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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932.

WAR NEWS.

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JAPANESE BIG PUSH. HELD UP.

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(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, (10.30 a.m.), To-day.

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.

Budgetary Limitation.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S VIEWS.

Rugby, Yesterday.

The General Committee of the Disarmament Conference will meet on Wednesday in Geneva under the

derson.

The new French Prime Minister, Monsieur Tardieu, has informed

his intention of being present.

Chinese aerial operations are being greatly Chairmanship of Mr. Arthur Hen- handicapped by the virtual destruction of their im- portant air bases at Hungjao and Soochow.

The big Japanese push has been brought the British Foreign Secretary of practically to a standstill by the strong Chinese en- It is understood Signor Grandl trenchments which are proving a formidable im- and Heads of several other Delega- pediment to the Japanese, who are now content to tions will also attend. consolidate their positions and thereafter rest pre-absence of the Prime Minister, is paratory to a fresh general drive.

Sir John

Siman who, in the

acting as head of the British De-

London this afternoon for Geneva,

Desultory firing is going on in Chapei, when legation to the Conference, left fires have destroyed the whole terraces of houses in and will be present. He will re- the northern areas. The footpaths are carpeted main in Switzerland until after the with fragments of glass from shattered windows. special meeting on March 3 of the

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST U.S. BANKERS AND

MUNITIONS' MANUFACTURERS

AIDING JAPAN AT CHINA'S EXPENSE,

League Assembly which has been called to consider the Sino-Japanese situation.

It is anticipated that the highly important debates on political issues which will come before the Con- ference, will take place in this General Committee. including, for example, security questions raised by the French memorandum.

The work of the whole Confer- lence will be co-ordinated by the fact, that the President is Chairman of this General Committee.

Charges that United States' munition manufacturers and bankers have aided Japan against the Chinese, were made in the House of Representatives at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Other Committees that will, pro- Committee by Mr. Paul Linebarger of Washington, who, describ-bably, be set up by the Disarmament ing himself as legal adviser to the Chinese National Govern- ment, said that $181,000,000 worth of munitions had recently been sold to Janan with the assistance of U.S. bankers. He added that he had been unable to obtain similar aid for China. Reuter's American Service.

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Conference will provide work for specialista on land, sea and air

will consider the question of reduc- armaments, and another committes

tion of armaments by means of budgetary limitation.

The view of the British Govern-

Washington, Yesterday, The Correspondent adds that According to the Correspon- the State Department has refus-ment, in regard to budgetary dent of the "Baltimore Sun," the ed to furnish figures of U.S.limitation, is that it should afford result of the informal discussions shipments of munitions to

B valuable crosscheck on between the State Department Japan.

other methods of limitation, although it and Anglo-French Governments The State Department's atti- is, that it has been agreed to dis- tude, the Correspondent says, is ed factors would have to be ad- is recognised that many complicat- courage, all Parliamentary dis- causing speculation in view of justed for cassion of sales of munitions to the fact that it had previously Conscript armies, for example, are в ргорет working. China and Japan,

been reported to be in favour of

professional armies, and considera-

taken into account.

The Correspondent also de enforcing economic pressure-on less expensive to maintain than clares that the Foreign Affairs Japan. Committee of the House of Re- It is reported from Hopell, ions of this kind must obviously be presentatives has decided not to Virginia, that five are load- hold a public hearing of the re- ing nitrate for Japan. also that On the other hand, budgetary solution authorising the Presi- munition works in France and limitation affords a useful means dent to place an embargo on Czecho-Slovakia are reported of restricting certain kinds shipments of munitions to bel- here to be making large sales to armaments such, for instance, as ligerents.

the ao-called pocket Japan.

THE KING PRESENTS TO C.P.O. WILLIS

THE ALBERT MEDAL.

Rugby, Yesterday.

The King held the Brst investiture of the year at Huckingham Palace to-day.

Among those decorated was Chief Petty Officer Willis, who received the Albert Medal for great heroism displayed in the |“Poseidon” Submarine disaster.

After the ceremony C. P. O. Willis had a private audience of

the King, who talked with him for several minutes.

of

battleship which, although it might conform to tonnage and other material limita-| tions, is expensive to build.

The British Govertiment is ap proaching, the work of the Die- armament Conference with a deter- mination to achieve the largest possible measure of success,

and would regard it as a great misfor- tune if it failed to achieve concrete. results-British Wireless Service.

A GALLANT ACTION.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

In the orders of the day, Gen- [eral Uyeda praises' the self- sacrifice of three Japanese pri vates, who, acting as human

A large crowd cheered Willis as he left the Palace. The Official description of his deed recalls how, in the dark-bombs by binding high explo ness of the sunken and slowly flooding submarine, he ordered men tosives with their bodies, flung put on their escape apparatus, kept up their spirits, and, by his cool themselves upon the Chinese ress, confidence, ability and power of command in a desperate situa- | barbed-wire defences, clearing a tion_saved many lives. British Wireless Service.

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