THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1939.
JAPANESE TIENTSIN ATROCITIES: HORRIBLE DEATH OF PEDDLERS
CHUNGKING, TO-DAY.
SEVEN OF THE EIGHTEEN CHINESE VEGETABLE PED. DLERS ARRESTED BY THE JAPANESE IN TIENTSIN ON SATURDAY MORNING HAVE SINCE DIED OF HEAT AND WERE SUBSEQUENTLY BURNED BY THE JAPANESE IN THE HAIKWANGSSU CREMATION GROUND.
SHANGHAI MAN WINS MORRIS CAR RALLY
London, June 5.
A prize for the car coming the longest distance to the seventh Annual Rally for Morris car own- ers in Donington Park yesterday was won by Mr. Gilbert H. Jolley, of Metropolitan Vickers Electric, Shanghai Office.
Mr. Jolley reached Oxford on leave on Friday, having driven 15,000 miles in a 1935 Morris Ten.
He came through Indo-China, Siam, Burma, India, Persia, the Balkans, Germany and Belgium.
The oldest car in the rally was a 1924 model, driven by its origin- al owner, Miss A. F. Sandes, Oak- well Drive, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Mr. B. Randle, Gainsborough Road, Leicester, won the News Chronicle Cup for the best kept Series I. Morris 8 four-door saloon.
"DECLARATION
OF WAR AGAINST BRITISH EMPIRE”
1
Before their death, the unfor- tunate Chinese were subjected to a terrible ordeal. Stripped entirely naked, they were lined up and or- dered to kneel on an open lot on Chiushan Street. Each with an empty kerosene tin slipped over the head, they were literally scorched to death by the terrific heat of . the midday sun.
OTHERS SHOT
The bodies of the dead peddlers were then dragged to the cremation ground and burned.
Two other peddlers trying to crawl through the Japanese barbed wire barricade into the British Con-
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DURHAMS FETCH FOOD Collections in the two Concessions, which fall due on. the Dragon Boat Day, will be impossible, and fears are freely expressed that many firms in the Chinese city and the Japanese to in- Concession will be frozen solvency.
ད LONDON, TO-DAY. "EVENTS AT TIENTSIN WITH THE SUPPORT GIVEN TO JAPAN BY GERMANY AND ITALY, REALLY AMOUNT TO
To alleviate the worsening food A DECLARATION OF WAR
situation, the British authorities de- AGAINST THE BRITISH EM-spatched seven trucks, under the PIRE," DECLARED ADMIRAL escort of armed Durhams, to SIR ROGER KEYES, ADDRESS. Italian Concession and bought up ING A PARADE OF A.R.P. vo.large quantities of vegetables
Saturday.
LUNTEERS IN LONDON LAST NIGHT.
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On both their outward and re- turn trips through the International
“It is a challenge which must be Bridge the trucks were unchalleng- met," Admiral Keyes added,
The speaker was convinced that if we were resolute and firm and showed the whole world that Bri- tain was ready to enter the strug- gle, making full use of her wealth, industry and manpower, we could win without a clash of arms. Reuter.
The P. and O. vessel Chitral, which left Singapore on Saturday, is due in. Hong Kong at about p.m. on Wednesday,
"NIKS
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RUMANIA SAYS A DEFINITE "NO"
SILJSTRA (SOUTHERN
RUMANIA); TO-DAY. HOPES RECENTLY EXPRESS- ED IN SOFIA (THE BULGARIAN CAPITAL) THAT RUMANIA MIGHT OFFER TO CEDE PART OF THE DOBRUDJA TO: :BUL- GARIA AS CONDITION FOR THE LATTER'S ENTRY INTO THE BALKAN ENTENTE, WERE ANSWERED - NEGATIVELY BY MINISTER TITSANU YESTER DAY.
M. Titsanu was unveiling a statue to King Ferdinand 1 of Rumanía... "Too much is spoken about minori- ties settled In Rumania, and too little about Rumanian minorities outside our frontiers-frontiera which are consecrated by history
he declared Reuter. and
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