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WATAZNU THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1939.
日八十月二十
No. 15102
JAPANESE IN YOYANG FACE The Bill
NEW THREAT: HUNAN DRIVE
Ab
Sensation In Berlin
White Paper On Defence
SIXTY WARSHIPS IN 1939 BUDGET
Britain's £520,000,000 Plan For Defence Of Empire
LONDON, Feb. 15.
IN ITS WHITE PAPER on defence proposals, issued to-day, the Government
BERLIN, FEB, 15.
'HE DOUBLING of Britain's
TH
3rmament loan has caused some sensation in political circles here.
They are reluctant, how- evor, to say whether the Bri- tish stop is to be regarded as the signal for a new armaments
гасс.
Ono commentator stated: "It is obvious that other countries won't fail to watch developments in Britain.
"They will probably act
indicates that it expects to add 60 new warships accordingly".-Beuter Special. during the 1939 fiscal year, including two capital, ships, in addition to the seven previously provided for. :
Sally Rand
Chinese Nearing Strategic Centre
of
CHANGTE, Feb. 16. THE SPEARHEAD the Chinese forces counter- attacking Yoyang, on the Canton-Hankow Railway in north Hunan, is only a few miles from the city, accord- ing to field dispatches.
San Francisco. Statistics show that during her various appearances in this city, Sally
a total of 110 started minutes and made speeches for a
The programme includes four large 6-inch gun Rand has danced cruisers, and one aircraft carrier.
Meanwhile, Sir John Simon!
lotal of 206 minutes.
announced in the House of King George V Memorial
Commons
to-day that
the
Government would seek authori- nation to bring the total
authorised borrowing for general ORIGINAL
re-armament to
£800,000,000
over a five-years period, ending.)
In 1942.-United Press.
COST £523,000,000
London, Feb. 13.
SCHEME FOR
COLONY REVISED
GOVERNMENT HAS ABANDONED the original scheme for the provision of the two proposed King George V Memorial Parks in Hongkong, the Telegraph" learns.
In place of the original scheme, |
The defence White Paper Just is- sued shows that the defence esti- mates for 1939-40 will amount to
Commencement of work on £$23,000,000.
which has been shelved for 18 plans for a King George V Memorial Defence expenditure for 1937-38 months after public subserip in Hongkong has been delayed con- was £202,000,000, and in 1938-30.-tions amounting to over $160,-nge of stall.
siderably, it is understood, by short- the current your up to March 31-1000 had been subscribed, plans estimated expenditure, allowing for are now being drawn up for al supplementary estimates, is £388-revised arrangement. 000,000.
WHY DELAY OCCURRED
For This
Is £40,200,000
A Year
THE Minister of Pensions, In
his ainual report stated that Britain's pension bill from the Erout war still costs £40,200,- 000 a year, although it shrinks annually.
There are still 908.700 pen- sioners and their dependants in receipt of grants. Even now, plucteen years after tho Armistice (the report covers to March 31 last), new cases, mostly widows and arphans, ara being added to the pensions list. Thore, were 1,100 new pensions granted last year.
Mr. Ramsbotham saya that among Ex-service men unem- -ployment is 11.5 per cent, com- pared with 13.6 per cent, among Blie general malé population,
The Chinese offensive was HUMPHREYS ESTATE following their recapture of
on February 13, ANNUAL MEETING Yanglowsze, 37 miles north- east of Yoyang.
While a COMPANY'S
strong Chinese column is pressing on Yoyang itself, other columns are attacking Taolin, Hsitang and other points to the southeast.
men to
REQUEST REJECTED
Tree Planting In Argyle Street
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
320 PER ANNUM
from Franco
In smart, colours of Maroon and Brick
$750 ca.
WHITEAWAY'S
JAPAN IS REALLY FEELING PINCH
Bank-Note Fiduciary Issue To Bolster Dwindling Resources
TOKYO, Feb. 16.
JAPAN HAS DECIDED to increase the maximum issue of bank-notes by the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Chosen and the Bank of Taiwan, by 580,000,000 yen.
Creation of this new fiduciary issue has been rendered imperative by the excessive drain on the country's
resources brought about by the unexpected duration of hostilities in China.
Bills providing for the In- creases will be presented by the Government in the current Dist session.
As a result of the decision, the Bank of Japan will increase its note Issue by 500,000,000 yen, the Bank of Chosen by 60,000,000 yen and the Bank of Taiwan by 20,000,000 yen.
These Increases will probably sce
GIBRALTAR DEFENCE SENSATION
Japan flooded with paper money to Four A. A. Guns In
the value of 2,940,000,000 (approxi- mately £181,000,000), since the banks have already Issued bank-notes to the value of 2,360,000,000 yen.
"URGENT EXPEDIENT"
September Crisis
LONDON, Feb. 15.
AT THE TIME of the Septem-
Japanese circles claim that the ber crisis, Gibraltar had only proposed step is not intended to four anti-aircraft guns-two at cope.with currency Inflation for each end of the Rock.
any
extended period, but is an urgent expedient to meet the cur- rent situation.
by General Sir Charles Harington, This startling disclosure was made former Governor of Gibraltar, whose five-year term of office expired Inst October, when he addressed Royal Empire Society to-day.
He said that at the time of the September "China iber crisis, Gibraltar
CHINA WAR-COSTS
Tokyo, Feb. 18. The Extraordinary Military Budget In connection with the Affair," DISAPPOINTMENT AT the will total about 5,000,000,000 yen which newspapers report Government's refusal to line (about £300,000,000), and the sup- Argyle Street with trees near plementary budget to finance the the recently built-up areas was military and naval rearmament pro-
grammes which expressed this morning by Mr.
umount
reportedly will
totally unprepared.
the
Was
Threatened by th hinese attack, the Jananesete call- ing in reinforcement from Chenglingki, on the angtze River, five miles north of Yo-
large force on the Spanish-Moroc- "The French had certainly masaed yang. Meanwhile, they are
can border, and might, quite likely, forcing Chinese able-bodied
have taken Ceuta and Tetuan. help them to
My information was that General strengthen the defences
Franco had wished to remain neutral; will be presented to In July. 1938, the Urban Council
night.
could, but Hat he would use his uppainted a Select Commler to go
It is understood Thus, in the first three years of
bombers from the Spanish nero- The revised sclicme
phreys Estate and Finance Co., Will still into the matter of these Parks and the period in which borrowing utilise the original sites granted by prepare a scheme to be put before the southeast of Yoyang la
Fighting in the districts to itd.
are in progress between the Finance that if the French had taken Ceuta, Ministry and the War powers were to amount to £400,-Government. These are
Mr. Clark revealed that the Gov Ministries regarding the compilation haps naturally, on Gibraltar.
War and Navy he would have ratollated, and per- the old Council. 000,000, the total defence expendi-Government Civil Hospital and its
described as "severe." Yester-ernment had rejected the Company's of the extraordinary budgets. tare la £1,173,000,000,
grounds-the former, which has been Mr. Owen, Architect of the Publie day morning a bitter engage-request to plant trees along the roads The extraordinary budget concern- This takes no account of the com-demolished and a plot of ground at tentative plans.
DIFFERENT NOW used as a refugee centre, is to be Works
or footpaths near their existing pro-ing the China affair will be referred submitted ment took place at Lungwan-perty in Argyle Street and the addi- to the Cabinet Council on February
"I had only four anti-aircraft guns. plementary civil defence expendi- the Junction of Canton arid Jordan Later, after consideration, it was chino, ending with the repulsion tional blocks on which construction24, while the rearmoment budget ture, and relates solely to the navy. Ronds in Kowloon.
deelded that the Public Works of the Japanese, Central News. was to start immediately.
different now. army and air force.
Department should proveed with the
"The ronds are wide and I can see Council on February 25-Domel.
will possibly be submitted to the
Speaking of the events in Spain, The Telegraph" understands that preparation of more detailed Allowing for civil defence expen-
plans
FIGHTING IN HOPEI
Sir Charlos Harington declared that no objection from a truffle point of diture, total expenditure for 1930-40 the extensive and beautiful park prior to letting contracts.
General Franco will turn to Britain scheme which formed the basis fro
Slan, Feb. 10. view," said Mr. Clark. There is no neighbourhood of
the original scheme has been aban- Department in connection with other reveal that cangu.mary
Owing to pressure of work in that? Military despatches received here doubt that the planting of trees
will instal effectivendship; he
machinery of government; doned under the plans now maturing more urgent matters, it
fighting is would greatly add to the amenities
he was "alck to death" of German not raging cast of Anping, in central of what is rapidly developing Into a An additional budget to the ord- and Italian troops, and he will not Modification of the original scheme possible to make any progress with Hopel, where the Chitise defenders first class residential district. inary accounts of the Working Bud be dictated to by either Hitler or will, however, permit a certain she plans.
are offering stiff resistance against
Surveying the year's work, Mr. net providing for amount of shrubbery and trees to be
the attack of 300 Japanese,
revenue of Mussolini. Clark said:
7,839,000 yen and an expenditure of The result of the year's working, 19,805,000 yen and another additional $210,087.28, can be considered satis-budget to the special accounts of the factory. Profits, omitting sale of Working Budget providing for an land, is $20,383,68 beiter than the expenditure of 250,412,000 yen will preceding year, and total net profit, be approved by the Cabinet Couneli is $64,234.85 up,
to-day.
around the city by day and D. E. Clark when presiding at (£60,000 about 1,000,000,000 yes, that Herr Hiller had told him that he the annual meeting of Hum- the Dlet early in t negotiations dromes, and I think li fa quite likely
will be in the
£580,000,000.
Air estimates for 1939 will exceed
£200,000,000.
5 YEAR-PROGRAMME
The White Paper states that the planted on the sites, but these will earlier stages of the five-year de- probably be isolated from the play- fence programme have now been ing grounds until they have reached completed. Industrial capacity has maturity and cannot easily be dam- been largely increased and produc-aged,
tion difficulties largely overcome.
All
three service departments are
How receiving armament stores of of the expansion of the Beet pir- all finds and the latest models in atm.
very forge quantities. Production
NEW CONSTRUCTIONS
Further expansions were an-
Department,
was
Protection Of Interests In Far East
More than 1,000 Japanese with 20 tanks and armoured cars are mussed near Shenhalen, south of Anping. They are reported to be preparing 22 drive southward. Central
fur
News.
SOUTH SHANSI FIGHTING
Yuunku, Feb. 10. London, Feb. 15.
Bitter fighUng has been raging in In view of the increasing acts of south of Kuwo in southern Shansi the eastern suburbs of Klanghsien, aggression by the Japanese naval and since Monday, military against British trade in the
OZL
ADDITIONAL BUDGETS
Tokyo, Feb. 16.
Arsenal.
Anyhow, I am told things are very
for
до
"As things look at the present, it seems to me that the sooner General Franco wins, and German and Italian troopa are removed, the better for the future of Spain and everyone."-Heuter.
LATEST
All our property was fully occu- The defelt amounting to 11,900,- pied during the year, and from March 000 yen in the revenue of the ord- the rent roll was augmented by re-inary additional budget will be cover- ceipts from the 12 additional fats ined with the excess income in the Argyle Street.
Working Budget. NEW FLATS LET
The additional expenditure in the It is proposed to erect a further 12 special account
designed to provide flats on this property inmediately. 100,000 yen for "cultural enterprises These will be forger than the present for China," 15,032,000 yen for the TWO SHOT DEAD ones, and arrangements have already construction of a
noval been completed to lease the entire 174,114,000 yen for railway manage completed, half the avaliable area in for the Governments of the Kwan- block for five years. When these are ment, and n total of 18,785,000 yen
BY ASSASSINS Argyle Street will have been develop- tung Lensed Territory,
Formosa and Saghalien.-Domei A small
Three roamed bungalow|| was built on the triangular lot be tween Humplirey's und Carnarvon Buildings during the year. All mo-, conveniences and appliances were incorporated in the building, which was let at a satisfactory rental immediately upon completion.
dern
wli continue on an increasing scale.nounced in October and November Future plans depend on the world fast for a further increase and) situation, but it is at present im-acceleration in the programme. possible to predict how
Boon the situation will permit a slowing down
During 1930 expansion of the Far East, will the Government forth- The Japanese have hurled a large in armaments production.
RAF. will be continued in accord with denounce the Anglo-Japanese number of tear gas shells over to the ance with these Regarding the navy, it was pro-Reuter.
announcements-¡ trade treaty of 19117 naked Mr. Alan Chinese positions. Tho defenders, Graham in the House of Commons to-however, are steadfastly holding their posed to include Another two
day.
ground. capital ships
the 1930 pre- INCREASED BORROWING
Mr. Butler replied that the Govern- framme, so that altogether there
In northern Shansi, the Japanese | ed. will be nine of these vessels under
London, Feb. 15.
ment was constantly reviewing men-ure driving -simultaneously Sir John Simon announced in the aures best cuiculated to protect British Shengchth, Wutsal, and construction-Heuter.
other im- Interests in the Far East. of Commons House
to-day Ut
portant towns with the objective of Me. Graham asked if it were not cleaning up the borrowing powers for defence pur-
elusive Chinese The 1030 programme will provide poses would be increased from £400,- pateat that all protesta were "In-ruorillas. two new destroyer flotillas, and 20 000,000 to £800,000,000.
effective, and that the only weapon to fast escort vessels of a new type,
produce satisfactory results Intended for the
The Chancellor at the Exchequer sort of retaliatory action" protection of
Mr. Butler said he would not shipping against submarine and air recalled that the Defence Loans Act attracks.
at 1037 authorised borrowing in con- gard that as the only method There will be another aircraft-nation with the re-armament pro-chleving suitable results.-Reuter.
in carrier, making six under construc-ramme to a total of £400,000,000
ANGLO FRENCH on exclusive of the Ark Royalt to the five years from 1937- which is now completed,
to 1941-42, but that it was made
COLLABORATON There will be four large 6-inch unclear at the time of the introduction cruisers, and some smaller vessels. of the Act, that the limit of £400,-
London, Feb. 15. The
During question in the House of modernization of existing 000,009 was by no means final, and if Commons to-day. Mr. R. A. Butler capital ships is proceeding steadily,
conditions required 12, Parlament said that the British and French, and great progress has been made in would be asked to authoriso a mea-governments were in constant com- strengthening the anti-aircraft arm-sure for further borrowing.
munication regarding the most up- tabied to-day which would double on intereste
Accordingly a resolution was being propriate safeguarding of their.com- in the South China the amount which may be raised dur Sons.
ements of other ships.
Equipment of this Army had also
progressed grantly..
AIR FORCE DEFENCES
of
the
The Japanese in Shansi are rebuild- was a ing the damaged sections of the
re-
Tatung-Fuchow Railway.
Work has already been started on $54,000 higher and loans on mortgage The amount invested in property is northern Shansi, The Japanese have Hislenkang-Yatsol section in
Are reduced by $10,000. There will detailed sentries along the railway be a further reduction under this to safeguard the construction against | heading during the current
year. guerilla ralds-Central News.
General reserva, if the proposed allocation of profits available are ap proved, will stand at Ave Lakhs. Other items are similar to last year and do not call for any special com- ment.
tag the five-year period ending 1941-Anglo-French collaboration in order The questioner had suggested
As regards the air force, the became £600,000,000. monthly rate of delivery of aircraft
Assassins In Shanghai
-DIVIDEND APPROVED
The adoption of the report and statement of accounts was proposed by Mr. Clark, seconded by Mr. W. J. Hansen, and agreed to. It was de- alded, to distribute tho balance follows:
Shanghai, Feb. 16, 143, so that the total loan authorised to termlijale, as quickly na possible Mr. Tu Foh, President of the Nantao available for profit and lors
Assassins to-day gravely wounded
in the course of the current financial
the occupation of Hainah, and thus District Court, which to a Japanese- year had been more than doubled, the present was just under £300,- and French possessions and trade in
The expense of re-armament up to remove this menace to both Britishponsored position.
The victim is not expected to re- and would show a further substantisi 000,000, so that the new Bill would the Far EastReuter.
cover. Increase.
Earler, amassine killed Mr. Kao Hung-chao, member of the Japanese water policeUnited Press.
Lined
provide for a further total authority By March 31, the number of first for about £500,000,000, The Bil aircraft would be raised to would follow the same lines as the
44759 in pedrdance with the original 1997 Act, but he proposed to include
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Sir Hughe Sees The King
London, Feb. 15. The King to-day received in au- dience the newly-appointed British Ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugeasen, former Am- bassador to China.
Sir Hughe, with Lady Knatchbull- Hugessen, stayed for luncheon, with the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace--Trans-Ocean.
Another two assassinations report. this altemoon In Shanghai, making. total number of political murders in city since JapaIESE Occupation more than fifty.
To-day's victims were Tu Fol, a Chinese Judge, and Kas Bung-chao, a Chinese detective, bath employed. by Japanew-fostered Chinese regime. They were separately shot dead in the French concessions ·Assaqulay escaped-Reuter.
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200 AMERICAN TANKS Shipload Reported At Rangoon
RANGOON, Fen. 16. Although oficially denied by American authorities, Japanese quarters-claim that 200 tanks of American mineralncture shipped from America for China were unloaded from an American steamer here on Wednesday.
the 1s cargos, confirma Mun
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