Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Dictator Who Was Overrioden By His Subordinates
November 28, 1939.
Japanese
NAZI LEADER WANTED Bomb U.S.
PEACE, SAYS BURKHARD
Hoavy Losses In West Front Patrols
NAZIS SEARCH FOR FRENCH POSITIONS
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PARIS, Nov. 27 (UP).—The official night losses, communique said that despite heavy Gorman patrols have been active along the 100- mile front from the Moselle to the Rhine, indica-
ting that they are seeking the exact formation of the French winter quartors.
The French claim that their mobile first line of defence, composed of machine gunners and observers, has inflicted the maximum number of losses on the Nazi forces.
They also claim that not a single French prisoner has been taken in a dozen raids on the German positions.
Western Front Quiet
A High Command communique anys: "In the west there is no activity with the exception of weak artillery fire."
PREMIER'S
SPEECH WELCOMED
Outlines The Spirit Of Real Peace
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1918-1939 (United Press Staff Correspondent.) ON A WORLD WAR BATTLE FIELD, Nov. 21 (UP) (Rused by Field Censor)-Trenches and dua LONDON, Nov. 27, (Reuter). outs constructed by Amerlean troups"Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in in 1918 still exist to-day.
In certain sectors over which the his broadenst yesterday, did not Yanks fought 21 years ago, trench attempt to lay down pence terms lines with devastated forts and ruin-jin detail," says the "Daily Tele- ed villages were left just as they graph." were the day the World War ended.
re-
The Journal itchs: He was con-
One well-known stretch of u gion where more than 500,000 Amer-cerned with the spirit in which any cans fought one of their greatest Peace worth having must be made.
"The definition of peace terms as battles has been preserved as a nu matter for settlement by a world Honal monument und u
u ghostly rc= mainder of the last great war. Winds Congregation of nations goes far be and rains of 21 years have caved the yond any former declaration of the
Allies." trench lines, and supplings as bla ay your arm have grown out shell-torn earth.
of the
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No Imperialistic Aims
PARIS, NOV. 27 (UP).—An exclusivE INTERVIEW BY THE FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT, M. HENRI BERNSTEIN WITH THE FORMER
PUBLISHED
LEAGUE OF NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER
KARL BURKHARDT,
IN THE
PARIS SOIR, AFFIRMED TO-DAY THAT
HITLER WAS PREPARED FOR A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THE DANZIG DISPUTE WHEN MR. BURKHARDT VISITED HIM IN
BREAK OF THIS WAR. BERCHTESGADEN JUST BEFORE THE OUT- Mr. Burkhardt told M.
LLOYD GEORGE SARCASM
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LONDON, Nov. 27, (UP).
Known for his biting tongue as well as his bitter opposition to Mr. Chamber- lain's policies, Mr. Lloyd George recently excelled his own record for sarcasm by remarking, "Perhaps, after all, Mr. Chamberlain was responsible for the Munich bomb outrage, because the explosion was 15 minutes Inte."
"PUT THE SCREWS ON JAPAN"
Bernstein the details of the
first secret session when the league High Commissioner visited Hitler in the latter's Bavarian mountain retreat during the Danzig crisis.
My Solution, Claims Hitler "In the Czech affair, it was I who 4:0 dragged the whole world to solullon," he quoted Hitler ne say- "I could not allow this spear ing. - to be stuck into the side of my Crecho-Slovakis country. Armed
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"I have not the same towards Poland, and I am holding back my followers from any excesses. I do not seek war."
Mr. Burkhardt insisted that when Hitler said these words he had u conviction the Fuehrer was talking sincerely, and followed up the open- ing to plead the cause of Poland und the Allies.
Mr. Burkhardt's Impression
"When I finished and went away," Mr. Burkliardi said, "I kad the impression that perhaps war had been averted."
Outspoken American When M. Bernstein
Editorial
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asked Mr. Burkhardt what, in his opinion, pre- cipitated the Danzig situation, the ¡League Commissioner for Danzig replied; "Honestly, I do not believe that Hitler played the alightest role NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (UP), throughout the Polish situation. The "Manchester Guardian" saysIn an editorial entitled "Put Without doubt those of his coun- En route to the Maginot Line, that the speech should do a great the Screws on Japan" the "Newsellors who wanted, at any price, the plodded through sticky mud over deal to convince opinion abroad that York Daily News" to-day said destruction of Poland, surrounded battlefields in cold driving rain only our pims are not selfish or imperl-
the denunciation of the 1911 and overpowered him." a few miles from a point in the plistic.
The "News Chronicle" says that! Commercial Treaty with, Japan American front lines where I had covered the Armistice and heard the the Prime Minister went far to meet has placed the United States in
the desire both at home and abroad a very strong bargaining posiat last shots of the World War.
for a more precise statement of the sort of Europe that we hope to see tion in the Orient. created when the war is won.
Same Sounds After 21 Years
A few hours later in the Maginot
Line, I was heating the dull slam
Those nims should make clear to
"We should
now
frankly
of German shells after 21 years' in the world that Britain secks only the advise Japan that the price of terval. Again I alithered on clay-creation of a better life for like mud over bleak, denuded sleep- peoples.
in
ing hills where the greatest battle history was fought, where the fate -of-France was decided and....where).
1,050,000 men of both
sides
Washington Reaction
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All continued trade relations will he Japanese withdrawal from the areas they have conquered in
"It is Impossible For Mo To Lose Prestigo” Enriler, In the private conversations Berchtesgaden, Hitler was quoted. as telling Mr. Burkhard!:
"Governments who oppose me are wrong. They must understand it La Impossible for me to lose prestige. I will do anything rather than submit to humiliation. This affair si Danzig
lura bad. England and France are wrong to exelte Poland."
can
M. Bernstein, who visited Geneva Museum exhibition, met Mr. Burk- last summer to visit the Prado hardt the evening before the latter returned to Danzig following a
NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (Router),—— China. were Mr. Chamberlain's specch 39
con- "Let us put the screws on Japan.and killed. No effort has been made tolered in authoritative quarters in do it now while we are in a position
to twist them to the hilt. reconstruct this battlefield or to re- Washington to have done much to
"Let us stand by cur guns in this which clarify the question of objectives for bulld the thriving vlikoges
we get action, even are wore literally wiped out of existence which the Allies
fighting by matter until drawing a distinction between war though we have to go through with Vacation, to face the situation which for il mes.
the editorial de finally led to war. Only Hittle signposts say, "here was und peace nlms, Fleurus" or "there was so-and-to"
our own threat,"
They point out that the Unitedclares, but the debris of villages has crum-] States Administration has expressed Other than these the view that the nation would be bled into the soil.
end the American cemeteries with ready to co-operate in securing O their lillic forests of marble crosses, peaceful world after the war through I found no visible evidence of the trade agreemenis, co-operation in presence of American troops in these disarmament, and by discussing with
other Powers and interests restons
troubled Far Eastern situation.
At Belleau Wood
At Belleau Wood, below the brow; of hill ranges in 13 concentrle semi- circles lie the 2,288 bodies of Amerl- cans killed in that woodland.
the wall of an impressive chapel are) etched the names of 00 whose bodies, were never found or identified.
In the woodland a few sections of
Legislation Sought
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NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (UP).-The American Committee of Non-partici- thegation in Japanese Aggression an-
LICENSING WAR EXPORTS
COLLISION SEQUEL
need renewal of the nation-wide Driver Is Fined $25
public option in support of legislo-
tion which is now pending to restrict
SEQUEL to a motor accident in the sale of war supplies to Japan.
Rond on October 20 They made public a list of sponsors King's including Mr. Henry L. Harriman, when a car crashed head on into a ex-President of the United States stationary Tramway Company lorry Chamber of Commerce and Rear was heard before Mr. Forrest nt Admiral Harry Yarnell, formerly of Central Magistracy this morning, NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (Itcuter).the China Station, who is now retired when the driver, J. M. M. Alves of Macdonnell Rood, was summoned for driving without due care and caution.
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the old trenches are preserved just where the guns are rusting in the According to a "Dow Jones" message cold November zulu. Now and then from Washington, the War Depact- bodies are still unearthed in the sur-ment has tentatively drafted & bill A Lecture entitled "The Universal- rounding countryside by peasants Submissible to Congress at the next ity of Law" will be given by The plowing. A caretaker lives here and session, empowering Government to Rev. Father Casey, S. 1. at 830 p.m. kcepa the beautifully landscaped place the export of certain strategie to-morrow in the Hongkong Univers
materials under
Union Heensing lity A
Assembly grounds neal. American flags hang war dripping in the rain but few visitors aystem.
interested are welcome. come here since the war started.
Except for a few shell scars, the
Room.
town of Chateau Thierry today Families Living On $1.55 A Month
entirely reconstructed and
there is
little to show that here was fought one of the most fotelul battles in 1918.
In the Argonne region, Sainte Menehould, known to so many tens of thousands of Yanks, is again out- wardly a pretty provincial town just! ns It was before the battle.
Clermont, on the Argonne, where the Germans had so many machine- gune etudded in the deep-wooded
:
Appalling Conditions
Revealed By S.P.C
All
The average monthly income of families assisted by the hills, is entirely reconstructed. But Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children, was $1.55 per the earth of the hill is still seeded head, the lowest in the history of the Society states the annual with American shelt fragments and report.
was
on
Mr. C. D'Almada pleaded guilty for Alves, and said he could offer no explanation for the incident. He suggested that a caution would meet the matter, as defendant was in hospital for about a week after the accident, and was not likely to forget the matter in a hurry,
Trame Sub-Inspector Clarke sald Alves was driving along King's Road towards Shaukiwan about 2.20 a.m. when he made a head on collision with the stationary lorry which was parkett two or three feet on the north side of the road. The road was well t and the lorry had its headlights centred on a transformer. Defendant had had a driving licence for about two months.
A fine of $23 was imposed,
NEW "FREEDOM” RADIO STATION
old trees are scarred and mutilated. The lowest average in any one father was dead and whose mother
Verdun Unrecognisable Those thousands of Americans who month was 70 cents per head at had disappeared, had run away from cause of repeated beatings and per- passed through Verdun in the final the Kowloon South Centre in the friends who had adopted her be-
sistent cruelty. days of the war would never re- February.
Some pitiful cases assisted by the
Through the kindness of Major Tells Of Agents In The cognise it as it is to-day. It is re- built on an old model.
Society are revealed in the report.
Brazier, the child was received Into
Krupp Factories sought by the the Salvation Army Home of which The viitasa
which Assistance of Voux,
behalf of she is a
The very happy inmote. American artillery blasted to the Benevolent Society
LONDON, Nov. 27. (Reuter).—The ground so that no wall, not even as a little girl age eight of Indian Society contributes to her mainten
The grandmother has been new German "Freedom" Station came high an a man was left standing, has and Chinese parentage, The father ance. been rebuilt just as it existed before was dying of tuberculosis and the admitted to the Canossian Ilome for on the air on Sunday night.
The announcer said that the spon- 1018.
mother was also ill and out of work the Aged.
station were receiving With the A blind girl aged 13 was found sors of the In my party, visiling the battle-Tho family was destitute. field, were twa Americans-William parents consent the child was regging in the street. On investiga-detailed information from Krupp and Chaplin and Harold Denny-who had moved from har unhealthy environ- tion the Inspector learned that the other factorks through their agents. The announcer said that the stallon been in these scenes as soldiers dur-ment and placed in the Hallan Con- child lived with a blind couple who
forced her to beg and ill-treated her was operating in the Tuhr district Ing the battle. But they had difficul-vent where she is very happy.
by recognising the Inndmark, al- From Cruelty To Kindness it she falled to bring back money.ant entled the station, adopting the. though the group of German six- An old woman of 84, who was The case was reported to the Secretismo of the regular Nazf station.. inch shells which we heard only a sleeping on the streets asked for Lary for Chinese Affairs who placed "Deutschland Sender," adding the few hours later sounded all too assistance behalf of her grand her in a home for the blind without adjective, which he accented, "Frel."
The adjective means "Free." familiar to our ours..
|daughter ogèd six. The child, whose cost to the Society.
Mission
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PEIPING, Nov. 27, (UP). -Japanese planes dropped Two bombs on the American Christian Missionary Alli- ance mission at Sulshan In Szechuen on November 11.
The house was destroyed despite the fact that it pro- minently displayed Ameri can flags.
The American mission- aries were absent at the time of the bombing and no casualties were reported in the Mission.
However, it is reported that 19 Chinese were killed, and many houses nearby were set afire.
SOVIET-JAPAN
RUSSIANS MANNING FRONTIER
Large Concentration Of Troops
TOKYO, Nov. 28, (Domel).- The Soviet Union has not with- drawn the large forces of troops and vast amount of military equipment which were concen- trated in Far Eastern Sibeira during the Nomonhan incident, Lt.-Colonel Yozo Miyama, Japan- ese Military Attache at Moscow, declared upon his return home on Monday on furlough.
There are Indications, however, tist Japan and the Soviet Union will not resort to arms against each other again in settling their differ- ences, and Lt.-Col. Miyama in, an interview with newspapermen at the Korean Army Headquarters at Seoul,
Still Building Defences Although the Nomonhan incident has been closed for two months, In Sovint troops are still engaged constructing defence works along the Far Eastern border, the Army officer continued.
During July, the Siberian Railway was practically devoted to the trans- port of war materials to the Far East. The arms end ammunition which were brought during the sum mer still remain in the Far East,
While Japan should not relax Its vigilance, said the Military Attache, the situation at the present is not nlarming.
"In his opinion; there seem to be-no problems existing between Japan and The Soviet Union which cannot be settled through diplomatie negotin- tions, in fact, there are already signs of a possible rapprochement.
The Soviet press minimized Soviet and Outer Mongol losses in the Nomonhan battle, but foreign observers understand that the Sibe-. rian military hospitals have on their hands at least 10,000 wounded scl- dlers.
LABOUR AND PEACE Determining Voice Essential
the
"TELEGRAPH" STAFF REPORTER HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 27 (Reuter). --At to-day's plenary session of the Labour Conference of American States, the Secretary of the United States Committee of Industrial Organisation. Mr. Carey, pleaded that Labour should have a determining voice in peace after the war.
Mr. Carey said: "If the peace after the war is not like 1010, i will be based so that soetal Justice for all will have a determining voice in it."
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