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SOVIET MEETING

AND

JAPANESE

AT CHANGKUFENG

Discussion Held Last Night South Of Disputed Hill

FURTHER MEETING

MEETING-PROMOTING

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ARRANGED

Moscow, To-day.

The first meeting of the military representatives of both sides to ascertain the position of the So- viet and Japanese troops, was held south of Changkufeng Hill yesterday evening, says an official communique.

Another meeting will be held to-day.

The communique announcing the armistice was published by the Moscow press without com- ment.

Indignant resolutions, passed

by various organisations, con-

tinue to appear, but they are less JAPAN'S LOSSES

numerous and crowded, off the front pages by the news about the Supreme Council,

With receipt of information of the actual cessation of hostilities, the feeling of tension has been, greatly eased.

Observers here regard the compromise as a skilful one since it enabled both sides to end the 13-day miniature Soviet- Japanese war without abandon- ment of principles. Reuter.

GERMAN COMMENT

Berlin, To-day. The report of the armistice on the Soviet-Manchukuo frontier is welcomed in German political cir-} cles.

IN YANGTSE

Hankow, To-day.

CAUSE OF PEACE

-London, August 11. The well-known British pacifist and Labour member, Mr. George Lansbury, who visited the Fuehr- er and Musso.ini some months ago is about to leave here for Bul- garia, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Hungary, where he will meet the leading statesmen of the countries with whom he will seek to promote the cause of peace. Ocean.

Trans-

CARRIED WOMAN

TO SIDE OF ROAD AND DROVE OFF

Two hit and run incidents. cured yesterday.

OC-

TRAFFIC CASES IN KOWLOON

A number of private motor car and motor cycle owners were sum→ moned at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning before Mr. Q.-A. A. Macfadyen for traffic offences.

Mrs. J. B. Monkman, of No. 29, Humphreys Building, was fined $5 for leaving her car unattended op- posite the car park in Gascoigne Road.

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The same fine was imposed on Mrs. B. D. Akroyd, No. 8, Ho Mun- tin Hill, for obstruction, near the Dairy Farm, in Nathan Road, on

July 11, by parking her car' 20 feet

from a bus stop.

For failing to maintain a com-

mercial lorry, in a proper sta

state of repair to the satisfaction of the police, Stark, of the Hong Kong Mines, was fined $10.

As the result of a complaint made Three Japanese warships were Mo Tak, aged 67, a hawker, was by Dr. F. H. Kew, who stated that sunk and five more badly disabled knocked down by a lorry which did Dr. Y. K. Wong was fined $20 for by bombs dropped by Chinese air- not stop, in Queen's Road west yes- driving without due care and cau- men during raid on the concentra-terday. He was admitted to the tion. tion of war vessels near Kiukiang Queen Mary Hospital suffering For failing to show a front light yesterday.

from injuries to the leg and face. on his motor-cycle while driving The ships hit were seen to catch An unknown motor car knocked in Nathan Road on July 8 at 9.50 fire. Three of them were later re-down Lo Sin, aged 70, in Queen's p.m., Mr. E. Lopes, of No. ported to have sunk, Central Road yesterday.

The driver car- Prince Edward Road, was News.

ried the injured woman to the side $5. of the road' and then drove off.

FAIR GENERALLY

A semi-official statement says

The Royal Observatory reports that Germany regards settlement that a depression covers Shantung of the conflict as desirable and and the typhoon is situated about adds: "Hope is expressed that 350 miles east of Formosa, moving henceforth on the Soviet-Manchu- W.N.W. Forecast W. and N.W. kuo frontier, the Soviet-Russian winds, moderate; fair generally. provocations which led to

the

conflict will in the future cease and that a solution based on jus- tice which is undoubtedly in the standpoint of the Japanese- will take place."

BOURSE RECOVERS The armistice, which removed some anxiety in business circles, has been responsible to some ex- tent for the marked recovery on the Bourse yesterday, together with covering and orders from the banks.

Quotations increased generally and prices closed considerably firmer than during the past two days, but the recent losses are by no means made good.-Reuter.

PRISONERS SET FREE BY TIENTSIN GUERILLAS

Peiping, To-day.

In the course of increased guerilla warfare in North China, Chinese, irregulars raided a prison situated in the Chinese city of Tientsin on Wednesday night, freeing 260 pri-

soners.

succeeded in Japanese troops recapturing a small number of the fugitives.-Trans-Ocean.

Mo Fu-lum, aged 7, was knocked down by car No. 4941 in Garden Road yesterday and admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital.

MOTOR CASES

222,

fined

secuting, said that Mr. Murdoch went to see some, people off in

He launch at the Queen's Pier. Summoned before Mr. H. R. But-drove his car inside the pier under ters, at the Central Magistracy this the arch and left it there. morning, Mr. D. A. Murdoch, was For failing to renew their fined $5 for leaving his car at licences. Dr. M. Shi and Dr. W. K. Queen's Pier.

Tsang, were this morning fined $10 Traffic Inspector Saunders, pro- ́each.

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