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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1937.
NANKING AND NORTH CHINA
SOVIET NOTE ON
INTERVENTION
London, To-day.
BID TO BE MADE
TO RESTORE SITUATION
Peiping, To-day.
The Chinese are shortly to make
supreme
The Soviet Government, says effort to retrieve their military position in North the Evening Standard, has
tiers for unrestricted importation of war material.
TENSION HIGH IN OLD CITY
OF JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM, TO-DAY. TENSION PREVAILS IN THE
YOUTHS PERAMBULATING
CLOSE.
"
sent a Note to the non-interven China, according to Japanese reports from Pao-OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM, tion committee demanding open- tingfu, which s ing of the Spanish land fron-has massed 130,000 troops in the vicinity of Shih-YESTERDAY MORNING say that General Chiang Kai-shek WHERE GROUPS OF ARAB
chiachwang, near the border of Hopei and Shansi. FORCED THE BAZAAR TO According to the paper, the Note The reports add that General Chan Chien, Police had a busy time chasing Britain and France from aval Chief of the Nanking General Staff, has been sent pickets and assuring merchants of control of the Spanish coasts, a to Shihchiachwang with an order for General Liu protection. new situation has been created to Chih, the Chinese commander-in-chief, North The new city was not affected.
China, to halt at all costs the Japanese advance in result of strike agitation. Many the Peiping-Hankow Railway zone.
says that owing to withdrawal of
.
the advantage of General Franco.
Consequently in the Soviet view
the entire non-intervention policy
has broken down, and in order to restore equilibrium, Moscow pro- Japanese troops at present are at, poses reopening of the Pyrenees Hsinlo, only 30 miles north frontier.
No information can be obtained of the report in official circles in London-Trans-Ocean.
of
Shihchiachwang, which is strate gically important because it is the junction of the Peiping-Hankow Railway with the line west to Taiyuanfu, the Shansi capital.
H.M.S. HOOD ON Renter PIRACY PATROL
London, To-day.
TEHCHOW FALL CLAIMED
Perping. To-day.
The battle cruiser HMS Hood The Japanese have captured left Malta on Saturday on her Tehchow, in Shantung, 60 mile first voyage through the Mediter-north of the Yellow River, accord- ranean on anti-piracy, vatrol
ing to a Japanese communique.
Simultaneously the destroyers Reuter Basilisk, Boreas, Bulldog, Boadicea and the flotilla leader Kempenfelt, left Gibraltar on a similar patrol- Trans-Ocean.
PORTUGUESE ANNIVERSARY
H.M.S. Seamew is leaving for Macao at three o'clock this after noon, to join in celebrations in the Portuguese Colony to commemorate anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Portugal, which falls to-morrow.
NEW ORDER- TO AMERICAN SHIPPING
Washington, To-day. United States Government-own- ed ships are to follow new routes henceforth and will avoid danger zones in the Chinese and Span- ish conflicts, state Maritime Com- mission officials.
Ships will not enter danger zones unless it is necessary for evacuating refugees-Renter.
BEGGAR'S NEW DEVICE FOR
Climber's Night On GAINING LIVING
Precipice Edge
Tension continues in Jaña as the
Arab shops opened in the morning but closed later under the stress of intimidation.
The port of Jaffa was also closed.
SAFAD TENSION
All Arah shops were closed at Safad, where rifle fire from three sides, was directed at the Jewish quarter of the town but no casual- ties are reported.
The Grand Mufti has issued a proclamation from his self-imposed imprisonment in the Mosque of Omar urging Arabs to return to work-Reuter.
MORE ARRESTS
London, To-day. Arrests of Arabs in Palestine continue, according to press ports.
re-
In addition to five Arab leaders who have been deported, a consider- able number of persons of second- Brokers, clerks, stenographers and ary importance are also being held. other office workers in the city were-Trans-Ocean. A French climber, Dr. Lar-rudely disturbed this morning by rien, was rescued in the Pyrenees the crowing of a cock, and discover- recently after clinging for 24 ed it to be a demonstration by hours to the rock face above a Chinese beggar, Kan Kum. sheer drop of 700ft. His peril- "Cockle-doodle-doo!
2
ous position was the result of a le-doo?" crowed Kan Kum, making fall while returning from Bug-spectators roar with laughter, and Cockle dood-
files of Barade. ard, Tarbes, over the rocky de- Ice-House Street was soon crowded
with people.
Unable to move, he set fire to some paper
in his haversack and dropped it as a signal into The Seamew will remain in the valley, where it was seen by Macao until Thursday.
a shepherd.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
HOUSEHOLD COAL
Revised prices effective from Monday, the 30th. August, 1937, price per metric ton delivered, as follows:-
Peak District.
$28.00
Bowen Road & lower levels
26.00
Kowloon
25.00
Repulse Bay
.29.00
Pokfulum
28.00
Shek-0 & Stanley
29.00
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.
Telephone No. 28023.
TROOPS READY IN: EGYPT
Student Demonstration In Cairo
Cairo, To-day. Kan Kum passed round his hat
Demonstrations of protest by Egyp and soon
collected a number of
tian students against the British coins. Coppers rained also from measures in Palestine were held in the windows of buildings in the 2 medical school here yesterday, vicinity.
when numerous hot-headed orators assured the Palestine Arabs that Apparently well acquainted with they "enjoyed the full support of the appearance of an officer of the freedom." traffic regulations, and also fearing Egyptian youth in their fight for law, Kan Kun kept on the move and proceeded through Queen's
In the meantime, press reports Road and then up Wyndham Street, Egypt are preparing to despatch say that the British authorities in less success. where he crowed several times with reinforcements to Palestine should
the 7,500 British troops already He soon disappeared from the there be central district and is probably now
reserve order. All crowing his way through the Chin- ready to
ese residential needs.
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