Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 2, 1940.
OF
REPORTED IMMINENT INVASION INDO-CHINA BY JAPANESE DOUBTED
Parleys
go
on
at Vichy *
KUNMING, Sept. 2 (Renter). ----Contradicting lively rumours prevalent here that n Japanese | invasion of Indo-Chinn
İx im-
minent, traveller just arrived by air from Hanoi says that all is quiet and normal thero and that there are no signs of im pending trouble.
Circles in very close Touch with Indo-China lake the view
that these stories should be din credited in the absence of de. Anite information to the cuts- trary, pointing
that
out
negotiations are still going
nt Vichy and for this season the Japanese are not likely in make any move until the outcome known.
Railway Continues
is
The Yunanı Radway is at present running a normal schedule, Chinese exports have been resumed but 1 understand that lide tranh
commenced asiner only a short tim Brits apment
ไมเค
Kranted
Jana Mi
Imports to Chino me vid muli banned but of agerent
pared, the terms of
זון.
being discussed between the Japatorse
aru Intl. Chuon author 1.
It is put led theet the exper
seg from Have to Kumrung
may be resumed its Le
A section of the tran
Trister Cupra Trorativ
Wilt
torn up by the
1 1arka
Forb
syntet getur when tra
11t
rate, rupted, luas texts replival
Foolish Move
att
ו, י
It is consider that Japery wonde be making a fooliste mos-
Se
MA Conditi when diplomata negos atians att ut der way, s by doing so -the Amalit taxive herself
operation
MANGLE E sobir
*
sven under the best amifitions would months and empley Jarge forces that might otherwerd held in reserve for Danes pa such
the East Indies
A the moment Japans as ch
starring verge of mgreind vonCOSMIOTIS supplies
valuabõe thing. crank, subire and uf conrodites which she
I return had great need of flooding that market with hes goročia, thereby getting a a powerful economia
Fras Bray
grip, itereasing political prestige and Renerally preparing the way fur sequent assimilation
Might Be Coatly
11 might prove a erstly mistake for Japan if her hot-headed
forced the government's hand on the Indo-China question, tempted by the
apparent weakness of Indo-China, In
formed the pinion of
observ Pus here.
wware
theu
Of this weakness the Japanese an doubtless wed Mission has been travelling Over rolny and must have made observations which have been repo.1-
edroom might not
The
arth.
the my
Dn the strength of their air
alterafi being Indo-China's weak point, but there is no indication that it would force a rapid decision there any more than in China proper, according to observers.
The French have adequate armend i forces
their troups, Foreign Legiotis
"STRANGE CARGO" IT SURE IS
BIG CIVIL AIR DISASTER
RPECIAL TO THE ·TELEGAPH
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1 (Domei). One of the big- gest disasters in the his- tory of civil aviation in America has claimed 25 lives in Virginia.
A transport plane of the Pennsylvania Central Air Line crushed to earth, kill- ing the entire complement
of 25 aboard.
Among the dead is Senator Ernest Lundeen, of Minnesota.
The four members of the crew, including the air hostess, were also killed.
CHINESE READY
For Invasion Of
Indo-China
High Chinese military and
were
-That's the name of the M.G.M. picture in which Clark Gable and Joan Crawford appear in the scene pictured here. And from
what we've heard, there's plenty more scence like it.
Virulent Attacks On Pope By Newspaper
SPECIAL ΤΟ THE
Rome Outburst
"TELEGRAPH”
ROME. Sept. 1 (UP),—Virulent attacks against the person of Pope Plus are being made in the Rome newspaper "Regima Fascista", organ of the Fascist Party.
21
In the latest of
series of arurrilous attacks, the “Regina freista accused His Holiness The Pope of opposing Father Coughlin's utterances In Ameri ca beenuse the notorious "radin priost" is anti-Jewish and anti- Roosevelt,
Coughlin Defended
Father Coughlin 25 ronderaned by The Vatican bermare be in contrary to Bungeert, because he feels sympathy teas while the Potalitarian regimes and bere satasen fils serine of justice accepla antis Destos cath
the paranormales." prepe
Whed clown A matters of Futher Coughlin has Christran ideals
van RON
WI-
Tame men of the VaturaG Terest Metaselves in polilies and not in the feelings of Jesus Christ "
-The Vaticani seeks to curb bathr Loughlin because of his interference
Ed in profiters
FROM PAGE ONE
Mme.
Chiang In Hongkong?
that Chinese NOLI COM report Madame Chiang Kai-shch avrived in Bonglong from
First Wednesday
It is reported that China's st Lady is en route to Singapore to, where she will travel from Hong" " Kon by alup with cert/keuken of apprevin Mor
1
There who Juve China's War Chest
kle!
(324 clicando vt the Chinese
Government are reported to be pro-
eeding to Manta for the same pur
THESE
DOC. GOEBBELS GABBLES
"The hour of judgment inexorably approaches. "Hitler will choose the decisive hour.
"The Fuehrer will lead to victory."
-Goebbels, gabbling in Kattowitz yesterday.
MEMORY HONOURED
Many At Funeral
Of Mrs. Woods
The
Many friends attended at the Chinese Colonial Chapel, Happy Valley. this morning to pay their last respects to the late Mrs. Maud Woods.
The Rev. J. R. Higgs
the service. officiated at remains are to be cremated.
Besides
the relatives,
The many present included the Hon Mr. S 1. Dodwell, Majat
Champkin, Mi A. K. Dimont, Mr J Anderson. Mr P P Pronklin, Mr G Burnett, Mr SF Chubb, Mr G. G ¡und, Mr. E. Murphy, Mr H A. Lammert, My # Langston, Mr. Noel White, MI LCR Souza, Mr and Mrs
U-BOAT ATTACKS EVACUEE SHIP
dren
FROM PAGE ONE
were
Just
FIR
pened and two more Froups of chil-11 T Buxton. Mr and Mrs. It t
B Hancock, Me later arriving
and Mrs. Jov, Mes N Passmore and cheerful.
the Misses Stone, When the order to take to the honts Passmore,
Mra
other officials have conclud- SUNDAY'S "BAG" ed a conference regarding
IS 22 PLANES French Indo-China, accord-¦ ing to vernacular reports.
Important decisiona arrived at regarding the stepsj
tempts to destroy merodromess China will take in the event of aus
I was given, everyone got safety away Ormiston. Mrs. Beer, Kent, Surrey and Essex.
except the purser, who was totally and Mrs. Spurke. Japanese invasion of the French
Once in the morning and twice in injured when he missed a step enter- Colony.
the afternoon, a hundred or more ing the bout. raiders crussed the Kent coast, and
Ship Did Not Sink three times Fighter Command pilots. In an official announcement, by and anti-aircraft gunners folled the Children's Overseas Reception Board
attacks.
state that although full details are The second raid
day, lacking, it is known that the ship in between noun and I p.m., was the which the children were traveling largcal Over 150 raiders crossed did not sink and the transfer of the the coast and a bomber formation |}ittle evacuees from her to the flew as far as the southern out-rescuing ships, one of which *kirts of London, to be broken up warship, was carried out in perfect by anti-alrerafi Are.
order. Gunners saw that shells bit ut least three out of 12 German bumbers
Dying at 10,000 feet.
It ja reported that further Japanese
have Arrived renforcements
intrapevt at Hazchow
disposal French LONDON ROCKED salive units but they are lacking. BY EXPLOSIONS
and large
mechanised equipment and
war material
reserve i
Nevertheless if driven to extreme measures, the French could put up
a fight, it is anticipated.
"War of Nerver"
The war of nerves"
FROM PAGE ONE
south-western on two hamlets in England early this morning.
Bombs were dropped in the Mid-
Other raiders arc
18 which,
seema, the Japanese bave been wag-
ing hitherto, has been much more lands,
Neither can the disloyalty of the
over
successful and less costly than anarth-west England. military adventure would be.
British planes are retaliating. The Annamite population be counted on air raid alarms were sounded at 12.44 by the Japanese. It is true that... 1.30 a.m. and 3 am, in Berlin.
The Berlin-Radlo reports on these French colonial policy has been
anti-aircraft guns short-sighted and repressive in Indo-Talds: "Our China but it would be too much to blocked the British ralds. presume that the poverty-stricken. "No bombs were dropped within Annamites would give effective atd greater Berlin."
to such an invader as the Japanese
are likely to prove, according
circles familiar with conditions in Lausanne
of the
The third attack was weaker and
dromes.
the
WRB [1
been
()
Prasa- Mr I
MEN. Forbes
Puppet Diplomats
Puppet Chinese diplomats are now
in charge of the Chinese Consulate
General in Takyo,
The Consulate was re-opened on Suturday after being closed and sea- ed for over 21⁄2 yours.
Sun T, a Nanking official, becomes neting Consul-General for "China,"
Hertzog Well Beaten
In Good Health & Spirits SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH LONDON, Sept. 1 (UP),-Over 70
SPECIAL TO THE was confined to the Kent coast aero-landed at a north coast port in good
of the evacuer
"TELEGRAPH" children have
CAPETOWN, Sept. 1 (Domel).- Hertzog's anti-war inotion was over- Single-scat
100 health and spirits. Messerschmitt
"The children whelmingly defeated in the South An officer sald: Bghters dropped bombs. They had been put to this use before but to-day boarded the lifeboats in perfect order. African House of Assembly on Tues- they were used us dive bombers. "There was no punle but some of day.
The motion demanded the im- the kiddies were measlek in the life- boats."
First Official Figures LONDON, Sept. 1 (Reuter)-It is officially announced that 11 enemy aircraft were shot down in this morning's raid.
Reports are not yet avaliable for
the second raid.
Dive Below Barrage SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" to The air raid alarm was sounded at. LONDON, Sept. 1 (Domel) - In Switzerland fifteen Employing new tactics four German minutes before midnight and again bombers participating in a rald on Doing What They Like Tat 12.2 a.m. Planes were heard Croydon Airport to-day left their
have been overhead.
formations and dived beneath, the remarkably successful in exploiting
balloon barrage in an attempt to dive which
bomb their objectives.
the French colony.
So for the Japanese
the state of uncertainty in
·Geneva also had two raid alarms, the French found themselves after one at 11.50 p.m. and another at 12.12
m.m.
-the armistice. Not once but a num- ber of times Japanese planca have Rown over Indo-China territory where defence works are situated and the methodical manner of their fight indicated that they are photo- graphing the area.
Japanese planes have landed on the military air fields at Hanol and
Only slight damage was caused to the air feld.
OVERTHROW FOREIGN RULE SAYS JAPANESE PAPER
SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH"
The torpedo struck the ship mediate opening of peace negotio- after the children had gone to their tons with Germany and Italy.
beds.
The ship did not sink and several rescue rushed to the scene, picking up the? entire complement.
ships, including warships, Nurse loses 40-lbs. of fat in 6 weeks
German Denial SPECIAL TO THE #TELEGRAPH” BERLIN, Sept. 1 (UP)-We have no knowledge of any torpedoing of a British evacuee ship," said authorita- tive Nazi clrcles to-night.
*Germany does not feel ·res- ponsible.
"We announced our attitude when we announced the total blockade of England.
"No exceptions are possible." -
Bandits Kill Two Catholic Priests
Chinese
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY PEIPING, Sept. 2 (UP)-Two Catholic priests, Father Peter and Father Paul Lu, of the Paoting Vicarite, were, diled by
have been allowed to depart in the Japanese Army in Shanghai, called upon all Asiaties to-day: SHANGHAI, Sept. 2 (UP).-The "Sin Shun Pao", organ of inolested. When
the Japanese Mission was to "overthrow foreign rule throughout the Orient." first allowed to proceed to Indo- Chine, Japanese military aircraft The paper condemns the so-called, will not tolerate this malicious aim, bandits last week. frequently brought the so-called "secret treaty between Britain and but will resist it desperately. members of the Mission to Hanoi the United States as being designed "Peuce in the Pacific depends on the buses south of Pasting yo without notifying the French auto "enslave Aalatles permanently." complete elimination of non-Azlatic) Other Chinesó. passengers thorities of their impending arrival. "Japan and ather Asiatle people influences."
wounded.
The bandits machine-gunned three
with pleasant, reducing mesto. Mrs. Francia Rudet, attained nut wester "Other etmedies had failed to reduce me, but DONKORA took of! 40-źba, in 6 weeks. New toy atout patients are seducing the same way " Bonkona, is safe, and bedshẩul, faking off fat the new "*3-stage" way. Taple_sotion. tople speed. Take a Little BonCon daily ZAT BIG MEALS explained in BONKORA package. No dangerous drugu. Don' delay. Get Bonkona to-day. 3
Sofe Agents;
W. S. SHERLY & CO. 20-22 Queen's Rd., C.
METROPOLE HOTEL
were
CENTRAL - CLEAN COMFORTABLE - FIREPROOF
NEW
DESIGNS
IN NECKWEAR
Our reputation for having, the best selection for Ties is so well known that we need not stress it, except to say that we have gathered together the best from the leading manufacturers in London,
There are Cashmere, Palm Beach, Foulard and Poplin Silks in the newest designs
Priced from $4.00 Less 10% cash discount
HANDKERCHIEFS
to match or tono
from $1.50
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
MEN'S WEAR
SPECIALISTS
EVERY MEAL invites another
المال
Te day. hundreds of กก. lightened householders have installed Gas cookers, fitted with Regulo oven heat control With this exclusive CAS feature. successful cooking
5 almost matic It inspires them to Try those difficult" dishes. which everybody likes, but which few people can pre- Pare Successfully The Regulo assures their sur
15
The latest Radiation model in your local gos show- rooms You will be interest ed to sec such features as the High Speed" griller and the glass smooth 'Porcelain surface.
Write, Call or Phone THE HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. Central Showroom--Gloucester Bldg., (Corner of East Arcade). Tel 24704. Kowloon Showroom-240, Nathan Rd., (Corner of Jordan Rd.) Tel. 87341,
Crossword Puzzle
LL0517
ACROSS
Batan
10- RUD AWAT
mennum by LARS MORE48 miles
24-catcal instrumanl
Barock (ollar
11-OT
1a-Parchment coll
Al-Reftand to adedi 21-Lore atro 20reat continent 27-Unit of eight 23-Armored extinder Jar lurral of battleship -Pemale doar
-Mother
35.
of ears -Friend fot 39---Language of Bootab
Highlander 4-Ancient Parstad Colo 43-Puzzl
13-Hearty meat
icotin
Warts
Bade
46-2 Eust
47-musing pleasant
4-City in Mortda
B!--Actly
02-Simglste
650 the back
B114234
BBEN War Minister
-Raidlab conelle
2 3
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
REET CL ARIT
WHCON
एमा
LTRUNK ANE LZON
LIGED TEO!
Undeveloped metal deposite
$7~PORE 64-Procing bots
sa Cots abode
DOWN
-Aquatid bird
That aż ko naived -Performs
Unit of abstraks cofreal 1-Change direction
Habitation of Extimo
Jaw
13-kutopean nation 31-Kind of pear
-New York CAR -Look Esh
13-Maket comfortable 23-Made cicar
26-0 of voter
30. Пером
31--Mikiak#
Food
31-Worker at stone 14-Wide Kwak 17-Made nick H-BLOG
Co-Moisture Al-Bastard
41-
46-Baby's to 48-Accomplished
-Hale voic B0-Decome spotted 62-Drea with care 03-Scheme
B4-Dench 54--Certain 57-Becomer mi 69-Por teas LES el- of tousa 15-Negative Showbr
1--Kind of amphibien -Theological student
(meb
18
70
# 12
16
20
zy
1275
18
17
77
150