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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857

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Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

No. 24612.

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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937.

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Gentral Manager

PRICES You are urged by advor

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dangerous re-treatment means cheap vision for inordinately low prices means underpaid cheap labour somewhere.

An advertisement lurasd by W. Lasarus, Ugalzhau

Single Copy, 10 cts

Per Month. $3.

CONSERVATIVES PRESENTATION TO EARL BALDWIN.

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Map showing area where fighting took place yesterday between Chinese and Japanese troops.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED

IN PEIPINGTM

Aerodrome Occupied By Chinese

Troops

SUSPENSION OF TRAIN AND AIR

SERVICES

SHANGHAI, JULY' 8

IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT SINO-JAPANESE. FIGHTING RESUMED AT 7.30 P.M. FOLLOWING THE REFUSAL OF CHINESE TROOPS TO EVACUATE FROM LUKUOCHIA WHICH,

·CONTRARY TO A CLAIM BY THE JAPANESE, IS STILL HELD BY THE CHINESE.

MARTIAL LAW' HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED IN PEIPING."

TRAIN SERVICES FROM PEIPING HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.

CHINESE TROOPS HAVE OCCUPIED THE PEIPING AERODROME FORCING THE SUSPEN- SION OF THE PEIPING-TOKYO AIR, SERVICES.—REUTER.

Tokyo, July 7.

Japanese reports from Peiping state that the Battalion of Sung Cheh-yuan's twenty-ninth route army at midnight clashed with a battalion of Japanese troops when carrying out manoeuvres in the neighbourhood of Fengtai. Both rushed reinforce- ment to the scene. Light-artillery and machine-gun-fire is proceeding and a severe engagement is reported to be place taking.

A message from Peiping states that armistice was declared at 10a.m. The Japanese conditions specify the withdrawal of Chinese forces from the Lukouchino. district by 11 am.

AREA LATER MESSAGE STATES THAT THE ARMISTICE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOON, THE CHINESE MILITARY HEADS HAVING RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM NANKING TO LOCALIBE THE INCIDENT. THE CHINESE ALLEGE THAT THE CLASH WAS PROVOKED BY THE JAPANESE FIRING ON A CHINESE OUTPOST.

From Peiping it was stated that the armistice was broken at 11.40 a.m. by a thundering gun-fire which folloiced a break-down in the Sino-Japanese peace nego. tiations.

Nanking, July 8.

It is officially stated that units of the twenty-ninth Route Army held up at Fengtai a Japanese troop train from Tientsin bound for Lukuchiso-Reuter, Pelping nighting, ended at 9.30 Chinese military ronghold was

after the Japanese had shelled occupied by the Japanese who are Wangping, a small walled city

near the Marco Polo bridge, des- pursuing, and

troying several houses. The Chin the retreating Chi

ese claim that some twenty Chin-scores or

ese, soldiers, and at least ten

civilians

were killed and wounded. LAUWANGMIAO TAKEN

Tienfain

A Japanese commiunt states that Luwangmiao, the

Marriage Bill

HOUSE OF LORDS

AMENDMENT

London, July 8:

The House of Lords to-day dis- cussed the Marriage Bill which is at present in Committee stage.

The part of the Bill under dis- cussion is that" no petition for divorce should be allowed to be made until after five years of marriage.

It was proposed to amend the limit of time to three years and also to allow petitions to be made In shorter periods in special cases. -Rester's Bulletin Service.

JAPANESE TROOPS RUSHED TO FENGTAI

Tientsin, July 8, Tuelve Japanese tanks, eight. field guas and a number of troop laden lorries were rushed to Fengtai, from Tiantsin this afternoon,

Meanwhile twelve Japanese tanke paraded in the Chinese city here and twa Japanese planes circled Overhead-Reuter

SHANGHAI TO CANTON, BY RAILWAY

Nanking, July 7.

It has been previously reported. through rallway trafne. between Shanghai and Canton would com- mence in the 'spring of next year, but, owing to the urgency of pre- sent trafe demands, the Central Government Department of Rail- ways had decided to allow through traffic from November 1 next~-

Chinese Evening Prem...

LA MERI

Another SuccessTM At The King's

Once again La Meri, the brilliant artiate, who, won warm applause when, she gave her first per- formance in the Colony on Mon- day, delighted a very large and appreciative audience at the King's Theatre last night,

Her performance was endowed with gorgeous ligating, with simple and colourful scenes increased in impressiveness by the brilliant costumes worn by her, coupled with perfect music production..

Beautiful and charming were her dance numbers.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, presenting to Earl Baldwin a volume containing resolu- tions of appreciation passed by Conservative and Unionist Associations throughout the country. The photograph, taken "during a meeting of the Central Council of the Conservative party, at Friends' House, Euston-road, N.W., shows also Countess Baldwin (left) and Mrs. Chamberlain.

CHINA'S NATIONAL RENAISSANCE

POTENCY OF THE "NEW LIFE MOVEMENT"

THE EDITOR

*When you think of Chins don't think of one nation. - That is all wrong. Think of" Chink as- you would of Europe," because China contains within her väst ferritory Provinos-which are- different in sentiment and conception as Germany is from France, or Italy from Spain. Get that into your head and you'll get the right perspective.”

So aid one of the acknowledged authorities on Chinese affairs in conversation with me shortly after I arrived in Hong Kong

Some months later, conversing at an official banquet in honour of the late Mayor of Canton with a multi-millionaire Chinese who finds domicile under the British flag in Hong Kong more satisfy- ing than under his own national flag in China, he dealared, "The basis for the unification of China must be absolutely commercial, financial. It is no use talking platitudinously about theories of Govern- ment and the idealism of the Now Life Movement. Fancial prosperity spells national happiness.. Unity will be the natural result. Nothing else can do it."

Others, whom one was justified in presuming were in a parition" to know what they were talking about, assured me, and have persisted in their contentions whenever I have met them, that the party which controls Ching to-day, the famour Kuomintang, is so hopelessly divided into two camps-one süle leaning towards Communistic the other towards Democratic principles of administration that the unity. of China in as "far, distant to-day as it was before the advent of the Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek, when he succeeded the immortalized Dr. Sun Faktem. These people accuse the leaders of the Kuomintang of being musceptible to graft and they stigmatise the whole political machine of China as being “rid- died with rattenuess," to quote the words of a leading financier in Hong Kong.

All these comments and many, last, have missed the main point being carried along the road to many more, made to me by people which represents the pivot of acinity by the sheer enthusiasm and of proven ability and high position of the New China. It is a altruism of her, leaders, and the tions stimulated in me a desire to act as I see it, that to-day China New Life Movement is bringing about this remarkable transforma- tion from piracy to puritanism

search for myself and ascertain

just what was at the bottom of it is being swept from north to south all I have come to the conclusion by s mighty wave of evangeliam. that they, as materialists first and | and that China's millions are

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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THE WEATHER FLOOD DISASTER

A report issued by the Royal Observatory states that 0.32 Inches of rain were recorded during”, the 24 hours ended at 10 am, yester

Warning Repeated day This brings the years total

to 4274 inches, against an average of 41.579

Wednesday's maximum tempera

MANY PERISHIN DUTCH BORNEO

London, July & Disistrous floods are reported to ture was 89 degs with a night have occurred in Dutch Borneo in minimum of 75 degs. Yesterday as number of towns on the River

In out?

ge number of houses were

by the rushing waterm damages were suffered

For dramatle highlights La Meri had plenty of reserve and through the transitions, the seriousness and humour she "alternatively display- ed she captured with delicacy and emotional stress every refinement.

She chose a magnidcent selec- The Hong Kong General Cham- tion of Spanish, interpretative and ❘ber of Commerce'irepeats in this racial dances, and enhanced their issue the warning notice to manu- beauty with her own creations and facturers and exporters of plece 10 am, the temperature was 83 Bal originality, the quality of which goods as to the necessity for the same hour the day before, with dega, or two degrees lower than at is rarely seen in theatrical circles spun, woven and finished in the humidity down to 87. The maxt In this Colony,

Big Britian Empire” certifcate Brought to the stage in all the

mum temperature yesterday" was The notice has been slightly 880 degy, this reading being taken dreamlike beauty of mysterious amended to make it clear that the rat 4 pm, the highest temper. It is estimated at present that India, this splendid performance advice to book no further business ture on July 8, 1936 was 80.1 dege, the death Entroduced the handsome young Hong Kong-inade piece-goods and the lowest 76.0 dess.. dancer, Bassano Ramgopal, who does not apply if there is nothing brilliantly performed the Mayura bus British Empire yarn in the Nrittys (the playful dance of a factory. It has been pointed out peacock in a garden), and Indra that a good deal of Indlan yarn is (the god of clouds, stars, thunder, either in the factories or on the lightning and elements, here I presented riding Iravato, his white which has nothing but Indian way from India. Any factory elephant, on the clouds)

yarn on "the premises would be least charming of Le well advised to put themselves in-

White.

to the hands of accountants and which have a stock-taking Then they visualisation of the will be able to produce the neces

JAPANESE CASUALTIES Tokyo A memage from the Pélying: Japanese Military Head-

Tam stated that ·Mort's" danÇÜS- her omcer was killed and Peacoc

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THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 1-244, TT. ON NEW YORE: 30-3/16.

London Silver Murket

21 persons have been killed but "expected to be

higher leuter's Bulletin Service

NEWS INDEX

Amusements Cables

tago

in Hong Kong,.

(From Our Own Correspondent) London, July 8. London diver prices to-day ware Local The

sary evidence that the output has up 1/8 for "Spot and 1/16 for Mall nach, which she danced in masterly style, hav-the British Empire that is to

been "spun woven and, finished in Forward" as follow

Radio Ing grace and charm that made it

Bay, spun in India and completed Spot (Continued on Back Fris).

Finance

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