1939-08-16 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1939.

CENSORSHIP M.P. KILLED IN CRASH OF

OF CHINESE PRESS

Disclosure that the local Chinese

newspapers have been prohibited by censorship from making any reference to the decision of the British Government expressing their readiness to hand over the four Chinese prisoners in Tientsin, has aroused sharp comment in Chungking.

Whether or not the censorship was justified on any reasonable ground,

BRITISH AIRWAYS PLANE: PILOT THE SOLE SURVIVOR

FIVE DIED IN A DISASTER to

London, To-day. CANADIANS

British Airways

:

plane near Copenhagen yesterday afternoon. HELD AS Four were passengers and one a member of the PRISONERS

crew.

such as unfair at unbalanced criticism, The plane, a Lockheed Electra air-liner fell into the

may perhaps, be judged perhaps from the following extracts from a leading article which was to have appeared in the "Star Daily," a local evening newspaper.

The article, after arguing the inno- cence of the four Chinese goes on:-

Shanghai, To-day.

It is learned that Fathers

sea in flames near Storstroem Bridge, and it is Courchesne and Renaud, of presumed that the inmates, only one of whom escaped, were drowned.

The machine left Heston this morn-

“But this is not important; what is important is that even if the four ing for Hamburg, Copenhagen and

Chinese were convicted, should the Stockholm. There had been a severe THREE

ed

Fishing boats, lifeboate and pilot cutters rushed to the scene of the crash and one of the boats ploked up the injured pllot just as the machine sank.

The four passengers were all of dif- there being one

one. German

Reuter,

British Authorities hand them over thunderstorm in the district where · to the 'Local Court at Tientsin? Mr. the mishap occurred, and it is believ- Chamberlain, in answer to a question

that the plane was struck by put forth by Mr. Baker in the House lightning. of Commons on August 4th asking for an assurance that the four Chinese in no circumstances be handed over, ridiculed him for being not a 'judi- cally minded' person.. Mr. Chamber- lain said it was a question of evid- ence. If the result of examination of the evidence submitted by the Japan-ferent nationalities, ese was that a prima facie case had Briton, one. American, been made out, the British Authorit- and one. Mexican. ies had no right to do other than hand them over.

The British "This is what Mr. Chamberlain call-killed was Mr. A. C. ed a judicial mind! We would like ley, M.P., a director to ask: Where is the Chinese court famous firm of oil to which the British Authorities are prepared to hand over the four Chin- manufacturers. ese? Does it exist in the judicial

He had been a member of Parlia- mind?' Of course, there is a bogus ment since 1931, representing first regime in Peiping: but does this bogus Oldham and then Stretford in the regime exist judicially? Has Eng Conservative cause. He was Parlia- land recognised it? If England has mentary Secretary to the Minister of not judically recognised the existence Transport. He celebrated his. 36th of that regime, then why does England birthday on Sunday. accord recognition to the "local court' at Tientsin which is a part of the bogus regime? Where then is the 'judicial mind?' ·

The four men involved are but a pebble on the beach. A great num- ber of our brethren have been daily. killed by Japanese bombs and can- nons. We can endure the sacrifice of four. We Chinese would willingly sacrifice. not four, but four thousand of our people, if the sacrifice is of any - benefit to our friends. If there is any truth in Lord Strabolgi's declara- tion that China is fighting Britain's war, then China has sacrificed more than four men for Britain. The ques-. tion is, not whether we Chinese are willing to sacrifice, but rather what is the price of our sacrifice.

"We

the Canadian Jesuit Mission, Hsuchowfu (who, as reported in the "China Mail" yester- day, were "arrested" by Jap- anese gendarmes on August 6) have been held incom- municado at Japanese gen-

CANDIDATES darmerie headquarters ever

Chungking, To-day.

On July 19, it was semi- officially stated that the 14th Dalai Lama, a 5-year old child, had been found near Kumbun, and his start for the trip to Lhassa was des- cribed at great length in the local papers.

.

since their arrest.

Both are British subjects. On the occasion of the raid on the

mission in which the two priests were seized, the Japanese confiscated some

spare radio parts and a few booklets.

They also removed documente and some Chinese money from room of Father-Superior Cote, American head of the mis- alon.

the

•

NO BASIS

passenger Cross- of the Yesterday, an official of the Mon- engine told Trans-Ocean that two other golian Tibetan Affairs Commission

The Japanese accuse Fathers Cour- children of 4 years of age —

had chesne and Renaud of being, respec-. also been accepted as candidates. tively, president and secretary of an The final selection will take place in Anti-Japanese Association "whichi Lhassa, to which city General Wu-holds meetings in the premises of the chung Hsin, chairman of the Commis-mission." sion, will depart next month..

The Mission, emphasises that there The selection will be by draw. is no basis whatever for the charge. Trans-Ocean.

--Reuter.

The rescued pilot, Commander Wright, stated that after noticing a fire in the wireless room, he brought the airliner down to the water.

He had to smash a window in or- der to get out.

Commander Wright was the sole · survivor. The member of the crash and one of the boats picked

tor.

Storstroem Bridge, where the dis- aster occurred, is the longest in Europe and links the Danish islands of Masnedo and Falster-Reuter.

OTHER PASSENGERS

down

Mr. A. C. Crossley, and three other passengers,--Herr Beuss (German) Mr. Simonson (U.S.) must understand that the (Mexican)-lost their lives when the Mr.. Castello handing over of the four Chinese is Lockheed Electra was forced but a part of the result of the pre-into the sea, south of Zeeland, near liminary agreement' reached at the Anglo-Japanese conference at Tokyo

Vordenborg, We would like to quote a para-yet established, but it

The cause of the accident is not appears the Matthew,

plane took fire and reports suggest struck by

The death of Mr. Crossley, who was going to Sweden on a fishing holiday, will necessitate a by-election at Stret- ford, where, with 34,879 votes, had a majority of 15,596 Labour opponent at the last election.

British Wireless.

lightning.

graph of the Bible, St. Chapter VII, paragraph VI: 'Give not that it may have been that which is holy unto the dogs, nei- ther cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under

their feet, and turn again and rend you.'"

INCREASE IN VIENNA

BIRTH RATE

Vienna, To-day.

An extraordinary increase in births in Vienna is shown by the official sta- tistics published yesterday.....

The total number of children born alive in the whole of 1937 was 10,082; in the first six months of 1939 alone, 12,000 were born.

As the figure rises each quarter of a year, it is expected that the 1988 figure will triple that of 1937.

At one time, Vienna had the lowest birth-rate of the cities of the world, with 5.5 births per 1,000 inhabitants. The present figure is 14.3 per mille. -Trans-Occan.

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he

over the

STOWAWAY FINED

35-year-

Crispin Sigovia Lessian, Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis old Filipino, was convicted by Mr. E. tracy this morning for stowing away on board the s.s. President Van Buren from Manila.

or one

Lessian was fired $20, month's hard labour for stowing away and $10, or two weeks' imprison- ment, for entering the Colony without a valid passport.

Defendant said that he wanted to return to America to recover some of his property.

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