1939-04-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, APRÌL 19, 1989

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Chiang Kai-Shek's Message NO POSSIBILITY OF PEACE AT MEN, MONEY, PRESENT COMPULSORY

·REICHSTAG BIGGER

Berlin, To-day,

A law passed by the Nazi Gov- ernment yesterday increases the size of the Reichstag, which al- ready numbers 855 deputies.

Memel will send two deputies and Bohemia and Moravia one de- puty for every 6,000 German vo- tera.

Hitler himself will pick the de- puties. Trans-Ocean.

Gafencu To Visit London

Chungking, To-day.

MUNITIONS

MOBILISATION URGED

LONDON, TO-DAY. ŢMMEDIATE ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COM- PULSORY MOBILISATION OF

"In the existing circumstances there is no possibili- ty for peace,” declared General Chiang Kai- shek, in an interview with the press yesterday. Asked if Prince Konoye's peace terms still could be THE MEN, MUNITIONS AND used as a basis for peace talks, General Chiang MONEY POWER OF THE NA- recalled his statement last December in which TION”, IS URGED IN A MOTION [PUT DOWN ON THE ORDER he described the "new order in East Asia" as PAPER LAST NIGHT BY LT.- nothing new but as another attempt at Japan- COL. L.C.M.S. AMERY, CONSER- ese hegemony in Asia.

China took up resistance, the Generalissimo continued, for the preservation of her national life, liberty and independence, and the war would continue until these aims were achieved.

Nothing could shake the con- fidence and determination of the

Chinese people to resist.

MORAL ISOLATION

London, To-day. THE Rumanian Foreign

Minister, M. Gafen- Referring to Wang Ching-wei and cu, will arrive in London his followers, the Generalissimo on Saturday this week declared their moral isolation was

just condemnation and legal pun- on an official three-day visit.

The programme of the talks in which he will engage has not yet

been fixed.

ishment could wait.

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Questioned how the Sino-- Japanese War would be terminated, the Generalissimo stated that this depended upon the march events.

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M. Gafencu arrived in Berlin yesterday and his official discus- Japan, he said, had been reduced sions in the Nazi capital will last to a second-rate power as the re- two days.

sult of

resis. China's prolonged He will then leave for Brussels tance. The time was bound to en route to London. Reuter. come when Japan could no longer

An official statement put out in bear the strain of the war. Berlin concerning the Ribbentrop ACCUMULATION OF SMALL talks with M. Gafencu says that far-reaching agreement of views -prevailed in the first talks.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT

A Japanese, Kyutaro Makita, was charged before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest this morning, with enter ing the Colony without a valid passport.

Inspector Ritchie said, defendant arrived from Canton yesterday. A fine of $10 was imposed.

A Japanese woman, Mrs. Masa Noda, was fined $5, for a similar offence.

VICTORIES

The war would come to an end,

he declared, when the Japanese mi-

abandoned their attempt to con- quer China.

NEW FRENCH APPOINTMENTS

Paris, To-day.

VATIVE M.P. FOR SPARK- BROOK.

Nearly 50 Government support- ers, including Mr. A. Duff-Cooper (former First Lord of the Admiral- ty), Sir Edward Grigg, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne and Sir Stanley Reed, favour the motion.-Reuter.

Other supporters of the motion (adds Trans-Ocean) are Mr. Robert Following the Council of Minis- Boothby, Mr. Duncan Sandys (Mr.

Churchill's ters yesterday, three decrees were Winston

son-in-law), signed by President Lebrun, ap- Sir Arnold Wilson (the well-known new French Gov-Conservative politician and publi- pointing three crnor-Generals, namely in Madagas-cist) and Mr. A. P. Herbert. car, French West Africa and French Equatorial-Africa.

This simultaneous

So Yuen, 40, was brought before appointment Mr. T. J. Houston this morning, larceny of barbed of three high colonial officials is charged with considered to be connected with wire from Jubilce Fort, Felix Villas, measures by M. Daladier to assure yesterday. the safety of the French Colonial Sentence of two months' imprison-

ment was imposed.. Empire.-Trans-Oceán..

Nazi Bartering Denounced

Washington, To-day.

litarists realised their mistakes and The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, emphati- cally denounced Germany's barter system as an injurious boomerang, in a statement issued last evening.

Asked how the war situation would develop, the Generalissimo stated it had been China's policy to gain time at the sacrifice of space, finally defeating the enemy through the accumulation of small victories.

The Chinese plan has hitherto

was

Mr. Hull declared it was

Firstly, a highly disruptive influence on world com-

merce,

been highly successful, the Genera- Secondly, injurious to the very countries which lissimo pointed out. After 22 utilise it, months of hostilities, China able to hold many provinces intact with only deserted capitals in a few provinces in the hands of the Japanese.

PEACE “TRAITORS", George Vylegjanin, 56, merchant,

CONDEMNED residing at the Kowloon Hotel, was |-- fined $10, for with failing to re- Meanwhile, the Japanese were be gister within 48 hours of his aring dragged deeper and deeper into rival. Defendant arrived here by a swamp from which it would be the s.s. Corfu.

NO HOSTILITY

BUT

Thirdly, he said, it was leading necessary to supplement other inevitably to a curtailment of methods of trade promotion. world trade, and

The latter qualifications, ac- Fourthly, reducing the, living cording to officials, would apply standard of those countries pur-to Senator Byrnes' gigantic plan suing such policies.

for exchange of essential commo- Mr. Cordell Hull referred to dities between the Democratic the recent investigation of the nations. Reuter. Department of Commerce show- ing that 16 countries with which difficult to extricate themselves. the United States had trade They were exposing themselves to agreements, had increased their constant attacks by the Chinese, purchases of American goods by who still hold the rural districts in 40 per cent. in the past three the so-called occupied areas..

years. Concluding, the Generalissimo At the same time, these coun- condemned "those traitors" who tries had increased purchases of are agitating for a "peace" in Jap- German goods by only 1.8 per

cent. M. de Monzie, the French Minisanese interests.-Reuter. ter for Public Works will shortly leave for Warsaw to perform the opening ceremony of the new stretch of the Polish railway line linking the Baltic with Polish Upper Sile sia. The ceremony will take place on Sunday next. Trans-Ocean.

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NEW POLISH RAILWAY

Paris, To-day.

London, To-day.

The President of the Board of Education, speaking in Edinburgh | SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES yesterday, said: "There is no hostil Believed to be suicide, the body of Despite his general condemnaty or bitterness in this country an unknown Chinese was found tion of the system, Mr. Cordell against the German people, but hanging from a tree at Causeway Hull acknowledged that there there is spirit of determination to Bay yesterday. The body was re- may be circumstances under prevent further aggression which moved to the Public Mortuary but which special types of barter ar- any wise nation will hesitate has not yet been identified.

rangements may be considered challenge."-British Wireless,