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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932.

SHANGHAI'S WIRELESS his proposals, with reference to a

STATION.

Out of Action.

Geneva, Yesterday. The League's wireless station reports that the Shanghai sta-) tion has, apparently, been put out of action by bombing, for all at- tempts to restore communica- tion hitherto have failed.- Reuter,

SHANGHAI WAR.

kalapak piden la

(Continued from Page 1.)

SAVING FACES.

Morning Post Opinion.

Round Table Conference, are de-

$180,000,000 LEAVES

pendent upon the cessation of BRITAIN TO-MORROW

to

to

| hostilities, and urging the Baron use his utmost efforts | bring about a termination of the fighting before the meeting of the Assembly to-morrow.-Reuter.

GENEVA MEETING

TO-DAY.

Boncour's Letter to Sato.

Obligation on Credit to America.

TREASURY ORDER WITHDRAWN

mona

Rugby, Yesterday.

The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Rugby, Yesterday.

announced in the House of Com- Arrangements have now been

to-day that arrangements completed at Geneva for a meet- had been completed to meet more ing on Thursday of the Longue than half of the obligation on of Nations Assembly, specially credit to America. He said that i convened to consider the Sino- $180,000,000 of the American credit Japanese dispute.

would be repaid on Friday, thus The President of the League reducing that credit from roughly Council, M. Paul Boncour, in a £40,000,000 to roughly £10,000,000. letter to Baron Sato acknowledg "This repayment is final, lend- London, Yesterday.

ing the receipt of the Japanese ers having consented to return a From the viewpoint of saving acceptance of the Council's pro-proportionate part of one per cent. face, the position has manifestly ional Conference in Shanghai, maturity of the existing bills. posals for an immediate Interna-commission as from the date of improved by the fact of the points out that these proposals The Credit given by French bank- Chinese retreat and Japanese ad- vance, says the Morning Post, were subject to a local arrange-ers is now reduced from roughly since the Chinese are now well ment being made for the cessa- £20,000,000 to roughly $7,000,000. outside the

twenty kilometre adds that the Assembly could Franch credits is represented by The letter The remaining section of these zone, thus fulfilling the geogra-not begin while guns were still Treasury Bills to the value of phical conditions of the propos-roaring in Far East. ed truce. The Chinese may say

roughly £20,000,000 in hands of in- they have not been driven out M. Boncour later.

Baron Sato has arranged to see dividual French holders, and we but have fallen back, while the

have no power to require them to A Press report from Shanghail accept repayment before August." | Japanese may claim that their demand has been fulfilled. There tended by Japanese and Chinese question, said that the time had atates that the Conference at- Mr. Chamberlain, replying to a should be a saving of face in Genevo

representatives was held when the too, for,

to-come when it was safe to with- League Assembly meets it will Howard Kelly's Flagship, H.M.S. the Gold Standard

night nboard Admiral Sir draw the Treasury order, under probably find both sides readier Kent.-British Wireless Service. Act, restricting the purchase by Amendment to heed its behests, which hitherto have had no effect, and Japan may now be induced to consent to a truce which she dic- tated, Reuter.

At the Crossroads.

Geneva, Yesterday,

tion of hostilities.

Refugees Fund.

Handsome Cheque from King's Theatre.

British nationals of foreign ex- change, and that it would be with- drawn with affect from to-night.

As to the question of foreign loans, it was for the authorities: of the City to judge about the issue

"We are at the crossroads, and It is gratifying to be able to of new loans. At present he ima- the decision to go the way of record that, as the result of the gined that they would not com peace or war is squarely before special screenings of popular sider it wise for us to lend pro- us all. There is no

middle films in the King's Theatre yes- miscuously overseas and in that course. If Japan is right, then terday, a cheque for the hand-opinion he would concur.-British militarism and brute force re- some sum of $4,501.70 has been Official Wireless Service.

their sway sume

the sent to the Tung Wah Hospital, affairs of nations. If the new toward the Shanghai Refugees' order is to be preserved, the hour Relief Fund.

over

has struck to defend it. Japan! We are asked to state that Sir stands at the bar of public opin- Shou-son Chow and the Directors lon. Her appeal to arms cannot of the China Entertainment, be reconelled with the new order Land; and Investment Company, of things recorded in the solemn Limited, desire to express their treaties upon which the hope of warm appreciation of public sup- £ civilised world now rests.

aid of this deserving, port in China cannot believe she has com- charity. mitted a blunder by relying on the Covenant which was brought into existence at a cost of ten million dead and thirty million wounded, backed up by fifty-five] nations."

It is with these solemn worda that Dr. Yen (head of the Chin- ese Delegation in Geneva) con- cludes the explanatory state ment, with full documentation, submitted to the Council of the League in compliance with Arti- cle XV of the Covenant, which was distributed to the Press to- day.

The Japanese Delegation, also, has handed in a statement this afternoon, but they make a fine! distinction by calling it an ex- planatory memorandum by way of emphasising that the legality of the application of Article XV

is not acknowledged.

The Japanese memorandum has not yet been published.

M. Boncour Writes to

Baron Sato.

M. Boncour has written to Baron Sato pointing out that),

BAYER

BAYER

長

FOGGY MORNING.

The Royal Observatory's re- port jasped this morning states:-

The anti-cyclone is central to the S.W of Nagasaki, mov- ing slowly Eastward,

Forecast: N.E. or variable winds, light to moderate; fair generally, local fog in morning.

Rainfall,

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day ail. Total since January 1-2.53 inches against an average of 3.35 inches-deficit 82 inch.

Temperature.

Hong Kong Macao

58

58

Pratas Island

68

Manila

72

Foochow

52

Amoy

54

Chefoo

31

Shanghai

38

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A possible clue to the baby's whereabouts has been found in the shape of a child's jacket which would have fitted the baby. The jacket was discovered by the roadside in Portland, Pennsyl vania.-Reuter's American Ser

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