FOREIGN
NEW FOR CHINA More Sweeping Gains Claimed
SHANGHAI, May 23. CHINESE REPORTS here state that there are forty foreign pilots of various nationalities at present in the Chinese Air Force.
Half of these, it is claimed, previously fought in the Spanish war on the side of the Republicans.
Other Chinese reports said four Japan- ese planes yesterday bombed Chinghai near the forts guarding the gateway to Ningpo.
Most of the bombs fell near the East Gate but casualties were slight.-United Press.
JAPANESE AIR_RAIDS
A Japanese Air Base, May 23. Outmanoeuvring the Chinese defence forces following the sweeping campaign of "annihilation" in northern Hupeh, Japanese military air forces on Monday carried out a series of mass bombardment on the out- posts of Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, to the southwest of Tungting Lake.
The intense bombing attacks by Japanese air forces on Monday caused heavy losses by the Chinese defences in the undulated area on the Hunan-Kiangsi .border, Army pilots claimed.
The Chinese forces concentrated in the outposts of Changsha include the about eight divisions under general command of General such Yuch, Commander-in-Chief of the Ninth War Zone.
Since the fall of the Wuhan Area last year, the Chinese forces have been busily
ually engaged in strengthening their defences under the supervision instructors. of Soviet
The
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Today Queen Mary 4 days
1906 Lusitania. 6 days
1843
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1816 Sailing ship Courier 40 days
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Regular air mail services across the Atlantic became an accomplished Fact wha yesterday
the 74-pasangar Boaing Yankee Clipper complated the trip in 201 hours. The ac- companying Blue. tration shows the evolution of the clippers from the early days of 1816 when the trana- Atlantic crossing took 40 days up to the present time, when the journey is completed by modern clippers in
■ little over one In 1843 the day. crossing took 15 daya. In 1906 the Lusitania did it In six days. The Queen Mary can complete the trip in four days, but
it has been left to
the Baring Clipper to set the amazing record of a trans- Atlantle crossing in less than two days. Very short- ly these clippers will CAFFY pas.
Jangari.
MacDonald Explains
The Palestine Dilemma
A Moral For
AQUASCUTUM
The League RAINCOATS.
Of Nations
YESTERDAY Britain opposed- Dr. Wellington Koo's plea to the League Council at Geneva for further assistance towards China in her struggle against Japanese aggression,
from
The fellowing story reocived the "United Fress" in Shanghai this morning might well give a moral to the League and her treatment of China.
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The message says that ne- cording to Chinese reports group of Tigers attacked Japanese Patrol in Tungshian, Anhwel, and devoured six Japanese soldiers,
The tigers escaped without loss when the remainder of the Japanese garrison fled instead of stooling the beasta.
Yellow Fever
Potential Menace To H.K
Preventing Its Transmission By Aircraft
London, May 4. Yellow fever, most dreaded of tropical diseases, is at present limited to certain parts of Africa and Amerl- ca. But it is a potenilal menace to Hongkong and to all other countries within nine days' travel by air of areas where is
provalent. At recent
ent meeting of the Rose Institute Industrial Advisory Com mittee, report of which is publish- ed to-day, methods of preventing the transmission of discuse by air- craft were discussed,
Colonel F. P. Mackle said that five diseases were particularly liable to be carried by air. These were small- pox, cholera, plague, typhus and yellow fever. Of these, yellow fever Was to be most dreaded, because it was a dangerous disease and lable to assume epidemle proportions.
Still more important was the fact distribution AVAN that, though its
of Africa and limited to certain parts America, It was a potential menace to other continents as yet untouched. Aircraft might transmit yellow fever by carrying a human being in the in- was six days and there were a further three days during which the patient was infective to the mosquito.
MOSQUITO DANGER This danger was met by rigid in- petion and strict
LONDON, May 22.--Answering | George, who, was Premier in 1917 | constitution, the framing work would /cubation period of the discase, which
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of a purely African mosquito which must have crossed. In recent years apparatus However, an effective from Africa to Brazil.
had recently been devised and was being used successfully. for disinfectation of aircraft in flight
Stock Exchange Weak, Recovers
be a rival to that of the framers of highways, and bridges have been question in the House of Commons assured us of that.
Nevertheless, the authors of the the Indian constitution, but because wrecked, and manifold lines of forti-to-day ou Palestine, Mr. R. A. Butler
but they don it. Mentions have been constructed in the refused to accept the suggestion that Balfour Declaration and mandate did it was dimeult, they must not aban- area as precautions against Japanese the new policy vitally prejudiced not say "Jewish State",
The whole spirit of these arrange- American and Jewish Investments in used a more indefinite expression. onslaughts on Changsha,-Domet,
great scale minority and the Palestine, and he referred to the pro- They recognised that Jewish settlements was that the interests of the vision in the White Paper drawing ment in Palestine
the extent of Palestine should bo CHINESE SUCCESSES
adequately vention for Aerial Navigation and by
the enforcement at
species.
anti- SHANGHAI, May 23,
attention for the need for considera- was an experiment,
which must depend upon certain in- secured, and they should be satisfied mosquito measures at Chinese reports to-day claim that tion of foreign interests.
deliberately
that
they were adequately secured
The second danger was that of the of infect- Chinese troops have cut the Chung-
Initiating the promised debates on calculable factors. So
phrase "National gelang-Kingshan railway after which
tory control of the country. Britaled mosquitoes. certain type of MacDonald they encircled Kingshan 125 miles the Government's Palestine polley, they chose the
and the Homo", which could mean a Jewish fore completely surrendering manda-transmission by neroplanes
had been known to survive mosquito northwest of Hankow after recaptur. Mr. Malcolm
Government wished it were possible State in Palestine, but which also would be satisfied that in the treaty
might mean something very much with Palestine, there was provision long flights in aircraft and, if in- ing several nearby strategic points.
to present the policy under different
for maintaining military alr reports claim several hundred
circumstances. When the House last less.
Not An Empty Land
Bulelent to secure our interests, the decled, could start an epidemic in a
for distant country. Japanese soldiers were annihilated ou debated Palestine, it was hoped that,
That this was no idle fear was of strife, the outskirts of Kingshan after put despite the bitter years
And when the Balfour Declaration use of military facilities such ting up a stiff resistance,
Fighting is also reported to be there was still-u-possibility of some was made. it was said that the de- ports and aerodromes, appropriate
understanding between the Arabs and claration's purpose was to give a consultation on milliary matters, shown by the widespread epidemic of raging on the outskirts of Shuilisten Jews regarding the future, but the people who had no country a country and mutual assistance in case of malaria in Brazil through the agency northwest of Hankow where Chinese hope was dashed, so the Government which had no people. He wished the trouble.
Opposition Amendment troops have reached positions from had come along with its own polley, phrase had been as true as it was
picturesque. Conflict
Mr. Tom Williams, Opposition which they are able to shell the city.
He wished Palestine was on empty The Japanese are cald to be: This presented a most grave head
Of land, su that its bounds were the only Labour, moved on official Opposition walls staunchly defending the city
heart searching problem.
ment proposals to be inconsistent In which the Chinese troops have so far and
It was work of a devoted people who were letter and spirit with the mandato, been unable to breach-United Press, course there were arguments to be limit set to the remarkable creative amendment, declaring the Govern-
presented against the policy. the Royal Commission which visited building a national home,
But Palestine was not empty. In not calculated to secure the peace- CHINESE TROOPS STORMING
Palestine in 1937 which said that the KINGSHAN
conflict which had arisen there be 1918 there was a population of 000,-ful and prosperous development of SHASI, May 23.
occupation for count not be committed pending examina- tion of the proposals by the Mandates Chinese forces are storming King-tween the Jews and Arabs, was not a 000 Arabs, whose ancestors had been Palestine, and that Parliament should
Commission of the League.
London, May 22. shan elty, strategie town about 80 conflict between right and wrong.
Specifying the promises to
Mr. Tom Williams argued that the
Initial nervousness on the London miles northwest of Hankew. In the but a conflict between right and right,
Mac White Paper destroyed the very basis bottle for Lanchtatsi, a point in the That was true. To come to a judge, Mr. MacDonald declared that ment between the claims of two par-
subsc- the market declared that clearly Mr. Balfour end Danzig incidents was quickly outskirts, several hundred Japanesetes in those circumstances, and to he was not referring to the
very troops were annihilated,
rallied, remaining On the Hankow-Ichang highway and arm line of justice between Mahon correspondence, but to a later of the Balfour Declaration. and he Stock Exchange following the week-
When the Balfour Declaration was visualised the possibility of a Jewish dispelled, and
quently Slate. back them was indeed as difficult a task promise. tüken
steady, Chinese have
as the House ever had to perform.
made, he said that it came as a
Wheels of History Yenmenkow and are
Gill-edged holdings were especial- Wamisotsi, and
Churchill, Lord Tumult Of War
shock to the Arab world, so the
"Mr. Winston Assaulting Yungiungho, Yangchia- Japanese
The situation in Palestine was bom British Government sent a messenger chiang and Luchlachai.
Oils were favoured, with Attocks communications between these points in the tumult of war, when the great to Jeddah to explain to Sheriff Milner and President Wilson support-ly strong on renewed demand dis-
that adding
Government's nutions of the earth were engaged in Hussein that the British Governmented this view," declared Mr. Williams, closing a shortage of stock.
on steady buying. have already been severed.
dendly struggle, and were searching looked with favour upon the return counter-attacking
of the Jews to Palestine, and that the scheme turned back the wheels of sharply higher The Japanese are
foundation, Elsewhere changes were small, with history, had no moral
Josses. outnumbering los gains Tenoshi, 88
68 miles nosthwest of Han-around for friends and allies.
and was wholly inconsistent with the Anal There were two people Interested Government was determined that no
of the week-end publication kow, which has been recaptured by
settlement obstacle should be placed in the way the Chinese. One Japanese Division from the point of view of
of this return, but that this would terms of the mandate. It sacrificed
shortage is said have been dispatched there in Palestine the Arabs and Jews,
for relieving the sugar Matter Of Honour
be allowed only so far as it was commoderate Jews and Arabs to an ad- International Sugar Council's mea- caused considerable nervousness with from Hankow.
He pleaded with the House not to Largely on the strength of a pro-patible with the economic and poli-ministrative expediency.
accept Mr. MacDonald's reading of sugar, wth erratic price movements, ing from Tsaoyang, north Hupeh town mise made to them by His Majesty's tical freedom of the existing popula-
Parliament's obligations, which, if Prices in the futures market closed 70 miles north of Chungyang, are Government, each lind played a certion.
accepted, would once more forfeit from threepence to a penny lower trapped in Tahungshan, a hilly regiontain part in the war. Each took cer-
It guerillas. tain risks for the allied cause. This was added that the British the confidence, not only of this coun- compared with Saturday's levels. infested Heavy casualties have been suffered question then was a matter of honour, Government was determined that no try, but all parts of the Empire and Jute was weakle in sympathy with
The good name of Great Britain was people of Palestine should be subject the United States-Reuter.
Wall Street was easy-Reuter by the Japanese-Central News,
involved,
to, another. This was stated by the Suggested Alternativa
Special. The obligations contracted to same Government of which Mr.
London, May 22. JAPANESE SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES
Sir Stafford Cripps, taking part in wards the Jews and Arabs during Balfour was Foreign Secretary, so the war were debts of honour that there could have been no mis- Bian, May 23.
the Palestine debate, suggested that which could not be paid in counter- understanding. Heavy losses have been suffered
Surely, declared Mr. MacDonald, a limited part of Palestine should by the Japanese driving castward from Hanyangchen, south of Yungisi
some quarters during the last these furances meant that a dewish temporarily be set aside as a Jewish in southwest Shanal, DS a result of few days, the Government had been national home in Palesting did not enclave where Jewish self-govern charged with breaking its promises, men dewish State against the ment be allowed to develop, while repeated Chinese ambuscades.
The Government confidently re- wishes of the Arab population. Mr. Arab self-government could be de During a heavy gun duel, neross
MacDonald claimed that the Govern-voloped in the rest of the the Yellow River near Yungisi in pudiated that.
Mr. MacDonald then sympathe ment was acting absolutely consist
the
A number of Japanese troops fee-
with Chinese
ese gun emplacements were scored
also
the
felt coliage.
also keep
No Subjugation
the
If, during the period of elon.
were
The
Calcutta.
sent rate without worse trouble, and Palestine could not be exclusively Mr. Butler paid a tribute to the either a Jewish or an Arab State. statesmanlike attitude of the Arab States' representatives at the London conference, and said he was sure these statesmanlike, qualities would
Reuter.
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MACDONALD EDDY
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south. Shansi direct hits on the Jupati- | ilently denit with the Jewish claims.lently with the pledges made to the an intense development of Arab/assist us in the difficulties ahead.-
economic life was carried on, at the two races' by the Chinese. Two Japanese bat- and afterwards turned to the Arab Jews and the Arabs.
and declared: cuse
"No doubt
Referring to immigration, of which end of ten years the teries were silenced and about 20 physically we could force on the road said the Government standards would be much closer, and
were killed. Japanese gunnera we
Arabs in Palestine any kind of
said it their working together, as rald near During a recent Chinese zal
promise, the Colonial an-Jewish national home, but we could was also charged with a breach of there might be an opportunity of Mr. Noel Baker described the Gov- Fensi, west Hwohsien, the Japan-not do that with any moral justifica-was true that the 'ment soldi ese garrison, numbering more than tion. We must keep our promises to lu 1022 that immigration should not ernment's proposals as a surrender
absorptive to
terrorism, and alleged that the 100, was almost entirely wiped out, the Jews, but we must
exceed the economic
in
Palestine swung into faith with the Arab world."
the disturbances country, but copacity of the Chinese artillery
Italy
and these financed and Promiso To sholling effectively
Jows
Government could not accept 'action,
contended that put Germany. After referring to the promise to declarations a racaning that they Japanese positions on the nearby
News.
the Jewish people, Mr. MacDonald were bound for all tinte, and in all for outside propaganda, Jews mentioned the Balfour letters of 1917 circumstances, to maintain that strict Arabs would live in linrmony,
qualification. Klangsi, May 23.
which declared that the "Government principle,
without
Mr. Butler, replying to the debate, maintained Chinese Ruerilla force attacked must use their utmost endeavours to that principle the Jewish said that the Government
15
seo established a national home for population, grew from 80,000 in 1922 that by bringing both sides In Paler Haishan and Wanshoukung, about
on the Jews in Palestine."
(lo 400,000 to-day.
tine up against certain starts reall- miles southwest of Nanchang.
consider
It had sometimes been suggested,
lies, and showing them that certain Contrary To Mandato Saturday night, infleting able canalties on the Joponeae. A said Mr. MacDonald, that that pro
Summing up, Mr. MacDonald said of their claims were unrealisable, wal miso meant definitely that Palestine bridge cast of Wanshoukung
should become Jewish State, it would be contrary to the mandate we should bring nearer the date of destroyed
following morning a Japanese Certainly the possibility of a Jewish 11 Britain did not begin to work now co-operation and understanding. The arrived in three lorries State was not excluded. It was far towards a self-governing Institution facts were that Immigration could
from excluded, because. Mr. Llyod in Palestine. When it came to the not continue indefinitely at
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