1940-01-23 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1940

JAPANESE PROTEST "British Action Serious And Unfriendly

OBJECTION TO

"ASAMA MARU" BOARDING

London, To-day.

ACCORDING TO THE LATEST reports, the Asama Maru was 35 miles off Japan when she was stop- ped by a British warship on Saturday.

DUTCH AIR CRASH NEAR BALI

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Batavia, To-day.

Three members of the craw and five passengers perished yester- day when · Dutch passenger plane crashed into the sea on its way from Bali to Sydney.—Havas.

The 21 Germans removed were all of military age COLD WAVE

and members of oil tanker crews on their way

back to Germany, and semi-official quarters SWEEPING here point out that if they were allowed to re-

turn home they would be particularly useful to CHINA

the German war effort.

Thirty other Germans were onl The "Japan Times”: It is a scandal board. They were mostly merchants requiring immediate amends: it is as

Chungking, To-day.

A cold wave is sweeping

and were allowed to continue on their, if a foreign warship sailed into a over China, forcing the mer-

way.

Japanese port and took away foreign The right to remove enemies of mill- ] residents legally living there.--Havas. tary age from a neutral ship is recog- nized by international law, these same circles point out.

VEREKER CASE

It has been used by the Germans so- veral times in the Baltlo, when Ger- man warships took off Poles of mill- tary ago.

Last month, Mr. Gordon Vereker, former Councillor of the British Em- bassy at Moscow, and several Poles were taken off a neutral ship by a German warship. Mr. Vereker was only released because he was a con- sular official.-Reuter.

***A few days ago, it will be recall- ed, a German consular official passed through Hong Kong unmolested.

JAPAN TO PROTEST

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New York, To-day

The Japanese Government is at- taching considerablé importance to the Asama Maru incident and it is anticipated that Tokyo will launch a protest to London within a few days. An eye-witness stated that a Bri- tish cruiser stopped the Asama Maru about 12.40 p.m. Three British off- cers and ten sailors boarded her.

N.Y.K. ACTION

San Francisco, To-day. A spokesman of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha stated that the company would probably not accept any more German citizens for trans-Pacific transportation in future following the Asama Maru incident, Havas.

EFFICIENT SECRET

SERVICE

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Tokyo, To-day. The Japanese are amazed at the fact that when the Germans on board the Asama Maru assembled at the command of the British naval officer, the latter produced his own list of the 21 Germans wanted, thus showing the efficiency of the British Intelligence Service. Havas.

JAPANESE

PROTEST

One German sallor attempted

Tokyo, To-day. to attack the British officer but

The Japanese Government has form was prevented by his own chief. The British officer presented a list ally protested to the British Ambassa containing the names of 21 Germans.dor against the stopping of the Asama After a formal protest, the captain summoned the 41 German men pas- sengers but only 39 responded.

BERLIN INTEREST

:

Maru.

cury below zero at many places.

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WANG AGREEMENT

ALL PEACE LIKELIHOOD VANISHES

It is reported that Kao Tsung-wu and Tao Hai- sheng, the two former follow. ers of Wang Ching-wei who gave the "Ta Kung Pao" the biggest scoop in the Sino- Japanese conflict exposing the "peace agreement” be- tween Wang and the Japan- ese, have left Hong Kong for an undisclosed destination.

Important documents relating to Wang Ching-wel's dealings with the Japanese have been sent to Chungking. PEACE POSSIBILITY VANISHES Chungking, To-day. Further intensification in China's determination to carry on the wor against Japan and the "complete dis- appearance of all possibilities of peace the two coun- negotiations between tries" is stated to be the official reac- here to the publication of the tion reported terms of agreement between Farmers in areas around the Tung-Wang Ching-wel and Japan. ting Lake in north Hunan are glad at the heavy snowfall which is a portent for a bounteous year. Already they are ploughing the earth and storing water for spring sowing.

The cold spell in Changsha, capital of Hunan, is described as the severest in 20 years. Most of the city's water pipes are frozen.

Reports from Kweilin, capital of Kwangel, and Shlukwan, 140 miles north of Canton in north Kwangtung. state that the temperature in both places has dropped to the freezing point. A mixed drizzle and snow fell in Shiukwan last night.

Interviewed last evening a Chinese declared Government spokesman Chinese were not surprised at the severity of the terms laid down by the Japanese, as they represented the basic policy previously followed by the Japanese army. Reuter."

WANG HENCHMAN SPEAKS (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Shanghai, To-day. Chen Kung-po, expelled Director of Publicity of the Chungking Govern- The weather is coldest in Lanchow,ment, now chief of Wang Ching-wel's capital of Kansu, where the mercury Secretariat in Shanghal, stated to the dropped to eight degrees below zero press yesterday that the

wel- and the Japanese as reported by and a blinding snowstorm raged all allegedly signed between Wang Ching- Kao Chung-yu and Tao Hsi-sheng day yesterday.

were merely demands presented by the Japanese,

Central News.

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

agreement

"Chinese counter-demands and terms actually arrived at between re- presentatives of Wang Ching-wel and the Japanese are completely ignored by Kao and Tao.

"The time has not yet come for Mr. R. G. Parker of No. 184, The publication of the actual terms," said

Havas. Peak, was cautioned by Mr. H. G. Chen. Sheldon, K.C, at the Central Magis-.

tracy this morning when he was sum- FUNERAL OF

moned for leaying his car unattended The Vice-Minister of Foreign Af in Queen's Theatre Lane near Queen's faire told the Ambassador that the Road Central. Government cannot but regard the A fine of $5 was imposed on Mrs. British action as serious and unfriend-C. R. Boxer of No. 7, Abermore Court,

Shortly after the British warship left two of the missing Germans re-ly against Japan.

The Japanese Government reserves appeared: one had hid himself in the kitchen and the other in a ventilator. the right to demand delivery to them

is of the detained Germans.-Rauter. It is understood that Berlin closely following the Japanese atti- tude, asserting that the prestige of the Japanese Navy is jeopardised especially considering the fact that Japan wishes to maintain her hegemony in the Western Pacific. Havas.

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PRESS ANGRY

Tokyo, To-day. The Japanese press are very angry

the ...Asama

Mari incident, over especially over the fact that it hap- pened close to Japanese shores.

The "Nichi Nichi" national law or not, ably ruda.

****Yomiurl":

COUNT DE MARTEL DEAD

...

WU PEI-FU

to May Road, who pleaded guilty TO-MORROW

a similar offence.

EMPIRE AIR SCHEME

Ottawa, To-day.

It is officially announced that over 4,000 aircraft have been ordered in connexion with the Empire air train- ing scheme.

Seven new schools are being,esta- (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)

Paris, To-day.blished in various parts of the coun- Count Damien de Martel, French try, as well as three large wireless Minister to China from 1924 to 1929 schools, each accommodating 1,000 and Ambassador in Tokyo from 1929 students.-Reuter. to 1933, died in Paris yesterday after a month's illness.

Count de Martel, who was 61 years old, was cent) High Commissioner

$2 BRILL CHARGE

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PEIPING RELIEF

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Pelping, To-day, Tuson arrived here erday to relieve Mr. L. H. Lamb

tish Consul in Peiping.

it is understood, is leav- for Shanghai where to take up the post- iding consut Reuter

PEIPING, TO-DAY.

MANY PROMINENT FOREIGNERS, INCLUDING DIPLOMATIC - OFFI- CIALS, WERE PRESENT" AT A SPECIAL MEMORIAL CEREMONY FOR MARSHAL WU PEI-FU YES- TERDAY AFTERNOON, AT WHICH THE FOREIGNERS PAID RESPECTS AT THE LATE "WAR-LORD'S HOME.

Each of those attending bowed three mes before the Marshal's portrált.

The reception hall was hung with many eulogistle-scrolls, -

The funeral takes place to-morrow morning. Reuter

ANNUAL BOAT RACE

London, To- Cambridge have, agreed to the ford sugges Boat Race a

a course of