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JAPAN

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1989

READY TO TALK

ABOUT NINE-POWER PACT Remarkable Terms And Conditions

But Makes

SEVERAL

Direct Talks

TOWNS WIPED

With Britain

-BUS AMBUSH-

OUT IN QUAKE

Santiago, To-day.

The town of Coelemu has been entirely destroyed by the recent earthquake, according to a state- ment issued by the Minister of Interior Pedro Alfonso.

Of the 400 inmates of a Children's home, only twenty have survived.

The towns Pocillas and Quirihue were also completely destroyed.

And America

Tokyo, To-day.

Japan will tell the United States and Great Britain shortly that she is agreeable to entering into direct negotiations with them, but not in an international conference, regarding modifica- tion of the principles of the "Open Door” and equal opportunity in China, according to in- formed sources in Tokyo.

Criminal elements of the popula- The United States and Britain must first, however,

tion have taken advantage of con- ditions prevailing in rural areas in consequence of the catastrophe and have robbed several houses desert- ed by their owners. Numerous robbers have been arrested in Con- ception, Chillan and San Carlos and exemplary punishment will be meted out to the culprits under martial law.

LESSER SHOCKS

A number of lesser shocks are reported to have occurred on Satur- day in Cauguenes.

assent to a number of conditions, including complete freedom of world commerce, freedom of residence and travel for the Oriental races, abolition of tariff barrier and import quotas and free access to raw materials essential for National existence,

Acceptance of these conditions, it, policy, peculiar to them, of taking is said, would remove all causes for advantage of the defects of con- concern on the part of the Powers ference diplomacy to promote their regarding East Asia.

own ends.

Because The replies to the American Note

of the traditionally of December 31st and the British friendly relations between Japan Note of January 14th will be made and Britain and the United States, Organisation of relief for victims as soon as the Foreign, Office has however, the Japanese Government of the catastrophe is constantly ex-studied them carefully.

is ready to enter into negotiations tending.

A. Thorough liberation of the

It is declared that the following with them on condition that they The commander of the garrison points will be embodied in the re-accept the following: in Chillan estimates the number of plies: killed in that town at ten thousand. 1. The Notes make it clear that Oriental races..

The Chilean branch of Siemens- the British and American Govern- Schuckert Works is taking a large part in the organisation of relief measures in devastated regions.

ments wish to settle the question of adjustment of the principles of the "Open Door" and equal oppor- It is further stated that a plane tunity by negotiation among the is now on its way from Rio De Jan- countries concerned. They desire eiro with 70 tons of anti-tetanus to settle through an international serum and other medicaments of conference issues pending with Ja- which there is a scarcity here. pan which they find difficult to settle Trans-Ocean.

CAFE CHOPPER INCIDENT

Hiyoshi Sagara, the Japanese who was critically wounded'in a Wanchai Cafe early yesterday morning, was still hovering be- tween life and death to-day. The hospital authorities stated that no definite hope of his recovery can yet be held out.

His alleged assailant is expect- ed to be committed to the Mental Hospita!.

MELCHERS' CLERK DENIES CHARGE

At the Central Magistracy this morning, Tang Kim-hung, 41, clerk, was remanded by Mr. R. Edwards when charged with fraudulent conversion of a sum of $719.19, on October 21, last year...

It was alleged that the sum was issued by the Chien-Hsin-En- gineering Company to Messrs. Melchers & Company, but he con- verted it to his own use.

'Defendant pleaded not guilty, ta the charge,

Mr. August Wurthman, Mel- chera manager, appeared as com- plainant.

in direct negotiations. This shows that they have yet to realise thej irrationality of conference diplo- macy or are pursuing a calculating

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(i) Abolition of all conditions under which the- Powers treat China as a colony. (ii) Freedom of residence and

travel for the Oriental races. B. Complete freedom of world commerce.

IN PALESTINE

Jerusalem, To-day. Shots were fired from ambush at an omnibus on the outskirts of the Jerusalem and an Arab woman was killed

and another passenger wounded. Reuter,

MOTOR-CYCLIST'S SPILL

Ip Kon-kuen, a motor-cyclist, re- siding at No. 156 Cheung Sha Wan Road, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, with injuries to the head, after a collision with a motor lorry

in Chung Hop village..

At about 5.30 p.m. on Friday, Ip was riding a motor cycle, and bump- ed into the motor lorry which was.

not in motion. He was first treat- ed at the Un Long dispensary, and later transferred to the Hospital.

necessary for existence.

national

(ii) Acquisition of resouces ne- cessary for national defence. If these proposals are accepted, the causes of the uncertainty and concern felt by Britain and the United States in the Orient, that is, the restrictions that might be placed on their activities and the activities of other countriès under the plan for the establishment of economic autonomy for Japan, Man- (ii) Abolition of tariff barriers chukuo and China and the perfec-

and import quotas.

tion of their defences, will cease to C. Fair distribution of resources. exist, the replies will (i) Free access to raw materials Reuter.

(i) Liquidation of existing econo-

mic blocs.

Unemployed demonstrators staged a “lay down", strike in Oxford Street, London

declare.

January 17. Bome

sixty men, in the pouring rain, lay down in the muddy road and covered themselves with placards: Trafile

eld up for some time before the police succeeded in clearing them away. scene as the unemployed staged their lay-down strike. (Air Mail).

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