Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 29, 1941,
CHIANG KAI-SHEK FOR SUPPRESSING
EXPLAINS NEED FOURTH ARMY
CHUNGKING, Jan. 28 (Reuter). —A lengthy statement by General Chiang Kai-shek on the disbandment of the New Fourth Army (Communist) forces on the south bank of the Yangtse River early this month and a vigorous denial of Japanese. reports of civil war or an unfavourable turn in international events, were contained in an address delivered at yesterday's weekly memorial meeting and released to-night. Referring to reports of civil war the Generalissimo declared that in China to-day there is absolute unanimity of purpose among the people and the armed forces.
Questions of maintenance of war-time discipline and obedien- ce to military discipline have no relation whatever to such n possibility.
Referring to the Powers' assistance to China, the Generalisalino, stated, The record of four years of sympathy; and Assistance from friendly nations has shown them to be uniformly desirous of sewing strict discipline an- In our armies as a means of forced in enhancing efficiency in resistance.
There was never an instance of their being discouraged by our taking the action required, They will recognise the
of any netion in keep- propriety ing with the high standards of sound discipline prevailing in the Chinese armed forces.
Inspiration To Respect
"So far from the effect being un
The
Fleet
Versus
Warplanes
-
Expert's Confidence
In Our Sea Units
(DY "REUTER'S" AIN CORRESPONDENT)
LONDON, Jan. 28-Full con-
the Japanese foolishly attempt to confidence in the continued fighting vey. foreign countries will be in power of the British Fleet was spired with respect for Us by
expressed to-day in the first olmerving our ability to put down lumibordination without hesitation or comment by a high British naval trepidation despite the dificulites at-officer on the air war at sea since tendant un such setion under condl- the Battle of the Straits of Sicily. tions imposed by active prosecution began.
of the war.”
After pointing out that "there is
"Air action will not seriously
no more essential factor required for hamper the power of the Navy victory in resistance titan the rell-so long as you have enough air- able execution of orders und the craft carriers," he said. "Our exercise of discipline." General Chlang stated
the
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measure continued operations in the VICTORY
taken by the Government in regard Mediterranean, despite both the
to the New Fourth Army-were in no German and Italian air forces, way peculiar.
Ilo recalled almitar punishment of prove this. Chinese generals like Han Fu-chu,
"By the very nature of the Fleet's Li Fu-ying and Shih Yu-san. in the, continued netlon, there must be re- past three years for various offences verse is in the case of the cruiser against discipline.
Southampton and the aircraft enrrler Illustrious."
FOR FREE FRENCH
Daring Raid In The Libyan Desert
CATCHING UP ON NEWS-At a railway station some- where in Scotland, Primo Minister Winston Churchill roads a paper while waiting for his train.
Captain Ramsay, M.P., To Stay In Gaol
Denies Being Chosen As Nazi Gauleiter
No Private Feelings
In this officer's view, there is After charging the New Fourth le danger of a capital ship being Army of "attacking a body of com-sunk by a bombing attack, for it is rades in arms, disobedience to ordern, able to take such heavy punishment. IDY GORDON YOUNG, "REUTER'6" and rebellious "gestures,"
the Discussing the relative merits of
CPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) Generalissimo declared, am CH- trusted with power directing the the British and German air action at
CAIRO, Jan. 28. While the British armiles, and if I fail to enforce dis-es, the spokesman contended that in
the Skua, Britain had the finest dive-imperial forces were carrying all cipline with due rigour, yielding to bomber in the world. Skua aircraft before them in their drive along the any private susceptibilities of my sank a German cruiser of the Libyan coast, Free French troops, it own, I become myself a violator of Koenigsberg class at Bergen in April is learned, carried out n daring and discipline and betray all men Oght-last year, thus achieving the first successful raid on u
strategically in- ing at the front.
known success of a major naval unit portant group of oases in the heurt "There would soon be an end of in history in naval warfare. Of 10 of the Libyan desert, resistances and revolution if orders bombs dropped, three found their In the middle of January, a small were permitted to be disobeyed and
mark, which demonstrated the
ac-Free French force, drawn from the discipline unobserved.
The Incident under discussion Furacy of the bombing against crack Camel Corps and equipped also with mechanised transport which had an exceedingly distressing ease of
secretly been assembled behind the military necessity. For be it from
frontier of French Equatorial Africa, me to construe it as a matter for
began a 300-mile journey across the for an attack on the capital of the he said, "it would have been gratification; it was something much bombing might m time become too
desert wuste. They were moving up "If I had accepted that post,"
were using as an air base to keep watch over Free French territories in Equatorial Africa.
Surprise Attack
fense anti-aircraft fre.
Deadly Torpedo Britain recognised that
dive-
Captain Ramsay, M.P., Hitler's alleged nominee as Gauleiter of Scotland, is to stay in jail.
This is the decision of the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges, to whom, it was revealed, he indignantly denied that he was to be Gauleiter.
to be ashamed of, but it was the only expensive and the Admiralty but course possible in the interests of the its faith in the torpedo as naval alronses at Fezzon, which the Italians tronson is nation, and action was reluctantly
takten,
Previous Disobedience "Former cases of dlanbedience on the part of the New Fourth Army and of its clashes with other troops were passed over by me in silence, though
crafts primary weapon for two de cades. The torpedo was more deadly than the bomb as it went for the most vulnerable the
part of a warship-below the waterline.
.
His detention in Brixton Prison under the Defence Re- gulations does not, in the opinion Travelling nearly 100 miles a day, of the Parliamentary Commit- the French force escaped observation from the air and took the Italian tee, constitute a breach of the Carrison completely by surprise. The Privileges of the House of Com- French troops, consisting of soldiers
were 500 strong and the mons.
the Tibesti and Taureg Saharan
Maintenance of this policy had provided a notable success against the Italiens, though it had not been at not indeed for the sake of keeping tributed to the Fleet Air Arm The them secret from foreigners or from attack was carried out in dny the enemy, Such incidenta cannot be and there were no British casual tribes under French officers and non-
from Italian submarines, a depol
Two
and
mutives were, firstly my con- cern for the good name of the troops The and hope for their reform, secondly
of
went to the boltum.
torpedo-carrying aircraft
Ilallans
town, leaving the Free French
to
official report rules that
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Copyright
Resignation
And Czech Assets
LONDON, Jan. 28 (Reuter)—A debate was held this after- noon on the resignation of Mr Robert Boothby, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Food, following the inquiry by the Select Committee into his conduct in connection with Czech assets.
Mr Boothby made a long state-|- ment, declaring that his actiyi- Antonescu. The order includes important thing was to stop, LONDON, Jan. 20 (UF) Shipping but actually praiseworthy. The tics had been not only innocent
can
No Immunity Afier wecks of, close inquiry, dur- We characteristi
of commissioned officers and command- which Captain Ramsay person- ally attended the Commitice and wased by Lt-Col Colonna Dornano, were stated his case, its members are to preserva intact the forces of re-manoeuvrability and in this respect)lly outnumbered. withdraw agreed that as an M.P., he has no|
Nevertheless sistance,
the Swordfish and Albacore types the Italians the New Fourth Army, con-were supreme anywhere in the world. Into the fort in the centre of the immunity from "proventive arrest." tinued to take all manner of arbitrary
The
BELGRADE, Jan. 28 (Reu- Warship Sunk At Bomba action until it has become apparent
destroy at will the aerodrome, hans Rainsay's claim is either the ter).All. Rumanian pass-ports that if it were unchecked China Arm's achievement refers to a bald
I understand that the Fleet
Airga
gara, workshops and other installa-ascer ion of
of a new Parliamentary must be stamped with a special would cease to be worthy of the name offelal announcement of an attack craft on the
tione together with a number of air- privilege or an unjustified extention visa before their owners the nat
nation, that she would be
of sin existing one.
leave the country, according to a to make a
made on August 22. Warships were success ying in the Bomba roadstead in of destruction unhindered throughout immunly from arrest extended
He claimed that M.P.'s privilege of decree issued by General Ion The French und
carried on the work. "In conclusion I have only to say Libyn. One, torpedo z
ub-the day while the enemy remained his kind of case.
the fort. The This ruling of the body of MPs diplomats. French withdrew at work finished, but Lt Col Dornano fell Captain Hamsay's claim to be im- victim to a sniper's bullet.
mune from detention means that ho venting the escape of persons Very few of the French
were wil continue
arrest,
their sharp in the abortive Iron The reasons for the petion taken Guard revolt. by the Home Secretary who ordered), his detention have already been state that Horia Sima, leader of the Press reports received here to-day examined, on appeal, by the Home Iron Guard and Vice-Premier of Office Advisory Committee.
This body could recommenxi, notave Red from Rumania.
Rumania, is now definitely known to variation of the order.
that
my
cock
zank
Shipping Losses
action was dielated solely by marine which was at anchor. Three behind the walls of nighttail, their set up by Parliament to Investigate Presumably it' aims at pre- and that was done, a desire to strengthen the nation's other warships were lying alongside
other.
A second capacity for resistance.
submarine and "The incident is now .entirely gunboat were on the outside and a closed. The problem has been settled depot ship in the middle. Two re-
maining torpedoes crushed into the wounded and they have brought unetei veative to be kept under pre- wanted by the Government for the money going to the Germans and 2 tons and six Allied ships of
08
once and for all, and it no longer re submarine und gunbust, and mains at any shape or form.
result of the explosion, the depot
The conduct of the New Fourth ship also caught fire and sanık. Army and the purishment impoved have no bearing on the status of
other rections of the national forces. JAPANESE RAID
Absolutely no political party issue is Jnvolved."
CHINA'S SAVING CERTIFICATES
ON KWANGSI
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
Á JAPANESE ARMY AIR. BASE
| IN_INDO-CHINA, Ján, 28 (Domel).
* CHUNGKING, Jah. 1 (Central carried out surprise raids on Lung-
chow, News) The campaign for the sala military bases in Kwangsi Province. of National Economy Savings
results since it was launched
gary of the Mukden Incident.
0.
a score of Italian prisoners.
Tri-Pronged Japanese Offensive
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH”
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
£77,000,000 going to the Nazis losses due to enemy action during the past week ending at midnight on His main objectives were to prevent January 19 wero Ave British ships of
$23,440 tons. to secure Its distribution among This is the first time in more than Czech residents in Britain, many of a fortnight that there has been other penniless to-day, whom would otherwise have been than British losses. For the week under review, the Germans claimed "Looking back, the whole un- they sunk 41,000 tons of shipping. sary. A postscript to a letter, a fortunate business seems so unnecen-
Release Hope Goes
Meanwhile the military authorities sentence or two in conversation or The findings of the Committee of arms from the rebels and to have nor my conduct, were all that was Boating mine was observed at 7.10 claim to have made a huge haul of neither facts nor the course of events Master of the steamship Macao, a speech, which could have altered
According to a report made by the Privileges which was concerned recovered 70 lorry-loads of property required, but it never occurred to me this morning in Lat., 22.11 N. and only with Capt. Ranasuly's position as looted by Iron Guards.
Floating Mine
an M.Pinent there is no ground Mother have given 500,000 lel for the
King Michael, and the Queen that they were necessary. Maybe I Long. 114.00 E.
Another formation visiting Ming-in the New Year, Japanese forces evidence.
On one occasion Capt. Ramsay,
A preliminary estimate made to kong and other bases adjacent to the since January 26 have been at interrupted by Mr Attles, the chair- day, the anniversary of the Sino- French Indo-China border scored hits tacking three important groups man, alleged, "this procedure is very Japanese hostilities in Shanghal In 1012, roventa that the total amount it important military objectives of cortificates sold is worth approx All Japanese planes safely, returned of Chinese armies in a three-like the Star Chamber medious.
$250,000,000 (National cur-
mately rency).
The largest amounts are under
to their base.
move
༄།
Japanese Army air units to-day In Anhwei & Honan on which he can secure release.
In the secluded Committee Room fund for the benefit of families of Mingkong, and other Chinese
at Westminster, where nine M.Ps, soldiers killed in the revolt. under Mr. Attlee's chairmanship, Attacking Lungchow, the raiders KWOYANG, Certificates has reaped remarkable machine-gunned about 300 Chinese vince, Jan. 29 (Domei)-Laun of probleins raised by the case, many
General Antoneset is suffering Anhwei Pro-patiently went over the whole range from influenza. September 18 last year, the anniver- tieng also set on fire five guching the first major operation sensational matters came
storages,
in up
King Visits Fighter And Bomber Squadrons King, who is one of the busiest men LONDON, Jan. 28 (Neuler)The cornered simultaneous
"Near Murderer"
in the war effort in Britain, to-day ment
had a long talk with Air Marshal W. from northern and
Asking for the Counlitee's In-Shollo Douglas, Commander-in-Chief dulgence, Capt, Ramsay said: "If you of the Fighter Command, about night southern Honan northwestern had been locked up for 20 hours fighters and the difficulties of Inter Bail atood to have been sold abroad and
Application
|Anhwel,
day in a cell between a murderercepting enemy bombers at night, in Chungking, Yunnan, Kwangtung.
Operating in the Peking-Hankew and a suspected leper for weeks and and Fuklen. In many eltics, the For Hayashi Railway zone, a large column of had been locked up during air raids the Queen,
Fris Majesty Was accompanied by amounts to exceeded the Keswick Shooting Sequel Japanese forces is pushing northward you would not feel at your best."
to smash Goperál
Referring to other men who have Squadron Leader commander of one
The King
talked to SHANGHAI, Jan. 20 (Reuter) in southern Tang En-po's troops|
while another been detained under the Defence Re- of the crack night Bghter squadrons, a young An application for ball was received major column is fighting its way gulations, Captain Tamsay stated: wird told Losses And Thefts
by Mr Horiuch), the Japanese Consul through the Chungking forces under "You have men, many of them inere successful in future, air General, on behalf of Yukichi Hayn General Ho Chu-kud in the north-known to me, who have been kept All this happened in a pilota rest MATUA Wickerson of No. 1 shi, the arrested President of the western sector of Anhwel around in prison for three months without room at an H.A.. fighter station Chatham Path has reported that a Japanese Ratepayers Association, Pehsien, raincoat and a pair of gloves, ng-who
River any charge being made against after a t-days, tour during which shol and wounded Mr W. J banks. gregating $30 in value, were stolen Keswick, Chairman of the
the Municipal concert with th
and Many of them, he said, have been her Majesties visited Ave meras from his car, whiin. It was parked tealion was submitted by Japanese column has started a vigo" use for 20 years..
Jast week.
In the RAF Bomber and southerni
ALU another put in cells which have not been in Fighter Commander Jackson Road of the the Thobhasa Amalgamated Assocla rous drive from the upper reaches of The
Lieut. Col, C. O, Military Hospital has reported the ton of Street Unions and was also the New Yellow River to attack detention was a broach of privilegt, of their recent. Concert at the Penin-
loclaimed that his The
Hongkong Singers, as a result loss of his car. No 4002 between addressed to the Chief of the Japan General Sun Tung-sian's forces on because it meant that his constituents sula Hotel: Supplemented by indry 1.30 p.m. on January 27 and 1.30 p.m. ese Consular Police In whose custody the eastern and northern banks of the "at a time of the greatest need of donations, have now despatched a on January 28 while it was parked Hayashi was placed after the shoot Now Yellow, fovar, in northern Honan their lives were prevented from Draft for 230 to the Lord Mayor of outside, the Hongkong Clubs,
London's "Air, Raid Distress Fund.
amounts baigned for sale.
Ing.
Province,
•
KND
them.".
Captain, also
communicating with him.
dronda
to
"I think we
be
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR VALUE
was thoughtless,
When I disclaimed financial in NANKING, Jan. 28 (Domel)Mr forest to the Chancellor, I was Chu Min-31, newly-appointed Chinese answering his charge that I and my Ambassador to Japan, accompanied Committee were working for pay by Mr Chang Cheng, adviser to the ment. It is not true that I received a Ambassador, left here by air this single penny for anything I sold or afternoon for Tokyo, did with regard to the Czech claims."
high standard. "We have to set a very The Prime Minister moved that mittee's report, which had set a very the House agreed with the Cam-
high standard for the House of Com to that standard. The decision pain to all, especially to me; for Mr mons, and we have to
Boothby has been one of my personal to live up
dimeult friends and supporters at lonely and moments. His departure
breaking business. but I do not think the loss of a highly competent
that polgnancy of our feelinga can in and Industrious man. It is a heart
fluence our course."
means
causes
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