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DRAMATIC KOWLOON SIT-DOWN STRIKE

Thousand Workers Shut Themselves Inside Factory

WAR OFFICE

DEMANDS

RADICAL CHINA SOLUTION

Tokyo, Today.

"Up to now the North China and Kiangnan areas, as far as Nan- king, have fallen into Japanese hands.

Negotiations Over ZEISS-INQUART Wall: Women BERLIN FLIGHT

Supply Food

Hong Kong's first demonstration of a sit-down

RUMOURS

Berlin, To-day.

strike developed this morning with dramatic The Austrian Minister of the suddenness, when one thousand employees of Interior, Herr Zeiss-laquart, and the Chung Hwa Book Company, at Ma Tau Wai other Austrian Nazi leaders, flew declared a lightning strike at 9 am, barricaded to Berlin by special plane on Wed themselves inside the compound and refusednesday night to discuss the situa to allow anyone in or out.

tion raised by the plebiscite with

A strong warning against exces- sive eagerness to end the China Incident before a radical solution of the problems involved, is voiced in a War Office pamphlet in com Three detachments of the Police Emergency Unit, memoration of Army Day.

rushed to the area, found themselves virtually helpless in the face of a unique situation. A cordon was thrown round the works and efforts were made to persuade the strikers tol negotiate their grievances in more peaceful manner, but their overtures were rejected. With its enormous population Round the walls and over the gates of the factory is a heavy barbed wire obstruction, placing the strikers at a strategic advantage.

"These areas, however, make up only a section of Chinese territory still under the control of the Na- tional Government.

and

an area many times larger

than Japan's, China, not being a modern state, seems to be suffering

modern state, in spite of severity of losses both in men and money.

less acutely than a fully developed Inside, the strikers' pickets were preventing the manager, Mr. K. C. Chow, and Mr. W Rawitz, understood to be connected with Siemens China Limited, from leaving the premises.

CONSPIRACY AGAINST JAPAN

It is understood that the strike is "Because of these circumstances, occasioned by a demand for higher China still plans long-term war-wages, and is the second dispute be- fare, even after the fall of

tween the employees and the firm to Nanking.

occur in recent weeks.

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"China is also receiving war supplies from a number of foreign powers which are anxious to safe- guard their interests and weaken Japan by protracting the National Government's resistance.

“There seems to be a conspiracy

Over a thousand men are affected,

nearly all of them being Shanghai men. The company is a Shanghai company, the Ma Tan Wai works be- ing a branch of the main concern.

GATES PICKETED

The down-tools signal came as to reduce the strength of the complete surprise and was Japanese Empire, and it is well by a swift rush to and closing known that the activities of the the gates and the replacement Soviet behind the scenes. in China the police watchmen inside by are an important factor in the

strikers pickets, the remainder plot" Renter.

the strikers, assembling in the pound inside the San Cham gate

SF RAIDS

CHINESE RAIDS IN SHANSI

Shanghai, To-day.

Assistant Superintendent of Fo lice R. H. E. Marks, Divisional Inspector A. E. Carey and other

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A fleet of Chinese planes raid CHIANG'S TRIP

the Japanese in south-west

Shansi yesterday afterno causing considerable damage.

Hankow, To-day. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek few

Thirty-five Japanese troops to the Tungkwan area yesterday

were among the wounded and

killed Our Own Correspon dent

and visited all military position: on the Lung-Hai Line Own Correspondent.

Herr Hitler, says a rumour here.

Official German quarters neither deny nor confirm the re- ports which have spread like wildfire through the city.

It is stated that the

steps to be taken were dis-

the cussed at length with Fuehrer and that Herr Zeiss-

Inquart flew back to Vienna

last evening.

That Herr Zeiss-Inquart will

confer with Dr. Schuschnigg and

that an official announcement on

the Nazi attitude towards the latest developments will soon be Forthcoming, is expected in poli- tical circles here Trans-Ocean.

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