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FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph
YOUNDED 1881
No. 15733
五拜禮 號七十月一英港香
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939.
日八初月二十
CHILE DEATH ROLL MOUNTS
Fifteen Thousand Die in Three Big Cities: Entire Country Wrecked
FAMINE, DISEASE THREATEN THE HOMELESS SURVIVORS
(Special to "Telegraph")
Copyright bu United Press Association Telecommunications Ordinance, 1974, Recelord 7.45 uan. F'sellished 10.15 am.
SANTIAGO, JAN. 26.
IT IS INDICATED THAT THE EARTHQUAKE DEATH ROLL MAY
HAVE REACHED 15,000 IN THREE CITIES ALONE, NAMELY CHILLAN, CONCEPCIÓN, AND SAN ROSENDO.
A radio message from a "United Press" correspondent says that "Temuco has re-established telephonic communication with San Rosendo, where 2,000 people are dead and hundreds buried in the ruins."
San Rosendo is an important railway junction.
Hundreds of thousands in the earthquake zone have been rendered homeless, and are threatened with famine and disease.
As a result hundreds of doctors and nurses have been rushed to the devastated areas in relief trains.. with hundreds of tons of food and medical supplies, despatched from Santiago.
MAJ, GEN, BARTHOLOMEW
Lieutenant
Of Tower
Of London
LONDON, Jan. 26.
MAJOR-GENERAL A,
|CHILLAN'S COLOSSAL LOSS
According to popular reports the wounded and
| missing in Chillan number 15,000.
President Aguirre-Cedra, who left the southlands in a train last night, intending personally to supervise relief, later decided to return to Santiago, due to the difficulties of proceeding further south, where the repair of the damaged railway tracks will be In long business.-United Press,
Iron Guard Sabotage Plot In Rumania
BUCHAREST, Jan. 26. THE DISCOVERY of
BARCELONA.
The Fall Of Barcelona
LOYALISTS OFFER NO RESISTANCE
U.S. FEARS CRISIS IN
REPORTS FROM various sources indicate that the Insurgents met with practically no resistance in the capture of Barcelona.
The Insurgents are reported to have marched into the city's streels "more like crusaders than a modern army." according FRAGMENTARY NEWS to "Trans-Ocean," the German News Agency, which says that Fragmentary reports con- tinued to arrive at Santiago dur-crucifixes were carried in front ing to-day telling of rich com that strict orders were given to of the conquering troops, and munities which had been literally Franco's artillery not to fire on wiped out, and that-thousands
the centre of the city in order to upon thousands
were killed,
avoid unneccesary destruction. missing, or injured, while hundreds of thousands face disease and famine as a result of southern Chile's earthquake.
The same agency reports that the occupation of the city is proceeding without a hitch. The completely in- timidated population started to come out of their shelters once. they had realised that the troops were making a peaceful occupation.
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China Arms Case
CORRIGAN TELLS OF TRAFFIC IN WAR MATERIALS
LONDON, Jan. 26.
DENIS MICHAEL CORRIGAN, 46 year-old agent, who, with Frederick Willing and James Herbert Willing, metal merchants, are charged with conspiracy to defraud an armaments firm of £7,250, continued his evidence in the Old Bailey trial to-day.
Corrigan, who had previously spoken of his dealings with Shu, a Chinese "mystery man", withi whom, it is alleged, he negotiated
CHINESE
an arms and munitions deal for DRIVE ON
his
China, said to-day that repayment to Willing and payments in connection with the shipments of arms amounted to £4,685, which were a direct loss to him. He thought Shu would repay the money, but he didn't.
HANGCHOW
Vanguards Approach Lake-side City
KINHWA, Jan. 27. CHINESE VANGUARDS are
Questioned by counsel for Frederick | Willing. Corrigan said he had been dealing in arms since 1935. He agreed that he told Willing that Shu was hend of a purchasing commission for the Chinese Government, und approaching Hangchow, beauti- that he was advising Shu.
ful lakeside city in Chekiang NEGOTIATIONS WITH EMBASSY while the main Chinese force has reached an undisclosed place in west Chekiang.
Counsel: Have you had other transactions with the Chinese Em- bassy relating to arms?
Chinese proclamations have already been seen posted in the outsicirts. Corrigan: There were negotiations. The three plers of the Chientang Corrigon said that Captain Ball River bridge outskie Hangchow city gave evidence before the Royal Com-damaged by the Chinese upon their mission on Arms in 1936, and it was withdrawal from the city and repair- possible that he told Fred Willing ed lately by the Chinese have again that Captain Bail was of the Foreign been blown tip by Chinese gueritias, Office and was advising the Chinese-Central News. Embassy about their purchases, a statement that he did not check.
JAPANESE DRIVE CHECKED Chungteh, Jan. 27. A NOTORIOUS PERION
The Japanese driving westward in checked Counsel: He is a notorious person, central upch have been isn't he? Didn't he tell the Royal back by the Chinese, Commisson that his method of buying In a fierce counter-offensive two Chinese troops columns of erack was to bribe Government officials?
smashed into Kingshan, about 90 Corrigan: It is possible.
miles north-west of Hankow, and re- Counsel: Was he advising
which captured the strategic town Chinese buying commission?
fell into Japanese hands recently. Corrigan: I saw him with Shu
The Japanese are reported to be several times at the Chinese Embassy retreating to Yingcheng and Han
Cross-examined, Corrigan. denied chwan, respectively 52 and 30 miles that Shu was a fraud, end that he northwest of Hankow on the north knew it from the beginning. He said bunk of the Han River. The Chinese 14 and
the
that he could not understand why are pressing toward ingeleng on
Shu should go to the expense of half i
half miles southwest of sending a duminy eargo, but some the Hankow-Ichang Railway. extraordinary things were done
According to a telephone message this particular business. Shu would from Shasi, Sicntiochen, on the Han WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.
not have sent the dummy curgo un-
River, about 47 miles southwest of THE AMERICAN GOVERN-less he had good reason. I
Hankow us the crow flies, has atro been re-
been re-occupied by Chinese guerillas. MENT is preparing to withstand hoochow (permit) had
the A Japanese detachment was beaten, the shock of another world crisis covered, he would have sent
Funs. No оде knew where the suffering heavy easualties-Central in the spring or summer of this hoochow was, but he understood year.
Lafitte had it.
COMPLETE BOMBSHELL
Corrigan added that he would take proceedings against Shu for the re- covery of his money. He thought Shu was in Washington or New York. James Willing, the third defendant, said that it was a complete bombshell
News.
LATEST
French Policy Reviewed
It is impossible to get an securate estimate of the total dead, injured and missing-for example the official estimate is 5,000 dead, compared withi the estimate of newspaper corres-
A Bilbao message by "Trans- That is. the assumption which an pondents and army aviators estinate "Iron Guard" plot aiming at number misslog.
of at least 10,000, with an equal Ocean" states that serious diverg-emerges unmistakably from the series encies, arose between members of the of conferences which the President the destruction of Bucharest's'
Marxist parties and the Catalan party and offlelals of the State Department Carabineros in the sirleken areas prior main public buildings, doubtless gave the following estimates:
prior to the occupation by General have been having with the principal At Franco's troops. The Catalans were American Ambassadors abroad, who involving a considerable loss of Parral, 150 dead and 200 injured, with in favour of Immediate surrender l were summoned home specially for life, has caused very great the city half destroyed; at San Carlos, order to prevent destruction of the the purpose. excitment among the public, 50 dead and 100 injured; at Yungay city, but the extremists preferred ine Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Mr. Wilson, when he was arrested. He had no 20 dead and 50 injured; at Couquenes city's destruction to surrender. This Mr. Phillips and Mr. Bullitt, Am-intention to defraud Lafite. He had The plotters planned first to throw 5,000 dead and the city completely state of affairs was revealed in a bassadors to London, Berlin, Rome, not acquiesced in any of the state. gas bombs into the buildings and destroyed.
broadcast on Wednesday night, which and Paris respectively, left no doubts ments he believed to be untrue. He then to set them on Are from
Paris, Jan. 20. The Government has suspended stated that certain high officials were in the mind of any with whom they had been trying since July illstance.
M. Georges Bonnet, the French permission for anyone to travel south-working secretly for General Franco spoke here that a fresh crisis is to be settlement of outstanding amounts
between himself and Lafitte.
Foreign Minister, this afternoon ad- It is understood that a number of ward except those on emficial added that these elements would be
The announcement expected during 1039.
The hearing WIS adjourned-dressed the Chamber, and in a speech buildings were destined for de- The authorities have ordered can- struction besides those mentioned in cellation of passenger trains, and have ruthlessly removed, even though the In official communique.
forbidden cars to travel below Talca most prominent leaders abould be In order to avoid a shortage of Involved. supplies, accommodations, and dis- are already very tribution which dimeult-United Press.
ROYAL PALACE PLOT
(1
It is rumoured that they included the private dwellings of members of of the Government, and probably the royal palnee.
The
papers, apparently on orders of the Government, have|
Military Supplies
refrained from commenting on the For China's Army
affair.
Consternation has been caused by the fact that those arrested Include:
Chungking, Jan, 20.
Fin the city.
ROME JUBILATION
despatch, with warm: tributes
hero wh
WILL ACT FOR PEACE Whatever form the coming trouble may take, there is no doubt that Pre- sident Roosevelt will net again as irmly for peaco as he did last year.
Reuter.
to go!
which had been awaited with con- siderable tension, reviewed in detall
countries of the world.
Another American France's relations with all the chief
There are, however, two things the Note To Germany
SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS
In the diplomats' gallery was Mr.
Winston Churchill, who sat next to
the British Ambassador, Sir Eric Phipps.
See Back Page For Farther Late News
While the encirclement and capture President cannot do. He cannot stop of Barcelona is regarded as a victory the use of force, and he cannot put by many of the Italian morning himself in the position of assisting un
Washington, Jan. 20.
It was made known that on Satur- says a "United Prea
The United States accuses Germany dny the Council of Ministers meeting PM aggressor to obtain by negotiation
of well known discriminations what he has threatened to seize by against American citizens in a formal pald to General Frames such as a
force, which divine
note to Berlin suggesting settlement Providence sent Nor could the United States lend of Austria's debt to facilitate exten- to liberate Spain," and "
"great its offices to effecting a transfer of sion of the most favoured nation strategist," the "Popblo de Roma" Įprominent members of Society, such Well-informed quarters state that significantly warns that the "fall of British, French Dutch, Portuguese treatment to American creditors.
Dor Belginn territory to Germany and as Dr. George Buiu. He is the con- the highest milltary authorities have Barcelona may not mean the end of Italy under threats of war. in-law of John Marinescu, the world-authorised the Ministry of Economics the war, since the friends and pro- known authority on neurology, who, to appropriate 200,000,000 yuan to tectors of the Reds will attempt to
What the Washington Government former General
shocked patients in Britain. Marinescu quantity of which would be enough Officer died last year.
to support the Chinese armies and the Loyalists' cause in the war, the can do, and what it will do if Con- gress modifies the Neutrality Act in China's resistance in the war for the paper added: "French intervention in time, is to give moral and economic British Commanding the
It is doubtful whether the police next ten years.
Spaln not a novelty. But to-day} will be able to arrest all the con- troops in China, has been
in France it is believed that she can support to any victim of aggression. spirators.
"Iron This morning
The President, of course, is not in It is said that the agricultural more or less officially Intervene on a the position to think in terms of sup appointed Lieutenant of the Guard lawyer committed suicide by bureau instructions immediately, large-scale by sending men, arms, and porting the status quo by force any by the Communists, and is a burning issue for China, said Tower of London as from blowing out his brains at his home, out
and it is auspected that he was and is proceeding to make purchases unfurled flags. It is really folly." March 6.-Reuter,
implicated in the plot.-United Press, both from districts in the inferior and from agricultural countries overseas, -United Pron.
W. BARTHOLOMEW, during the war, worked among ahell-purchase military foodstuffs, the total prolong the war as long as possible."
In warning that the French old
Major General Bartholomew succeeds another former General Oficer Commanding the British Troops in China, LA. General Sir
11.M.S. Dursetshire has arrived from Welhaiwei.
the
where outside the Western Hemis
war
FREDA UTLEY ON CHINA Mobilisation of People An Issue
for some
She said that
LONDON, Jan. 26. MOBILISATION OF the people has-been long demanded Freda Utley when lecturing to-day at the Royal Central Aslan phere. NAVARESSE FIRST IN.
It is pointed out that he is ob- Society. Barcelona, Jan. 20. viously not thinking of America One of "Reuter's" special corres being involved in
the willing CD- In Kwangs there had been similar pondents who entered Barcelona with years. If he were, the re-armament operation of the peasants was indis- reforms though by different methods, U.S. ARMY PLACING BIG General Franco's forces, states that he has just recommended would be pensable for the success of mobile which had made the Kwongsi bea-
AIR CONTRACTS
the the complete investment of the altogether too small. It is clear from warfare and guerilla tacties which sants the most warlike and most Loyalist capital was accomplished his address to the new
ess, had formed the offensive phase of the ardent anti-Japan factions in Chinn. Congress, during the night, the city, being sur- | however, that Prezident Roosevelt is
Chiang Kai-shek war upon which rounded on all sides. The Army has received bids from
to play his part in averting was, now entering.
Miss Utley said that Chiang Kai- The Communists in North China Navarrese troops began to niech war during 1939 by making it
plain
small altek had so für been held back by that any aggressor will have to count had shown comparatively As they marched triumphantly with American economic support agrarian reforms, but they were the influence of oldiraditions and. Sir Walter Raleigh, William Penn, The manufacturers wore asked to through the streets), half a million being given to his victim.
enough to enlist the peasants, support, the sentiments of some of the ele Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer and submit prices for single-seater planes people appeared, cheering wildly, Even in the remote, event of the while the sacrifices demanded from mata in the Chinese Goverriment. many others were imprisoned In the for quantities up to 600, and for “fois Every window and balcony: daw United States being involved in war the rich were not so great to Brian and American credits to
Tok 3,000-Rguier, Tower.
B200 (Continued on: Pare:4). (Contimied on Ps 1.)
throw them into Japan's farms, dalys, (Continued on Page 4.) (
Oswald Borreti, na Lieutenantos a prison was revived. Sir William Wallace, King David II and King of the Tower of London:
James of "Scotland, the "Lille
Dayton, Ohio, Jan, 20.
alrcraft manufacturers on a
The Tower of London was built Princes" (Edward V and his brother)arge order for single-seater pursuit into the city at noon,
Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, by William the Conqueror in the
Lady Jane Grey, Princess Elizabeth, planes. eleventh century.
The Yeoman Warders retain their picturesque Tudor uniforms. During The Great War the use of the Tower
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