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THE CHINA MAIL

ABNORMAL DEMANDS

Purpose of the issue of this special edition is to meet the demands of readers who have been unable to obtain copies of the normal late edition Of the “Chiva Mail,” The de- mand to-dev has heen so great that we have been unable to cope with_requirements in our ordinary editions.

GERMANY'S MOOD REVEALED

Berlin, To-day.

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1939.

DESPERATE ROOSEVELT EFFORT TO SAVE PEACE: THREE METHODS SUGGESTED

Washington, To-day.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has made dramatic BRITISH

direct appeals to President Mosckicki of Poland FLEET IN

and Herr Hitler to preserve'meace and has sug- gested three methods of avoiding war

Firstlv. by direct negotiation:

Secondly, by submission of their controversy

to impartial arbitration, and

BALTIC ZONE

Copenhagen, To-day. According to an announce- ment by the Danish radio ser- Thirdly, agreement to adopt a procedure of vice numerous British war-

conciliation and to select a conciliator or ships have moderator. Router.

been observed from Kristiansund, in Nor-

. The President x]so summastę a trice Tank trans in and around (donín | Way. "for a resconekle skinulatad ́nariod.”, have been covered with 'rong fel

so as to make them invisible to enem 'nlanes,

Ia significantly remarks that the neonle of the United States pre oa one in onnasitión 'to policies of military conquest and domination and in re- Secting the thesis that anv ruler and

right to achieve. their ends or obiectives through 20-

nannte naccess the

The President's 'sunnestions do not mean that President Roosevelt has another "Munich” In mind, according to hlo secretary. Reuter.

The “Cup Is Overflowing" is the heading to an editorial tion plunging countless millions into in the official Nazi organ war and bringing distress ani suffer- "Voelkische Beobachter" to-in to all nations, both belligerent

and neutral. day, which deals with count- less reports reaching Berlin of military preparations in Poland, of "outrages against members of the German

In the meantime. Poland has minority," and of the in-

dored peneral mohilisation and War- creasing "number of mani-

saw is thronged with troons on their festations of uncontrolled way to various fronts, German troons chauvinism of the military authorities."

"We have emphatically warned, the paper declares, "against making the mistake of assuming that Ger- man patience is without limits.

or-

are moving un to the Polish bordars and Eurong awaits anxiously on the stone which are being decided unan at Hitler's "war council" at the Chan- cellry.

German reports from Danzi

Poland has ordered general "The responsibility for a situation that which has become unbearable is ab- | mobilisation is confirmed by the "last solutely clear:-The guilt lies with Po- members of the German minority who and, who allows hatred against every- | managed to rescue themselves into thing German to express itself in the territory of the Free City." such unparalleled provocations not less with England, who gave and repeatedly renewed a carte blanche to Polish war-mongery.

and

NAZI "PATIENCE" "The love of peace and the patience of the German people has been put to the hardest tests in these weeks of minterrunted Polish terrorism.

"We cannot tolerate that Danzig is threatened by a Polish coup. Neither Warsaw nor London can have anv doubt as to Germany's determination the not to tolerate such a crime for sake of peace.

"The line is clearly drawn where Germany is able or entitled to show any consideration."-Trans-Ocean.

DALADIER TO BROADCAST

All men uo to the age of 42 have heen called to the Colours, including the group which consists of men who at the last examination, were found to be of limited fitness for military service.

WOODS CUT DOWN On the Danzig frontier, it is report- ed that last night all woods near Streblinddi were cut down. The wood has been used for the construction of dug-outs and trenches.

In tho vicinity of Rebnau, troops have been seen feverishly digging trenches.

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to

Polish gush lasts of military ane realriant

have in Danzia

bann called

the Galaura, The Whecmetically eloged” Polish fron- tler was bortiv-odoned for the purpose of letting them Into Po- land,

Dock-workers were called to cal.... lecting stations directly from work yesterday morning, so that the load- ing and unloading of shing is meeting with considerable difficultv.

Rallway transnorta destined for Danzin were held back on the frontier by the Polish quards. War nrenarations (savs the German report from Danzle) have resulted in increased nervousness in the popula- tion of Gdynia "which is manifesting itself in outrages against the last few remaining German residents.”—Trans- Ocean.

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H.K. BORDER SITUATION

Japanese troop movements continue between Shumchun and Namtau, according to latest messages from the border to-day.

Japanese

from

Reports of the numbers of Japanese at Shumchun vary considerably.

300 This morning some troops were reported moving Shataukok in the direction of Sha- ng-chung, Mirs Bay terminus of the Tai-po-Sha-ng-chung Ferry Service.

All the villages between Namtau, Shumchun and Shataukok along the border on the Chinese side have how been occupied by Japanese troops.

Refugees continue returning to

DEFENCE STEP Sha-ng-chung and this morning some

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MALTA

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A PARTIAL MOBILISATION OF MALTA WAS ORDERED ON

BY A SPECIAL THURSDAY

DE-

CREE OF THE GOVERNOR.

Paris, To-day: Premier Daladier will make а broadcast, gddress this evening at 8 o'clock. The speech, it is presumed, will be a statement of the French at-

All fortifcation works, It is report- titude to the present Furopean ten-ed, have been fully manned and a sion and is not expected to contain state of alarni has been declared for hrything new--Trans-Ocean.

Madrid, To-day. British military authorities

in Gibraltar, it was reported last night, have ordered all foreigners- to leave the colony with 48

· hours.Traus-Ocean,

the troops.

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In the morning, the population was Invited to volunteer for the Terri- | torials; and for elvil defánte organ-

isations,

To-day, gas-masks will be dis-

tributed.-Trans-Ocean.

250 left by ferry.

Hundreds are still waiting to .be taken across the Bay.

The warshins are said by observers to be exercising between Skogen, in Denmark, and the Norwegian coast.

the The fleet, which, arrived in Skaggerak on Wednesday, kept its searchlights active throughout Wed- nesday night.

The newspaper "Soolal Demo- craten" remarks that thèee ob- servations tally with reports from Danleh vessels - which passed through the Skaggerak on Wed- nraday.

According to these reports, the Bri- tish warships were scattered at in- tervals of about two kilometres throughout — the channel between Skagen and the southermost point of the Norwegian const.---Trans-Ocean.

NO HINT OF

GERMAN DECISION

Berlin, To-day.

On the "war council" attended by the Fuehrer and the Reich Foreign Minister (von Ribbentrop), which went on until the early hours of this morning, and which was also attend-

ed by other cabinet members and the military and naval chiefs, no com- munique has been issued yet and complete silence is observed by off- cial quarters. Trans-Ocean.

FRANCE PREPARING

Paris, To-day. The civil mobilization of France is continuing.

In numerous streets of Paris and of many cities in the frontier zone, ap- apliances for dirtiming lights, in case at of air raids have been installed.

LUNGKONG CLASH Reports received from trustworthy sources this afternoon state that force of Japanese troops were almost wiped out by Chinese guerillas Lungkong, a town midway between Pinew..on the Canton-Kowloon Line, and Tam-hui,

BIAS BAY REPORT. Chinese renprts, this afternoon -state that some 20 Japanese war-

shins and a large number of. trawlers and armed. junks are concentrated in Blas Bay. Planes took off this morning from the gunboats and flew inland.

The Ministry: The Pukifa Workce has' advledd all-feridants of Raris whose piercfice rito,itot, absolusaly necessary to leaven at the coun try.

The Fremderkindilon, has fistructed allworkers of azmame are on leave

‚ta return Immediately to their.

Trans-Qock.