Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 9, 1939.
PEIPING IN
China Peace Hopes Depend JAPANESE On International Parley
PRESENT Colony's Big Guns Stripped For Action
POSITION STATED
CHUNGKING, Feb. 8. THERE CANNOT be any direct peace negotiations between Japan and China, and therefore only an in- ternational conference
on
the Far East, in the nature
of a second Washington conference, would be likely to produce a settlement of the present Sino-Japanese conflict.
This fact was stressed by Chinese official circles here, who yesterday gave "Reuter" a sum mary of the military, political, economic, and social aspects of the present situation, affecting the Chinese Government.
These circles believe that Japan would like to terminate the present hostiles, but she would insist
un
victor's terms, which China, they de clare, will never accept.
Similarly they argue that no terms presented by China
would be ne-
ceptable to Japan.
BIG PUSH ANTICIPATED
Therefore, it is predicted that
Japan will make
This exclusive picture, taken by our Staff Photographer, "somewhere in Hongkong," shows one of the Colony's huge guns 'stripped for action, and manned by Indian gunners, during the recent gunnery practice by Hongkong's defences.
military used wore big Eighty Entombed
push, and will then
be
prepared to discuss peace, be
leving that thus she can obtain better terms,"
state,
A controverslal point, they would be the question of the suppres sion Communism in China. So fur
of no practical solution to this deffcale issue has been envisaged,
Despite numerous reports of tight- ing in west Shans, west Hupeh, and southern Kwangtung, generally speaking there has been no military development of any great importance in recent weeks, these circles clure.
de-
JAPANESE TROOPS MOVE According to Information obtain- ed from reliable Chinese sources, the Japanese are quietly withdraw- Ing a number of troops from the Yangise Valley. They are cald to be withdrawing troops from Han- kow, Klukiang, Shanghai, Hang- chow, and other points. Japanece troops, it is also stated, are being withdrawn from South China.
Chinese headquarters see no like- Ilhood of fresh Japanese offensive, eliher in Hunan, Hupeh, and the or in South China
movements
Kinngst proga. towards
The present
of
Japanese troops in China tend to in-
dicate that the Japanese may attempt
to seize Chengchow, the junction of the Peiping-Hanitow
Shansi towards Slan.
3
Miners Rescued
TOKYO, Feb. 8. RESCUE WORKERS have extricated eighty miners who were entombed in their 'village at Sugino yesterday afternoon as the result of a landslide.
The entire face of a mountain overlooking Sugino collapsed, burying the town
and its Inhabitants.
Rescue work was conumented Immediately and when the debris was cleared away eighty men and women were found Bill alive.
Twenty were killed in the avalanche.-Dome!.
COLONIAL LEAGUE
IS FORMED
London, Feb. 0.
THE WORST CASE OF ILL-TREATMENT
HE HAD EVER HEARD
-H.K. Magistrate
REMARKING that it was one of the worst cases of ill- treatment of which he had heard, Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy this morning fined a woman, Chim Mai-yuk, 25, and her husband, Ng Kam-shiu, 35, shop-keeper, $500 and $250 respectively, on a charge of ill-treating an unregistered mui- tsai, Lo Yiu, alias Ng Yiu, 12, at No. 9 Pokfulum Road, accond floor. Another man, Chow Ha-ho, 23, a clerk employed by Ng, was fined $100 on a charge of assaulting the girl on February 6. The defendants pleaded guilty.
Chim and Ng were charged with bringing the girl' Into the Colony keeping an unregistered mui-tsal, ill-with them. fecating the girl, and alternatively, The first two defendants were on assaulting her.. Chow was only buit of $200 each, and third defen- charged with assault. The third dant was on bail of $50. charge against Chim and Ng Wan later withdrawn.
came to
Czechs Getting Rid Of Refugees
HANDS
Revelations By A Hongkong Visitor
IT is common knowledge in Peiping that Wu Poi-fu, the re- tired Shantung general, did not accept the Japanese offer to be- come "Pacification Commissioner of China" on January 31, as was widely reported by the Japanese news agencies, and it is general-* ly believed that the 68-year-old veteran soldier will never yield to Japanese pressure, said a noted businessman from Peiping, In an interview with a represen- tative of the "Telegraph" last night.
"Wu Pei-fu made it clear to the Japanese," he said, "that until their troops had completely evacuated from China and until he had complete free- dom to direct the troops, he would not accept the offer."
"These demanda naturally could not be complied with by the invaders. "When Lieut-General Kenji Dol- hara, chief of the Japanese military special service in China, called on Marshal Wu Pel-fu in his Peiping re sidence, the Japanese recalled the bitter struggle between Generni Chiang Kai-shek and himself during the days of the Nationalist Revolu tionary Expedition, and Incited the ex-general
erul to take vengeance against his old for.
"Wa replied smilingly, 'Even I'd take vengeance against him I would not do so with foreign ald."
"Wu understood perfectly well what a "puppet" post means.
"Even
No. 1 "pupp
Ke-min, Pelping's
would conscientious-
ly admit that the so-called Provi- sional Government has nothing to do with the governance of the city, not to say in the districts outside Pel- ping.
CITY COMPLETELY UNDER
JAPANESE CONTROL
"The city is completely and ab- solutely under the military control of four Japonese organs, namely, the Headquarters of Japanese Gerrison In North China, the Pelping Office of the
Headquary Special Service, the
in
of Japanese gendarmes
government
Peiping and the Peiping Office of the South Manchuria Railway Com- рапу. The provisional is no more than
# "puppet." "Guerilla activities around Pelping are not at all exaggerated in the Press. The ancient wall of Peiping now forms an important line of de fence of the modern Japanese army in the city against night raids
by the vigilant partisans. Heavy Japan- ese garrisons are stationed inside and outside all city gates which are all closed nt seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Some of the clty gates are not opened even in daytime.
The Tch Shing Men or the Gate of Victory has been closed since the Japanese occupation of the city.
"In Peiping to-day Martial Law may be proclaimed at any moment in any section of the city. On most occasions, the reasons of the military measures are the coming and going of Japanese chiefs in the city. Some- imes it lasts for three or four hours in the daytime when traffle is com- pletely
stopped,
"Searches have become daily hap- enings in Pelping, not only in the streets during daytime, but also at mid-night or early morning among private residences. Furthermore, the
Japanese gendarmes usually do not enter the house to be searched by the main door, but affect sudden entry with Indder and ropes like bandits. And it is only good luck (Continued on Page 9).
The little girl, who was in Court, bore a number of bruises over her Mr. H. W. Fraser, Inspector of Mul-arms, and these were examined by Tsai, prosecuted and said that the his Worship. girl went to West Point police station on Tuesday and reported that she was an unregistered mul-tsal and, A new Colonial League was that she had been assaulted by Chim and Lunghai formally constituted at a meeting of and her husband, Tallways, with the intention of push members of Parliament of all parties
Continuing, inig westwards
Mr. Fraser said: "The along the Lunghai and others interested in colonial girl was taken to the Secretarint for railway Lowurds Tungkwan,
questions to-day, with the object of Chinese Affairs, and there she said strategie pass on the Yellow River bringing before the public, the im- that nineteen months ago, she had bend from which, it is sunnised, the portance of the British colonial em-been handed as security to Ng by Japanese may attempt to invade pire, and particularly to stress the her purents for the sum of $100. The human, moral, and political objec-girl remained with Chim and Ng in llons POLITICAL MOVES
to any concessions to the Amoy, where they resided, until five Such a development, it is stated, British colonial or inundated terri- Hongkong owing to the war.
German demand for the surrender of months ago, when they will not have any vital milltary con- tories.
PRAGUE, Feb. 8. sequence, for it is believed that future
Kirl
said that during her stay with THE Czecho - Slovak Social Japanese military eperations will be
The Council of the new League, in the couple she had to do the entire Ministry stated to-day, that carried on purely for the purpose of cludes Lord Lugard, Lord Hailey, work of the house. strengthening forthcoming pollileal Lord Stonehaven, Lord Selborne, Sir meals by herself and ate food left Czecho-Slovakia since October
She took her about 4,000 refugees had left LETTERS What character these moves are James
Cecil Rodwell, Mr. L. S. Amery, Mr. over from the table, mostly burnt
Rothschlid, and Mr. Neel rice. She slept on a very thin mat with the assistance of the likely to assume is the subject of Baker.
on a stone floor with a very thin Government's refugee institute, very great interest here.
bed every night at 4 a.m. and rose were going to Palestine this covering over herself. She went to while in addition, 2,500 Jews The outcome of the hosillities,
present chairman of the executive committee. Chinese circles Cm
at 8.30 a.m. phasised, depended largely
-Reiter Special,
month. future developments In Europe. If War
breaks out in Europe, with and Britain emerging victors, it is most likely that China will take the offensive and will War to n
INOVEN
France
prosecuto her own
victorious conclusion,
on
Sir Samuel Wilson was elected
National Service For Rhodesia
used
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The
On
To the Editor,
tura
Notice, the General Post Offee will
Hongkong Telegraph. Sir,-As published in to-day's Mail henceforth close ordinary airmall fot the trans-Pacifle Clipper service at The refugees had been permitted 7.30 am. on the morning of depar- "One morning between January 31 to take about 30,000,000 and February 6, the girl said she crowns with them,
Czech
at the GP.O. only. was awakened about 4 a.m, by the
For some time. it the special
Dime time past, first defendant, who burned her with
request of this Company, ordinary The spokesman stated that nego-airmail has been closed the night be a lighted cigarette on the arm and tiations were at present proceeding fore departure. pinched the back of her hand,
However, through satisfactorily with Canada. Australia, alleviation another occasion, the second defen- and Rhodesie for the responsibility regulations, we have been able to
of certain dant struck her with a wooden pole of abrorbing several thousand res withdraw our request, and the G.P.O. emergency
and in collapsible canvas beds be-fugees, and similar negotiations were have made arrangements to again cause she failed to get up to let the in progress with Nicaragua and San allow the almalling public extra night-solt coolie In. On a further Domingo,
time for posting. occasion, she was beaten chest, back and hands with a feather end of this year it was hoped to deal as far as possible to post the day be
The Ministry added
Then that by the The public are requested, however, duster because she failed to cook the with about 30,000 urgent cases, in-fore departure and to pay particular Despite strenuous objections on the sent hostilities. The masses in China Chim and her husband were pointed nationality, and 7,000 German emi-M
rice in a proper manner. drastic change as a result of the pre-.
cluding 15,000 Jewn from Sudeten attention to closing times of register- part of financial circice in London, had limited economic requirements
"I Inspected the address where land, 5,000 Germans of Czech ed airmail appearing in the published who still favour free trade in China, which were easily met by local re- polles station and allowed out on ball
Notices, especially out to me. They were taken to the
when they could, at present, only do buel-
Clippers arrive or depart on Sundays ness with foreign countries on barter arrangement
was added: "Next year it should for "bolldaya. The Sino-Japanese
of $200 each, and told to return the bo possible to undertake the emi- This was be brought about no great social up came back with the third defendant, Prass. cause China could only obtain arma heavals in China, The wealthy and and the girl told me that about 7
PII S. DELANT, next day. The following day, they gration of Czech Jews." United
Traffic Representative and ammunition by giving Chinese cultural classes remained
for China, products in exchange.
p.m. on February 0, she threw awny an incence burner,
third de fendant
dant ordered her
On the other hand, it is felt here
Landon, Feb. 8. that if peace by compromise and con The Government of South Rhodu- ccsalon continues in Europe, inter-sin has national
decided to mke national onal pressure may be brought to registration compulsory, with an Act bear on both China and Japan to end providing for milliary service with the
war by negotiation, Present
out undue dislocation of Industries. international develop-Reuter, ments, the informants went on to say, destroyed all the academic theories of international trade.
NO SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
sources.
the
wor
had or
the
dominating group in the Government, an while the peasants and
and
The
on
the
gres.
It
Referring to the economie condi-stil formed the mainstay of the The burner was in the bottom of the Blood Tests To
tions in China, these circles declared Chinese army. that these hnd not undergone any Active assistance from
Spelling
Decide Paternity
to retrieve it. bin, and the girl was unable to ret
unable to A Russia to China in the present war her around the ankles with a feather Soviet-back, so the third accused struck had naturally increased the prestige duster. The girl was sent to hos- of the U.S.S.R., but Intelligent pital for a medical examination, and
London, Feb. 8. circles, who, after all, ruled China,
The House of Lords gave a second produce the medical report." reading to the Bastardy (Blood Test) Imposing the penaltier, his Wor- Bill to-day, under which courts mins.
Beet
trafficar kkinap
Klderminster
were firm in their belief that if China
and Washington.
The Chinese Communist "Reuter
Informed,
How many of there words are hoped to attain lasting pence, and ship remarked that it was one of the on application of loose, a correct and what is wrong with embark on a programme of recon- worst mees of ill-treatment he had party in on affilation case, order a the others?.
frizzly
struction, she must turn to London heard of. There might have been blood test to be made of all three pilgrimage
other word cases, but
but he had never parties and appucant, chi18," and frontige
Party, heard of them.
defendant. Englia Oxford Dictionary spell-approach anywhere near the Kuus the charge of keeping an unregistered the Bill, which he claimed, had the "cannot Chlin and Ng were cautioned on Lord Dawson of Penn supported ings of these words will be found on mintang as regards, position and myl-tag on his Worship held that support of the scientifs world. page 9.
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