this morn-
The note declares that "these moles Types of vehicles involved in acci»
NINE HOUR WAIT
Inspector H. E. Rogers said that, would do this again, he would be "At first there was a little excite-about 8 am, yesterday, Cheng Shul- given a longer term of imprisonmaak Privalo cars
1,067 Public carn
ment, but when the captain explain- lung, 24, the defendant, and another, and that the camp was a much better. 595
ed that the abip was held firmly in Internoe placed a long plank over place than gioi. A month's impri- her position and would not sink our the barbed-wire fence, in an attempt sonment was imposed. anxiety was allayed and things be to get over to the refugee camp came quieter, flowever, we were They were seen doing this and prisoner, who attempted to escape inst too awake after the experience to go Cheng was arrested. The other made January, 2, and was shot denarowie to bed and we waited up 10s ralfer, good his soaps, ADE He held by Mr. 2. Himsworth after s
(Continued on Page 4) Els Worship told Check if he owloon Magistracy, this
COLD WEATHER SETS IN Mercury Down 20 Deg. In Night
A REMARKABLE DROP in temperaturo of 20 degrees was recorded at the Royal Observatory between 3 p.m. yesterday and G o'clock this morning.
A drop of ten degrees was recorded ing was: North-east winds, fresh; are open violations of the non-inter-dents in 1938 were:- between 3 p.m, and 6 pm, yesterday, fair. and from 6 p.m. onwards the mer-
The weather report stated that the Venilon agreement on the part of the
Italian Government.”~--Reuter.
cury ateadly fell until 7 am, when arti-cyclone is stationary over China it commenced to rise again. At and the neighbouring seas, pressure o'clock this morning it was 57.0 being highest to the north of the degrees.
Yangiso Valloy, it has increased con- xiderably in "intenalty." Thode.
~This is how it varied:
a p.m. 73.0; 6 p.m. 60.3; 7.p.m. 69.1;|pression is crossing "Japan on 9 pin. 00; 11 p.m. 57,5; 1 km. 56.9; northerly track.
BELGIAN AGREEMENT WITH INSURGENTS
Brussels, Jan. 18. The agreement between the Belgian and Innargent Spanish govemments
(Continued on Page 4).
Lorries
Trams
⚫ Buses
Bicycles. Tricycles Motor cycles Rickahus
1,005
899
I
INTERNEE GETS AWAY One Prisoner Caught: One Escapes
AN ATTEMPT to escape from the Matauchung. Internment Camp early yesterday morning by two internees proved succeMË, ful for one. The second man was arrested and was charged: before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy this morbi ing.
L
An inquiry into the death
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