1937-11-29 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 29, 1937

RESISTANCE NOT BROKEN Japanese Military Attache's Admission

Not What It Seems. When a passenger train collided with a goods train on the miniature railway at Bekonscot, the Lilliputian village at Beaconsfield, the result looked disastrous but no serious damage was done and there were no casualties. The railway closed down at the end of the summer season but the other models will be on view throughout the winter. (Fox Copyright).

PAIN OVERCOME BRITISH WAR

IN MATERNITY

Device On View At

DEBT TALKS

Medical Exhibition WITH AMERICA

Between 5,000 and 6,000 doctors

will examine the latest additions to their armoury against pain and dis- ease, af the New Hall of the Royal

Berlin, Saturday. Commenting on rumours that a

Horticultural Society. Westminster, definite settlement of British war where the London Medical Exhibi-debts to the United States tion has opened.

may

be

They will find an inexpensive ap-reached in connection with paratus, no bigger than a suitcase, negotiations for a commercial which, it is claimed, has conquered the pain of child-birth.

agreement, the Cologne "Gazette"

the Central

of

nitrous oxide,

safe quantities to a patient, and

WAR LIKELY TO CONTINUE

LONG AFTER NANKING OCCUPATION

Berlin, To-day.

The resistance of the Chinese armies is not broken, declared the Japanese military attache in Shanghai, Major-General Harada, to the corres- pondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" in Shanghai yesterday.

The General added that even after occupation of Nanking by the Japanese, continuation of the war "would still be not only possible but probable."

He said that the Chinese bad gained time owing to the Japanese advance having been delayed "by the tremendous difficulties of the terrain, which have held up trans- port of ammunition and supplies.”

FORCES REGROUPED

LITVINOFF SAYS

SOVIET RELIES

Hence the Chinese had been ablé ON OWN STRENGTH

to bring up reserves and re-group their forces.

General Harada strongly criti- cised the attitude of General Chiang Kai-shek, and said that the

Leningrad, To-day.

Although faithful to the ideals

Japanese army considered it im- of the League and collective possible to regard him any longer security, the Soviet relies On as China's representative

The Japanese army was prepared to wage the war to the bitter end

SHANGHAI PESSIMISM

Fer own forces, and is ready to defeat any enemy, declared the Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinoff, in The Berlin paper's Shanghai correspondent adds that it is his per- a speech to an election audience in sonal impression that the Japan-Leningrad, where he is nominee for ese army is not disposed to enter the Supreme Council of the Soviet. into negotiations, and concludes

[by saying that international circles M. Litvinoff's speech bristled in Shanghai view the situation with ironic references to the Brus- pessimistically since the danger of sels Conference, and to the weak- international complications is in-ness of democratic countries. creasing daily Trans-Ocean.

DIFFICULTIES IN NORTH CHINA

Tientsin, To-day.

EXHAUSTED ECONOMICALLY

He concluded by stating that the fighting forces of the aggressor countries were united in order to bombard the Comintern, but the aggressors were 90 exhausted economically by the cost of prepar ing war, that they cannot decide upon a long war and therefore seek the

of least resistance. they know that this

"The defensive capacity of the Soviet does not depend on inter- national combinations but on the

The apparatus, which has the ap- observes that any such settlement Activity of Chinese guerillas, he cannot reach our borders.

impossible without the assent

ho are threatening all Japanese of Congress in Washington.

lines of communication, is ad- mitted to have developed into an creating a condition in which, with-granting the American Presi-

The paper says that the law increasingly. serious problem.. out any loss of consciousness, the dent the right to conclude this morning that there is unlike the Red Army's fighting forces,"

A Japanese spokesman said unceasing growth of the might of sense of pain is reduced almost to treaties of commerce, expresslyly to be any large-scale operation

Reuter. nothing.

excludes the right to make any in North China until the Chinese It is already in use at Queen concessions to foreign debtors guerillas have been mastered Charlotte's Hospital, London, after of the United States. which it has been named.

It is claimed that no special skill is required for its use, once it has been set, and it may even be left at the patient's bedside, to be used as required

Any offer made by foreign deb- tors must be laid before Congress.

TOKEN OFFER

The paper believes that Bri- tain, as in 1993 and 1934, will in reply to the usual request made Probably the most startling series

by the United States in December exhibits is concerned with "Aes for the annual war debt instal- thetic Prostheses, or cosmetic arti ment, agree to a token payment, ficial features, for use in cases where thus signifying willingness, surgery is unable to remedy a dis- in principle, to meet her obliga- figurement. Realistic false noses, ears tions.--Trans-Ocean. and eye-sockets, made of sofe plastic

material, are on exhibition.

“All artificial features are made tificial ear is about 20 guineas, but to suit the individual patient,” a de-after the first fitting replacements monstrator explained. "Each piece cost only about 38. each.”

Our Own Correspondent.

NEW RECORD IN GLIDER

Berlin, Saturday.

SAFETY ZONE IN NANKING NOT LIKELY

Shanghai, To-day new world record for gliding Questioned about the proposed was established to-day by Ernst safety zone in Nanking, a Japanese Jachtsman with a two-seater ma-Embassy spokesman said that Gen. chine of novel design

Tang Sheng-chi's "defence Jachtmann, who started from the price statement was "rather dis coast on a flight over the North couraging."

Sea, remained in the air for 14 The question of isolating Hang hours 3 minutes, thus beating the chow from warfare was unse lasts for about three weeks without In photographs the artificaal fea- previous record of 9 houra and it remained up to the

initial cost for an ar- tures can hardly be detected.

Trans-Ocean.

to demilitarise the area.