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-ULTIMATUM- TO POLAND DENIED

Warsaw, To-day. Official quarters deny that there has been a German ulti- matum to Poland or that there has been any pressure by Ger- many about the status of Dan- zig.-Reuter.

SLOVAKS

Both ""Canton" And CHINESE THROW M.M. Liner

Liner Believed JAPS. BACK IN Badly Damaged

Damage to the liners Canton and Marechal Joffre

which were in collision this morning near Breaker Point is believed to be more serious

KONGMOON AREA

Macao, To-day.

Chinese officials at Shekki re- port that the Chinese re-took Kong- moon yesterday evening after fierce

than was first suggested, although both the P. fighting.

They also claim that Chinese and O. Company (agents, Mackinnon, Mac-troops repulsed an attempted Japan-

ese landing at Wangmoon. kenzie) and the Messageries Maritimes state that no details have been received.

The Chinese further state that Yungki and Kweichow have been reoccupied.

Refugees, continue to pour in to

DISCUSS BARTER It is, however, learned that both the Marechal Joffre Macao. Reuter

OF TERRITORY

RETREAT TO PAKKUI

Our Macao correspondent, says

and the Canton will have to go into dock for examination, and that the P. and O. liner Chi- tral will not sail for Shanghai as scheduled, but that the Japanese have retreated to is being held back.

Takkul, the Sunning Railway ter- minus about a mile north-east of Kongmoon on the bank of the West River..

Bratislava, To-day.

*** Consultations of the Slovak If the damage to the Canton, tons, was bound from Hong Government on the Hungarian de- is found to necessitate docking Kong for Shanghai, and left at The Chinese troops in Kongmoon for any length of time, the Chi-midnight. She is believed to are How rounding up traitors who mands for frontier revision in East tral will not proceed to Shang- have suffered most severely in are alleged to have facilitated the Slovakia concluded last evening and hai, but will be turned round and the crash..

Japanese entry into the town. a Slovak delegation immediately will embark the Canton's pas-

sengers for the United Kingdom,

The P. and O. Canton, on her

set out for Budapest, where negotia-both from the North and from second voyage to the Far East, from Shanghai and due at 4 p.m. tions will begin to-day.

was coming down to Hong Kong to-day.

It is declared that Hungary, de- mands 1,600 square kilometres of territory which is now claimed by Slovakia and particularly the strategically important railway through the Ung Valley.

Hong Kong.

The Chitral. will, in these. circumstances, take over the Canton's schedule.

That the damage to the Mare- chal Joffre is serious is indicat- Slovakia is said to be willing to ed by the fact that it was con- grant Hungary these concessions sidered inadvisable for her to but demands, in return, frontier proceed, and the additional in- revision In the Neutra district, eo formation that she is steaming to that the Slovak communities award-Hong Kong very cautiously and ed to Hungary in the Vienna de- is not due in Hong Kong until cision will be returned to the Slovak to-morrow morning. State, Trans-Ocean.

HUNGARIAN ALLEGATIONS

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Service ancy says that a Hungarian

ARRIVAL UNCERTAIN

In the forenoon, it was stated that the s.s. Canton would arrive at about 5 p.m. this evening, but this afternoon, the official state- ment was that the time of her arrival was uncertain,

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