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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939 Price: 10 Cts.
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-NO TRACE OF MISSING SCOTSMAN
No trace has yet been found of Charles Christian, the 60-year-old Chief Engineer of the s.8. Deslock, under charter to the M. B. K., who left the ship at 3 a.m. yes- terday and has not since been
seen.
Mr. Christian is a native of Aberdeen.
ALL PARIS CINEMA OWNERS ON STRIKE
Paris, To-day.
All cinemas in Paris closed last night in conformation with the decree of the Theatre Owners' Union which chose this manner to protest against the new municipal taxes levied by the City Council.
Signs were placed in front of all theatres at noon announcing that the house would be closed until further notice.
Negotiations are going on with the City Council but agreement had not been reached last evening. -Trans-Ocean.
WEATHER FORECAST
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone has increased considerably in intensity and the depression has moved rapidly north- eastward to Hokkaido.
Local forecast:- N. E. winds, fresh; cloudy with drizzle or mist.
Shanghai, To-day.
The Japanese authorities, as was expected despite the fact that Wang Ching-wei has been com-
TEN ARRESTS
IN SHANGHAI pletely discredited, are endeavouring to make HOLD-UP
HOLD-UP CASE
Shanghai, To-day. Ten arrests were made by the Shanghai Municipal Police last
evening in connexion with the hold-
up of fifteen Britons and Ameri-
capital out of his peace statement, and entering upon a propaganda campaign suggesting that the views of Wang Ching-wei are widely held. This morning, for instance, Japanese planes flew over the French Concession and the Interna-
tional Settlement, and dropped thousands of pamphlets written in Chinese, all dealing with ladies, were forced to alight. from the Wang Ching-wei episode.
The pamphlets alleged that vari-¡ Tai-chi (Ambassador in London) ous Chinese leaders wanted peace and Dr. Hu Shih (Ambassador in on the basis of Wang Ching-wei's Washington) had sent a telegram proposals, and that it was only to General Chiang Kai-shek urging General Chiang Kai-shek's ob-acceptance of Wang's proposals. stinacy which prevented this.
INVENTION
One pamphlet (untruthfully) de- clared that Dr. Wellington Koo (Ambassador in Paris), Mr. Quo
CZECH REPLY TO POLISH PROTESTS
Prague, To-day.
In a Czechoslovak note handed yesterday to the Polish Minister to Prague, in reply to various Polish protests, it is pointed out that the Czechoslovak Government is ready to examine Polish complaints of frontier violations and anxious do everything in order to facilitate quiet relations between Czecho-
slovakia and Poland.
to
But the note underlines the me- cessity of the Polish Government
CONSUL'S ARREST helping in these endeavours by
Bilbao, To-day.
just treatment of Czechoslovaks residing in the Olsa district ceded to Poland. The Czechoslovak Gov- The circumstances surrounding ernment simultaneously has in- the arrest of the British Consul instructed the Czechoslovak Minister' San Sebastian, Mr. Ernest Golding, to Warsaw to protest against al and his wife, are being withheld number of incidents in the same for the time being.-Trans-Ocean. district-Frans-Ocean.
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cans on Brennan Road last month.
Three of those arrested were
women.
It will be recalled, that the for- eigners, among whom were several
their cars
and were. robbed. money and valuables.-Reuter.
HEAVY LOSS
of
Mrs. H. Smith, of Knutsford Hotel, while shopping at the Wah Another pamphlet is a verbatim | Cheong store, No. 69, Nathan Road, translation of a Reuter story from yesterday, had her handbag and Hong Kong on December 31 out-contents, valued at $372, stolen lining Wang's proposals.-Reuter. from the counter.
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