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CHUNGKING, Apr. 20. CHINESE officials have wel- comed the reports from. London saying that Chins might be invited to join the anti-aggres- sion front.
Well informed circles declare that this indicates that Britain and France have not yet completely centred their attention on Europe,
Typical comments to-day were: "It is well understood that peace is Indivisible, and war in any area in the world must affect everywhere." be "Pence, to be effective, must world wide."
Some quartera declare that the situation is different in China where war is already raging.
Bring Japan To Knoca
NEW U.S. PROTEST
Restrictions On The Yangtse
WASHINGTON, Apr. 20. ORAL REPRESENTATIONS to the Japanese Government have been made by Mr. Sumner Welles concerning the right of| American citizens in the Upper Yangtse Valley.
Mr. Welles indicated to the Japan- The reality of a combination of a
Ambassador, Mr. Horinouchi, British, French, United States and Russian policy of anti-aggression when the latter called at the State would bring Japan to her knees in Department at Mr. Welles request, the United States Government's dia-; from three to six months,
The policy, they assert, should satisfaction with what he described include an economie embargo against the restrictions on Americana in Japan, refusing to sell her the needed that area.
war goods and refusing to buy:
People Flee
Chenrtu, Apr. 20.
Chengtu is evacuating t surplus population as a measure against possible Japanese-aerial bombings.
According to the evacuation regulations, old and weak, wo- men and children are the first who must leare. Those who have no Important occupations In the city must likewise go to the country.
An unusual rush is already evident along the various ways of exile from the city. There are seven highways linking Chengdu with other provinces or other centres of rural Szechwan. Each bus that leaves Chengtu le crowded with evacuees heading for the countryside Central News.
DELPHINUS INCIDENT
Mr. Welles requested that the rights Chinese Soldier Fires Japanese products, as well as post-missionaries in the Upper Yangtse On British Plane
of States businessmen and
tive aid to China.
Meanwhile official circles assert should be better respected.
that in order to be effective the anti- aggression front must include China, because Japan is included
in
Mr. Cordell Hull later Indicated t press conference that Mr. Joseph
April 21, 1939.
Japanese Influx To Canton Sets Record
CANTON, Apr. 21.
SETTING AN all-time high record, the Japanese popula- tion in Canton has passed the 4,000 mark, it was announced yesterday at the weekly press conference.
Up to the end of March, it was revealed, Japanese subjects in Canton, including Koreans and Formosans but excluding the military, numbered 4,415. The 800 women included 300 relsha girls, waitresses and enter- tainers.
The Japanese population in Canton,
MYSTERY SUBMARINE
it was stated, never at any previous Canadian Warships
time, exceeded 400,
By far the greater number of
Japanese in Canton are following the Ordered To Search
profession of clerks in banks and commercial concerns, namely 1,800,
OTTAWA, Apr. 20.
while at the other extreme, only one THE-Defence Minister, Mr. Japanese is engaged in farming.
| Ian Mackenzie, has announced
Doctors And Nurses
Some 40 Japanese doctors and that four naval vessels have nurses are in the city, as well as been assigned to search for a 14 civil engineers and contractors, mysterious submarine which four teachers, seven monks, and 25 has been reported to be patroll- photographers.
Japanese businesses in Canton ating near Halifax. present are said to include 50 import and export firms, 00 hotels and
restaurants, 10 grocery and general that and the minesweepers
The Deputy Minister has disclosed the destroyers Skeena and
arc at present Gaspe and Fundy patrolling the area. The air base at Dartmouth is also co-operating in the search.
merchandise stores, 18 barber shops, Saguenay seven shipping firms, six trucking and forwarding concerns, and 21 mason- THE R.M.A. Delphinus arrivary and carpentry establishments.
Reuter. Grew, the United States Ambassador, ed in Hongkong carly this the
to Tokyo might raise the mat-morning with bullet holes They cald Japan, Italy and Gerter with the Japanese Government. many act in concert, and me their acts of aggression in accordance with the situation in other parts of the world.
Axia.
Reuter.
Japan's Assurances
Tokyo, Apr. 21. An assurance that Japan does not
lines of de Britain and France should have intend to "extend her A partner in the Far East to help them, ta the event of war, from dissipating their strength first one way and then another, they declare. -United Press.
Japancio Reports Denied
London, Apr. 20. The Japanese press reports int Britain has offered to mediate in the;
have -Sino-Japanese
war
through the starboard wing and No Anschluss
tail fin.
After leaving Fort Bayard
fence" to the Sprattley Islands, which yesterday, bad weather forced Japan recently took over, was given the pilot to turn around, and he by Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, chief of landed on a beach near Kwong- the Admiralty Publicity Bureau.
Reuter.
Apparently under the impres-
He said the islands were useless for chowwan. strategle purposes as they consisted mostly of dangerous reefs, with no facilities for sea or Jand planes.sion that a Japanese plane had Landed, a Chinese soldier in the vicinity fired at the plane with been Le Havre, Apr. 20.-The liner Cham-
plain sailed for New York to-day rifle. The bullet missed one carrying the art treasures and pas- of the petrol tanks by an inch, sengers from the liner Paris.-Reuter. and it is probable that both holes
were made by the one shot.
In S. W. Africa
Union Anticipates German Troubles
The submarine is said to have been hovering in northern waters for more
than a week.
Canadian navy officials admit that They possess information that a sub- marine was sighted 11# stone's throw" from Camperdown, near the wireless station at the mouth of Hallfax harbour.
Rumours that the United States
constguard Champlain was en route
Lo
take
ipated when the
part in the search were dis-. vessel went to Impareyal five malles outside. of the harbour for fuelling purposes. United Press.
Mr.
ENTERED HARBOUR?
WINDHOEK. Apr. 20. FOUR HUNDRED police from the South African Union, armed with a large number of
Ottawa, Apr. 20, Mackenzie. the Canadian Metally denied here-United Press.
Bren guns, and accompanied by four armoured cars, arrived here Defence Minister, states that the Envoy Calls on Wang
to-day in accordance with the utmost vigilance is being exercised scheme for amalgamating the to establish whether the submarine Chungking, Apr. 20.
did, as reported by Captain Latter, South-West African police force veteran Halifax pilot, enter Halifax Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, the
The plane carried two passen-with the Union force.
harbour yesterday. British Ambassador to China, who Affairs, at the Foreign Office at ten arrived here from Kunming by plane o'clock this morning yesterday, called Dr. Want The British envoy's call lasted gers, a Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt, who Chung-hul, Minister Foreign about afteen minutes-Central News. i were bound for Hongkong.
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He said that as yet his department Meanwhile the Germans bere cele-had no confirmation of the report. brated Hitler's birthday by flying Reuter. swastika flags from homes and busi- ness houses. The town otherwise presents a normal appearance, and all is quiet.Reuter.
Won't Bo Returned
Appeal To Incoming Ships
Dalagax, Nova Scotia,
Apr, 20, The Commander of the naval dockyard has requested all inward Cape Town, Apr. 20,
the bound vessels, which passed General Herizon. the Southi African Premier, to-day told Parlia- Halifax pilot boat shortly after mid- ment that he was very strongly night on April 18 and 19, to coin- against the suggestion made by the municate with the authorities in con- nection with the reported movements Nationalist Parly
mysterious submarine.-- German South-West Africa territory of the
Reuter Special. be returned to the Reich.
Ile added: "If the Nationalists back South-West are prepared to : give Africa the sake of peace, I main- tal that the giving up of South- West Africa wonuld mean giving up
that the
former
the Union. We shall defend our citizens. in South-West Africa in the same way as if they lived in the. Union."Trans-Ocean.
"Entraining "Orders
Cancelled
Johannesburg, Apr. 20.
A detachment of 200 members of the South African police force, which was under orders to leave Pretoria this evening for South-West Africa, found at the last minute that the Journey had been cancelled,
The reason given here for this change of plans is that conditions in South-West Africa are not such as to justify the despatch of police rein- forcements.
It was originally intended to, in-: crease the police force in South- West Africa by 500 men-Trans- Occan.
"Will Protect Territory"
Budget Debate Next Week
London, Apr. 20. The debate on the budget, which will be opened-by-the-Chancellor, of. the Exchequer on Tuesday, w lust over Wednesday and Thursday.
In announcing next week's business the Premier promised the Opposition leader to make a further statement on the development of international consultations at the earliest possible moment,-British Wireless,
New Westminster Hospital Opened
London, Apr. 20. The King, accompanied by the £650,000 Queen, opened the new
has Westminster Hospital which been removed from the old sile op- posite Westminster Abbey to else- where in Westminster.
The two children's wings bear the
Cape Town, Apr. 20. "We would flee from South-West Africa just as soon as we would from names respectively of Princess Eliza- the Union," declared General Hert- beth and Princess Margaret Rose.
zog, speaking at the second reading Reuter.
of the South-West Africa Police Bill
In the House of Assembly to-day,
adding: "We will protect the ter
as
ritory nationals."
we
Dr. Malan,
would protect our LONDON. Apr.20.-Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, was re- Opposition leader, ceived in audience by the King at moved a rejection of the Bill on the Buckingham Palace this evening be- ground that amalgamation of the fore His Majesty returned to Wind- police forces of the Union and South-Ser-British Wireless,
West Africa was contrary to the Union's policy of giving more and more self-government to the ter- ritory Reuter Special.
Govt. Camps For School Children
London, Apr. 20. The principle business in the House! of Commons to-day was considera- Govern- tion, in committee, of the ment's camp bill, which facilitates provision of permanent camps for school use in peace time, and evacua- tion purposes in war, through the agency of non-profit making com-) pantes. Brilah Wireless..
Quezon's Visit
To U.S.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 20-Reliable sources here state that President Manuel Quezon will issue a statement] Boon stying that he is unable to go to the United States during this session of Congress, although he may be able to como later in the year-United
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