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The
SECOND EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 101
No. 15850
一拜禮 號九十月六英港香 MONDAY, JUNE 19. 1939. 日三初月五
FIENDISH
SEVEN
Cordon Hall, Tientsin
THE GORDON Memorial Hall in Victoria Road, Tientsin. This hall was named after General Gordon of Khartoum who, eighty year ago next August, necom- panied Lord Elgin's expedition which stormed the Tangku Foris at the entrance of the Halho River and captured Tientsin. General Gordon planned the present British Concession. The British Concession in Tien- tain comprises about 950 acres. The Bund along the river is a splendid esplanade. On it are located the British Consulate, the Chinese Maritime Customs, the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, Tientsin Club, Butterfeld & Swire, Jarding, Matheson's and other fine build- ings.
The French Concession, which adjoins the British Concession, comprises about 250 acres.
LATEST
Aid Democracy, U.S. Urged
SHANGHAI, June 10-in a leader on the Tientsin situation, the "Shang- hal Evening Post", the only Americ newspaper in Shanghai, urges the United States to stand by Britain and France.
The paper warns that American fallure to co-operate, on the technicui grounds that America has no terri torial interest in Tlentsin, will only encourage the Japanese to attempt a sinflar action in Shanghol in the future-Reuter.
Soo Back Pago For Further Lato Nows
Italian Naval Manoeuvres
ROME June 18-The First Naval Squadron under Rear-Admiral Ric- cardly will leave Naples-to-morrow for, & fortnight's exercises off Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
-described - us normal training.
Aromaquadron consists of two battleships, ten erüliers, 20 destroyers, nd rank unknown number of sub-
TORTURE
CHINESE IN
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
$30.00 PER ANNUM
Half a contury of Tyre Leadership
has culminated in the
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2000 tooth
to bite the road!
Ensuring the maximum of comfort, durability and, above all, safoty,"
OF
KILLING
TIENTSIN
EIGHTEEN MEN ROASTED FOR British Girl TRYING TO RUN BLOCKADE Detained By
FORCING THEIR VICTIMS to re-
main in the broiling mid-day sun with Declaration of War,
their
empty kerosene tins tied over their heads, Japanese troops in Tientsin were responsible for one of the most fiendish torture slayings yet brought to light in the current hostilities.
Eighteen Chinese who were seized whilst attempting to enter the British. Concession in Tientsin with foodstuffs were, states a "Central News" message, victims of the torture.
They were stripped of their clothes and forced to kneel naked in the direct heat of the sun, the temperature of which even in the shade has hovered between 90 and 100 degrees for the past five days.
The hands of the eighteen victims were tied behind their naked, backs.
INTENSE AGONY
Then, to complete the torture, the Japanese tied empty kerosene tins over the heads of their victims.
The agony of the sufferers cannot be imagined. The direct rays of the sun heated the tins unbear- ably, and seven of the victims were literally scored to death.
The remaining eleven are suffering a fate that is even worse than death.
Their faces have been baked by the intense heat. They are blinded and, in some instances, completely insane.
The shricks of the victims aroused horror amongst hundreds
of Chinese who watched with sickening horror the torture, and gradual death of their compatriots.
The incident occurred in full view of a queue lined up in Chiushan Street,
The eleven men who did not die were later dragged away, presumably to a merciful death,
REMAINS INCINERATED
:
The remains of the seven victims were dragged to the cremation grounds, where they were incinerated.
Two other Chinese killed by
the Japanese during the week-
Says Noted
Admiral
LONDON, June 18,--Events in Tientsin, with the support given to Japan by Germany and Italy, really amount to 3 declaration of war against the British Empire, and it is a challenge which must be met, declared Admiral Sir Roger Koyos, addressing a parade of A.R.P. volunteers in London to-day.
Japanese H.Q.
A YOUNG BRITISH girl, whose name is at present unrevealed, was severe- ly man-handled by a puppet-Government Chinese policeman at the Racecourse Road exit from the British Concession in Tientsin yesterday afternoon, accord- ing to a special message from the "Bluebeard" London Correspondent of the "Hong-
Admiral Keyes said he was convinced that if Britain was resolute and firm, and showed the whole world that she was ready to enter the struggle, making full use of her wealth. industry and man-power, she could win without a clash of arma.--Reuter,
Inspired By Friends
LONDON, June 18.—Japan is doubtless inspired by her friends in Europe to deliberately and imprudently fout both. Belizin and her own · International obligations, teclared Mr. Arthur Greenwood, the Labour M... speaking at West Bromwich to day
He said that it must be made
clear to the dictatorship and militarist Powers, whether in the East or West, that Britain and the other democracies would not foltrate this organised attempt 10 undermine tho foundations of international law, and to impose the rule of force on the world.
Peace was Imperilled, not be- cause of the desires of the people of Germany, Italy and Japan. but owing to the ambitions of their rulers. Such -ambitions must be curbed.
Mr. Greenwood criticised the polley of the National Govern. ment, to which he ascribed the present threatening attuation.-- Reuter.
Executed
Weidmann Guillotined
In Versaillos
ד'
PARIS, June 19. THE MORBID - MINDED witnessed their last thrill in the_long-drawn-out proceedings
kong Telegraph."
The message states that the girl is believed to have been partially stripped by the policeman, who carried out the assault under the eyes of the Japanese guards. The girl was subjected to foul abuse.
British
According to a "Reuter", message, which confirms against France's biggest the London report, the young English girl was man- murderer since Landru, when handled when she attempted to leave the Eugen Weidmann, self-confessed killer of six people, was publicly Concession to visit a house near the race-course in the guillotined in a beflagged square Japanese Concession. In Versailles to-day.
MAN-STRIPPED NAKED-
The trial of Weidmann and his associates provided specta- tors with the greatest thrills than any previous case within living memory.
Richly-owned women from Paris
KULANGSU and London fought their way into the SITUATION
Negotiations To Be Resumed
*
calmly confess to his callous crimes.
The vanity of Weldmann was amazing, right to the end much of his! "fan mail," was written on dainty
crested
And and perfumed paper, there was a constant attendance of morbid feminine "hero" worshippers. Prison Post Office AMOY, June 19.
"Fan mail" reached such propor- WITH THE return yesterday Itions that a special post office had to of the Japanese Consul-General, be established inside the prison to
handle It. Mr. Uchida, from Tokyo, ne-
The authorities allotted him
"Reuter" also reports that a British man was stripped naked at the same search point.
Several tins of canned foods which he was carrying were prised open with the point of the Japanese sentry's bayonet.
"The two incidents have stiffened the determination of British residents to see the blockade through," states the "Reuter" message.
The blockade took a more threatened turn yesterday when supplies of fresh food were cut off or turned back from the Anglo-French Concessions by machine-gun armed motor-boats patrolling the Haiho River. No craft of any description' are allowed above the former German Concession or below the Italian Concession, between which the British and French Con- cessions lle.
end had a much more merciful New Apparatus totitions for the settlement of secretarial staff numerous enough for BLOCKADE SUCCEEDING
death. They were shot dead as
they were attempting to crawl To Aid Subs.
through the Japanese barbed- wire barricades.
"Central News" reports that the Britain Interested
In Invention
situation In both
the Kulangsu situation will be a Prime Minister to enable to resumed shortly.
complete before his execution.
When asked to disclose the name Rear-Admiral Mido, chief of the of an Englishwoman who had sent Amoy Office of the China Affairs one of these tender missives, without Board, also returned here yesterday, address and signed only by initials, It is understood that Consul-General Weldmann was on his feet, blazing Uchida the British and
has brought with him with Indignation. Frenchi Concessions 15 rapidly
Important Instructions from his home
love when the "I may kill those deteriorating. An ironle feature of
Government regarding the settlement demon in me gets the upper hand, the blockade is that Japanese
negotiations. BELGRADE, June 18.
but I never give them away." citizens and merchants are suffering
One minute he contesacd to the equally with other nationalities, a A NEW äppäratus which, it is Importance attaches to the forth- both the Japanese Concessions have claimed, makes the rescue of Japanese Consul-General, the foreign feet, to retract the avowal and accuse coming negotiations botween the prosecutor that he alone slew a cer- tain victim. Next he was' on his the bulk of the share of the business crews from sunken submarines consular body and the Municipal one of those charged with him. with the isolated foreign nreus,
lying at depths up to 200 Council, which will still centre on the
The food situation in. the British metres, absolutely certain, has five-point Japanese proposal for the Concession is rapidly worsening.
been constructed by a Belgrade reorganization of the International engineer named Dushan Kuz-administrative system. Domel, manowitch.
Blockade Broken
-Bui——the—British authorities-
It is reported that the BritishTMÁd-
succeeded in alleviating the positio: miralty has telegraphed Kuzmanow-
"Accept My Hoad"
Mr. A. E. Tipper, Chairman of the British Municipal Council, admitted that the Japanese river blockade was the most serious step yet taken to starve out the British and French Concessions, He told "Reuter" that the river blockade had proved com- pletely successful.
As a result of the intensification of the blockade, stocks of fresh foodstuffs are almost non-existent in the Concessions now. The refusal of the Japanese to permit blocks of ice to be taken Into the British Concession resulted in the condemnation of a considerable quantity of fresh meat, fish and eggs which was stored in freezing chambers.
There has been a run on British ocean-going ships arrived private homes possessing electric at the British Bund without being refrigerators, and small ice stopped at the Japanese control point
on the Hatho River.. When the presiding judge pressed cubes are fetching fantastic
Consequently, owners are cabling him for an expression of penitence, he prices.
their Shanhgal offices to resume ship- threw up le arms with an air of
The temperature has hovered be-ments of cargo to Tientsin, which bored resignation 800-Year-Old Town "I have already said I am terribly ween. 90 and 100 degrees for were suspended on the advice of the Blightly on Saturday when they
guilty. I offer you all I have to the discomfort of the foreigners British consular authorities. broke the Japanese blockade by itch to go to England to demon-
To Disappear running seven milliary trucks into strate the efficacy of his invention.
U.S. Newspaper. Banned offer: deep remorse and my head. marooned in the two Concessions. the italian Concesion on the other
Both British and French. Admiral-
Accept them, and leave me in peace.
All Powers Affected At the last minute the three other
TIENTSIN, June 18-The Ameri- side of the river, filling them with ties on former occasions declined
MOSCOW, June 10.-The Russian accused developed a new line of de-It is noteworthy in this respect that can owned North China Star has
blockade vegetables, and returning them to adopt a Yugo-Slav invention.-Trans-Government has decided that the 800 fence. They claimed that Weldmann the
Jaalfecting all been banned from the poet since the British Concession.
year-old town of Mologo, on the river had powerful hypnotic gifts, and that nationalities. The American, Nether-Friday last-wook. The trucks were despatched to and
Volga, and its entire neighbourhood, from the Italian Concession under
must be submerged in order to bult Anytiling they may have done was ands, Swiss, Swedish, Norwegian, 1. The publistior of the paper, Mr. armed. escorts provided by the Dur
[a reservoir and power station as when their wills had been completely/German and Danish Consulates, In Charles James & Fort,& from Boston, ham Rifles. The Japanese decided
European countries, are in the discretion was the best part of valour
Ocean.
to
Spain To Join Totalitarians? Rybinsk BURGOS, June 18———Although it The population of Mologa in 1930 and made no efforts to Interfere. *-!) is claimed that the relations between was 6,000,- ^Af the present time a "United - Fross" states that in Spain and Italy are so cordial that flm company is busy taking a film view of the continued interference they could hardly be strengthened by of the town and its cultural treasures with British subjoots, expenkkly any further pact, the possibilty before it Anally disappears beneath Indies, the Brillah Consul General exists that the countries
сод the Volga Trans-Decan,,
in Tionisis, - - hie, Jamieson,..., has cludo a non-aggression pact. watnou all Britials subjects to to Collaboration between
frain from attempting to leave the Spain, It is added, will take the form ------ British *** Concession usilesson of "collaboration between- rtugal The Atlantic matters of extreme" urgency,
ency and Spain, in which
Mr. G. A. Emitii. 15 sul being ship and non-
detained, despite. British protest
mastered by him.”
to the majority of Massachusetts,!) is understood to be these und other drawing the attention of the United States Consulate to this ban...United British Concession and are suffering Preas 3 Die In Fire
with the British and French,Anti-British Campaign ------
1 being felt
relaxing the barrier :: In PROVIDENCE, H. 1., June 18-In children marooned in the Concession. the nightest, lie. Japanese have
thelozapwomen and TIENTSIN, June 19 While: not"
for
a spectacular apartment house fra Under ordinary circumstances they intermined their anil British pro here to-day, 00 persons either jump-deport in mid-Jusfor Peitano, or paganda, and the apanese Dress is ed or fled to safety Three persons other summer resorts in order to carrying out the
Lisbon -June-18 were trapped and apparently burned scope the rightsiri z tramerdeuriumpported by 37 LEEMABATE.
ippór, arrived here to death. Five were sent to hospitals Kits Shoe Run Blockades they are also thing broadcasts for
completing the for serious injuries. A thorough Ships Run Blockade
hours, 80 investigations, has been ordered
#45 @United" Preside
Notwithstanding theeverity of the blockade on fresti food