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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
CANADA'S POSITION
AT THE GATES
OF PARIS
(Continued from Page 4.)
front each mare terribly significant than the last, this placid and
un.
May Be More Useful As ruffled existence was singularly rest-
"Sleeping Partner”
September 7, 1939.
Japan And Russia
Soviet Aeroplanes Brought Down
ful. Here we were within sense und sound of two grent armies at grips Ottawa, Sept. G.
with one another, yet it was difficult Canada has rushed completion of abnormal was afoot.
to believe that anything exciting or
Hainking, Sept. 6. preparations whereby she will stand asleep.
Paris
seemed Subconsciously every
With the onslaughts of the invad- at Britain's alde.
was waiting for the storm to break, having been effectively checked by Observers speculate on the form
one ing Soviet and Outer Mongal forces her nssistance will take.
Бць, ов It happens In moments of the combined Japanese and Man- The proclamation at Washington frat crisis, time seemed to be stand-chukuo forces, a lull began once again naming the countries at war omitted over the fate of man as they weighed
ing still, while the goda pondered to Canada. Some sources believe that it in the balance.
prevail along the border front near Nomonhan on September 2. a formal declaration of war might not be made by Canada Immediately no hint of Parts being cut off from units of the Soviet and Outer Mongel
The best slan, was that there was three divisions of the
Field reports claim that about.
mechanised In order to continue the import of the coast. The Germans had occu- forces, including some 10,000 men United States
Imunitions for defence, including pied.
It is understood that as long as Canada refrained from belligerent action she could import anything she desired.
The problem of sending troops to Britain might be circumvented by making enlistments directly into the British regiments rather than sending a Canadian army overseas.-United Press.
No Profiteering
London, Sept, 5. The Canadian Ministry of Labour announces that the Prices and Trade Board will have certain powers to prevent profiteering in necessities in Cannda-Reuter,
German Evacuation
Canton Residents
For Macao
Shanghai, Sept. 6. About 150 Germans in Shanghai are all in the French Concession, many belog non-Nazi Aryans. They are permitted to carry on normal business.
Germans are unable to leave as German liners are not calling. Some residents are engaged in buying raw materials such as antimony from China.
Germans have left the British and French Concessions at Shameen and will leave to-day for Macao, A confirmed
ntena,
, but they had not reached who attempted to cross the border, the
What they were doing we have been held up near the Balshagar the official news could not
not understand. Then came and Nolo heights. moving away from Paris, and at Inst tanks have been disabled by Japanese
that they were
Over 250 Soviet and Outer_Mongol It dawned on us that the
assault for which we had been waiting in dread came rumours of the rice. Then that a big battle was going on near greengrocer and the milkman had it Meaux, only 16 miles away. The fort at Claye had fired its The Germans had bull: a bridge
was not going to take
guns.
units
encountered
artillery fire and abandoned on the feld.
Japanese alr The
The Japanese fighters succeeded in about 80 Soviet and Outer Mongol planes over the border on Monday. bringing down 22 of the enemy craft. One Japanese plane crashed Domei, Japan's Armaments.
Shanghai, Sept. 0. Manufacture Things
armamenta of
In were going well, so they said. Theal Japan is subject to decrease and de- another report passed from mouth to lay owing to the difficulty of securing mouth. All the inxicabs, it was raw materials from Europe and said, had been taken to rush troops Amerlea, which now have to pre- to the front-requisitioned in the sent their resources. street-the police had done it by Many countries in Europe and
Beross the Marne; it had been des troyed by gunfire, and hundreds of them had been drowned.
and
order from Gallient's headquarters. Amerlen have banned the export of It was true; not a taxi was to bej steel, oil, вегар fron, colton found. Things were evidently getting intperals.-International hot out there.
Ban On Speculation
THE BATTLE WON
Tokyo, Sept. 0. The Ministry of Finance and the Next morning the writer and on- Ministry of Commerce and Industry other British Journalist obtained
will to-day lasue a joint statement pass to go from Paris to Dijon by warning all banking institutions car. We had no intention of going to against extension of funds for Dijon. That was merely a device to speculative purposes.
Once gates.
well get outside the away from Paris, the big Rolls- authorities have decided to invoke ly, by a series of minor stratagems of unscrupulous speculation Royce was turned north, and present- Article XI regulating funds in case and a stroke or two of good luck,
It is understood that Government
con-
we found ourselves on the hills above Doing despite the ometal warning.
Meaux.
Here the situation was plain glance. The fields all around were ittered with the debris of a day-old battle. Riftes, entrenching tools, bits of equipment, lay about the roads. and here and there the dead of
Itailan residents are also preparing to leave. There are only two or three Italians, apart from the consu late staff, but many are engaged in missionary work in Shlukwan- International.
vernacular report says many of those brave time bodies!
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Tientsin Position
Tientsin, Sept. 6.
four days before. But the battle had who had marched
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Kwangtung War
Japanese Strength In East River
Yungyun, Sept. 8.
were
A part of the Japanese retired to
and the Infantry could be seen through Bold-glasses going steadily forward. Down in the valley below, Blas Bay area has resulted in the The Chinese counter-attack in the The British Concession authorities Umousine with the drowned bodies of recapture of many points, including
half-submerged in the river, lay have decided to seize the property of German nationals in the Concession three German officers. It was ob- Kweichung, Lamlin, Wongkong, and pending termination of the European viously a patrol which had attempted Kalla
Kaltau. Over 200 Japanese killed, a during reconnaissance on the flank Business transactions between of the Allied Army, and had met its their warships in the bay while others British
and German Interests in fate the night before trying to rejoin Tientsin were immediately suspend the German forces. The car had tried fled to Pukut and Shataukok.
with the British declaration of to cross the Marne by a bridge which Samshul heavily shelled the Chinese Japanese batteries at Mahow near war against Germany. British au-
been blown up, and had plunged positions yesterday morning. The thorities announced that no personal straight into the river. That little cannonading was clearly audible in molestation would be permitted
seemed to us to embody the|
Shiuhing, against Germon residents.-Reuter.
of the whole German cam- In the paign.
Tsungfa sector 3,000 Japanese pushed northward from The official bullelins, telling of the prisoners and guns captured, and the Shenkong and Taipingchong to Kal- Inter- enerny's precipitate retreat to the how on Monday. They were Alene, came days later, and the im-cepted by Chinese self-defence corps.
-Central News. portance of the victory of the Murne was only gradually revealed, hut, meanwhile, "ail Paris Imew by in- stinct that France was saved, and woke from its spell.
LATE NEWS
HONGKONG ESTATES
Japancic Casualties
Shiulcwan, Sept. 0. Nearly 800 Japanese troops are re- ported to have been either killed or wounded south of Tsungfa last week. --Wah Kiu Yat Po.
East River Fighting
Walchow, Sept. 8.
Hongkong citate sworn under $42,090 was left by the late Mr.
Fighting between the Japanese and Herbert Alfred John Macray, who guerillas continues at Tungkun, Shcke died at Kensington, Middlesex, on lung, Namiau and Shumchun, accord- April 30. An application by Mr. G.
G. N. Tinson for sealing certified are
ing to Chinese reports. The Japanese recruiting Chinese troops nt copy of probate of the will, has been Namtau, Shumchun and Tungkun, granted.
paying the Chinese a monthly re- Dorothy numeration of $20.
late Mra. Enid
on
Dubery, who died intestato at King's Five hundred Japanese were rush- College Hospital, Camberwell, Lon-ed to Sheklung from Shektan, don, on January 12, left Hongkong Saturday, while two hundred fresh catate swor under $500. An ap- troops were also dispatched from plication by Mr. R. A. Wadegon for Bocca Tigris to Tungkum along the sealing letters of administration of Tungkun-Talping highway, Wan the estate has been granted,
Kiu Yat Po.
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