1937-07-21 — Page 9

North China War

(Continued from Page 1)

ULTIMATUMS

"Rarely Expire In

Far East

London, July 20. The following comment appeared in the Manchester Guardian" to- day:

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QUESTIONS IN COMMONS

London, July 20. Replying to Mr. C. R. Attice, leader of the Opposition Labour, Mr. Eden, Foreign Secretary, stated in the House of Commons that there was little to add to the in- formation given yesterday on the Ultimatums rarely expire in the Sino-Japanese situation. He had Far East where the art of bargain not yet received the terms of the ing is better understood than in the West.

Chinese reply to representations The Nanking Govern- ment having refused to accept the made on July 17 by the Japanese Japanese demands does not neces-Charge D'Affaires at Nanking. sarily mean it is the end of nego-Meanwhile he had received con- tiations. No doubt the situation is Armation of Generalissimo Chiang now critical. It is noticeable. Kai-shek's declaration.

however, that Chiang Kai Shek's The British Government, said statement expressly recognises the Mr. Eden, is continuing to keep in Hopel-Chahar Political Council close touch with every stage with only and insists that a settlement the other Governments particular- does not infringe China's terri- | ly concerned. torial integrity and sovereign Asked whether there was any rights. It cannot be, too, much truth in press reports of "Japanese emphasized that Nanking has bombardment of a Chinese town, taken no action which can be Mr. Eden said that as yet he had criticised as aggressive. If any 'no information.- secret agreement did exist denying | Reuter. China the right to move Chinese troops into Chinese province they have certainly nullified it by the arrival of the Japanese Army in that province.-. Reuter.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937.

SEVERE CUTS

Expenditure In France" Next Year

Paris, July 20. A meeting of Ministers has adopted. in principle "the severel cuts the 1938 expenditure, details of which will be fixed at a meet- ing between the Prime Minister. M. Chautemps, and the Principal of the Internal Spending Depart ments.

The decision has not affected the Public Works for three and a half millard francs has already beer decided for 1938.

The Finance Minister will create a fund for Defence Rentes and similar Exchange Equalisation fund. The Rentes will not be con- verted.

It is understood that this fund will be provided from the in- creased revaluation of the gold re- serve of the Bank of France on the basis of the gold content of the francs at 43 milligrammes.

Apparently at the time of the last devaluation, the reserve was revalged on a 10 milligramme bagia.

withdrawal of Central Government troops from Hopel if the Japanese withdrew all reinforcements sent to that province since the Lukon- chiao incident.

Hope that Sino-Japanese nego-pletely reversed.---. tiations at Tientsin might produce

Reuter. satisfactory reaults have now practically been abandoned.

replaces M. Lebeyrie as Governor M. Fournier, Deputy Governor, of the Bank of France, who was regarded as the guiding spirit of the financial policy of the Blum Government which is now com

PRESS COMMENT

London, July 20. "Morning Fost" in editorial states that it cannot be "Heve that face may not be saved without recourse to war which will profit: nobody: Japan might de-

The Japanese are still censoring feat China but she could not con-in-coming and out-going mails at quer her. Chica might

the Central Post Office, Tientsin. Japan but she will be terribly and the consular body is meeting weakened by the effort. Refer there to-day to draft a protest- ring to the statement by Mr. Eden

Renter. in the House of Commons" that the British Government will be happy to assist if there is any way in which she can contribute to wards a solution, the paper states that the offer should be of espe- elal value to Japan for whom Britain had never lost her feeling

of

friendship. With the con clusion of the agreement which is under negotiation, and which

would put Anglo-Japanese friend- ship on a firmer basis. Britain and Japan together would be able to co-operate. peacefully with China in the development of the greatest potential market in the world but peace is an indispensable con- dition, and without it all hope of progress in the Far East will be forgone for generations to come.- Reuter.

UNDERSTANDING REACHED? Tientsin, July 20: The Japanese military authori- ties state that an understanding has been reached between" the Japanese Command and a repre- sentative of the 29th Route Army.

The understanding

stipulates the steps to be taken by the Chi- nese authorities for suppression of Communist and anti-Japanese activities.

Renter

CLASH AT "LUKOUCHIAO

Tientsin, July 20. It is reported that a Sino-Ja- panese clash occurred at Lukou- chiao at 5.40 yesterday evening. for which each side blames the other.

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ANOTHER CONFERENCE

Nanking July 20. It is reported that Dr. Wang Chung-hut, Minister for Foreign Affairs. General Ho Ying-yam, Minister of War and other leading officials held another, conference in the Office of the Foreign Affairs Department. yesterday,

Telegrams received from Loo Shan have been notified for gene ral information.

To-day's Loo Shan conference discussed matters connected with North China- Chinese Evening Press!

JAPANESE ATTITUDE

Tientsin. July 20 At mid-night last night, the Japanese Army commanders issued a notice to the effect that if fr ing by the Chinese troops does not cease, the Japanese troops in North China will take matter into their own hands and act as they please from this afternoon.

The notice also states that the Japanese refuse to listen to any further Chinese explantions,

Japanese omicers also declare that the Chinese troops stationed at Lukuochlao, started firing at Japanese troops again yesterday. Chinese Evening Press.

JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS

ARRIVE

Pelping, July 20... Reports from different quarters state that yesterday over 1,600 The engagement appeared to Japanese troops consisting of ca- valry and artillery arrived in Tien- tsin from Shanhaikwan.

have been only a brief affair- Renter.

ON THE BRINK OF WAR

Shanghai, July 20,

On the 18th instant 300 Japan- ese troops seized and occupied the "Korean" Barracks, and yesterday.

The rapid events of the past 24 they prepared a site close by for

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hours find China and Japan 'on the brink of war, with hope of a last-minute change for the better fast vanishing.

Japanese military factions in Tientsin threaten to take free ac- tion to-day unless Chinese troops

cease "Illegal actions."

their aeroplanes.

and

troops started to are at the Chi

Yesterday Japanese plain clothes nese troops, stationed at Tayu chang and Tainglungchino, when the Chinese troops returned the fire, they fled.- Chinese Evening Preu.

JAPANESE LEAVE FOR HOME

DEATH OF INVENTOR

OF WIRELESS

Marchese Marconi Dies

From Heart Attack

Rome, July 20.

Marchese Guglielmo Marcont, Bon, G. C. V. O., Hon. D.Sc (Ox- ford), Hon. LL.D, (Glasgow), Hog, M. Inst. C. E. the famous In- ventor of wireless telegraphy died at 330 am.. from a heart at tack. He was 64 years of age..

Burn in Bologn, in 1874 the son of an Irishwoman. Marconi was educated at Leghorn, and Bologna University. Later he developed wireless telegraphy by which the first transoceanic message · was telegraphed in 1962; his system

was established on a business basis' in 1907.

In receiving the honorary degree at Oxford of Doctor of Science, Marconi was called "the magician who found a way pf transmitting signals from share to shore,, and trom ship to ship."

The State acquired his shore stations for transmitting to ships In 1909, in which year he received Stockholm. the Nobel Prize for Physics.

orary "G.C.V.O. on Chevaller Mar- King George bestowed the hon-

cont in July. 1914 and in 1915 Marconi was appointed a Senator by the King of Italy.

In

Hon.

1905, Marconi married the Beatrice O'Brien but the marriage was dissolved in 1924.

Marconi

the ideas that a system of tele-' graphy through space could be provided by means of electric waves, the existence of which had been foreseen mathematically: by CEASE TO ACCEPT ORDERS

His second wife was Countess a clerk, Maxwell, in 1864 and later Owing to the gravity of the at-

Maria Bezi-Scali whom he "mar-investigated experimentally by titude in North China, it is reported on June 12, 1937, A daughter Heinrich Herts, Oliver Lodge and

ed that the leading Japanese arms doing extensive import busi- ness in the Colony have ceased to: accept orders for goods.

It is reported that the decision is due to fears of the outbreak of war-

Chinese Evening Preas

JAPANESE IN CANTON

Canton, July 20. Since the Lukouchiao clash, and the arrival of large bodies of

Japanese troops in North China, and the uncertainty of the nego tiations for a settlement, the Can- ton Authorities have taken every precaution for the protection of Japanese residents in Canton City and elsewhere.

was born in 1933.

A marquessate was conferred on Marconi by the King of Italy in

June, 1929, "

וד.

Marconi received the freedom of the City of Rome In 1903.

The famous inventor also held numerous foreign decorations in- Order of Savoy, Grand Cross of cluding Chevaller of the Civil

the Order of Alphonso XII, and Order of St. Anne. His recreations

others.

Marconi was the first to devise

the practical means by which these waves could provide a revolution- ary method of telegraphic com- munication. He cae to England in 1898 and took out the first patent

ever

granted for wireless tele-

in the following year a cumpany graphy based on electric wayes andƐ

was formed in England to develop his ideas. These progressed by cycling, motoring and yachting.century, 1901 in fact, that a great Reuter

were hunting, stages but it was not until the next

A

GMA PEACEFUL DEATH NOT

Rome, July 20,

stride forward was achieved with the apparatus designed by Mar- con which transmitted signals In is learned that Marconi first across the Atlantic from Polday, felt ill on Sunday evening from Cornwall to St. John's, Newfound- Yesterday, the Japanese Consul heart symptoms which were

land, a distance over 2000 miles. paid a friendly call on Mr. Tyao, newed at 1 3.m. to-day.

Since then Marconi's imagination the Commissioner for Foreign death. Was peaceful. Affairs, and mentioned that the to an earlier report the Marchessbuted enormously to the extraor-- Contrary an dtechnical skill have contri- settlement of the. Swatow affair and daughter were present at the dinary developments in the use of had been delayed by the outbreak death-bed arriving at the house wireless which this century has of trouble in North China.

from the country at 7

re- Bis

am 'seen.

arg

ese in Shameen are carrying on as

It is reported that the Japan-unaware of the Senator's passing Numerous tributes to him

to spend the little girl's birthday paid by British usual, and they do not show any

scientists and in Rome.

other leading men in Britain which Indication of returning to Japan- Chine Brening Press,

has shared with Italy in the deve-

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Mussolini visited the body at 8.30

PROFOUND REGRET

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THE MUPISAI PROBLEM

S.P.C. Debate On

Subject

Black was appointed Creche Hon... Secretary as a llaison officer be tween the Executive Committee cl the Ecciety and the Creche Super- vizory Committee. She was also appointed a member of the Execu tive Committee for this purpose.

A lengthy discussion took place at the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the So

The case reports showed that clety for the Protection of Chil-

the average income per head per dren, presided over by Mr. J. T

month of families dealt with by Prior. on the question of the 80% the Society during June was 32.23 in the Eastern diatrich and 1.57 in Kowloon,

ciety" making representations to the Government on the mul-tsa) problem.

The debate arose on а

motion

lopment a.m. The body was läter taken to'

revolutionary the Italian Academy where it is scientific ideas. On all sides he is now lying. It is stated the funeral acknowledged to have been one of

The finance report showed that It was learned here yesterday Reuter.

will be held at 6 p.m. to-morrow. the greatest geniuses of recent put forward by a member to the for the Society's current year to from the authorities that, in the

effect "that an inquiry be na- date, income had exceeded expen opinion of officials, there is no

Flags on Broadcasting House are dressed to the Government asking diture by 18,063.15. Included in flying half mast to-day in recogni- whether it intends, in the near reason yet for British nationals to

Londen, July 20.

the income was a sum of £4,000 withdraw from Shanhaikwan, Marchese Marconi, famous wire-death, a unique figure in wireless the question of mui-tsal or other Auxiliary and another me

tion of the fact that with Marcont's future, to introduce legislation on transferred from the Women's. Chinwangtao, Pettaho, Tongshan less pioneer, died in Rome early has passed away. and Tangku, as they are still re- this morning after a short heart

children out of the control of $1.200 from Mr. L. Fo-chun, being siding there.

The BBC has issued a state- their parents, and. If so, to request attack. Marconi, who was 64 years ment expressing its profound re-

a year's contribution in advance Several Britons are living with-old, developed in boyhood a keen gret, in which all listeners will posed Bill might be forwarded to creche.

interest in physical and electrical share, in the death of one to whom

that an advance copy of the pro- for the maintenance of the new

science, which was later to re-broadcasting throughout the world thereon." volutionize the methods of com- owed an immeasurable debt.—

SHANGHAI WORK

municating. In 1895 he conceived British Wireless.

in two miles of Tientsin and a scheme has been devised to bring them into the city in the case of

emergency,

LOCALISE ISSUE

Canton, July 20.

The Japanese Consul-General,

China

the Society for its observations

The motion was eventually de- feated, the main ground of op position being that the matter was a controversial one and that if the Society were to intervene, dis- Ita

ranks.

With regard to Anglo-American Toyotch! Nakamura when Inter-co-operation, Viscount Cranborne of a happy outcome in North sension might be caused in

a glimmer of hope, the prospects viewed by a representative of a gave assurances that "Government | China are considered very slight. cern over the happenings in North Dnited States. "We have been in declaration, in the fashion set by local paper expressed great con- Intended to move along with the War, if it comes will be without

NEW CRECHE touch with the Washington Gov-Japan in Manchuria in 1931, it is

In connection with the new Questioned, whether Japan wants ernment and shall continue to believed. It is expected the first week in Clarence Terrace, Mrs. D. creche which is being opened this in North China entirely separate Reuter to establish an independent state keep touch."--

from Nanking, the Consul stated that Japan has no political ambi- tion nor territorial aggrandize-

The Japanese military attache at Nanking. General Belichi Kita,, has delivered "a last warning." He communicated with the Nan-

inent. Shanghai, July 20. king Government last night and

Mr. Nakamura added that it has It is reported that in accor- fave the Japanese War Office's dance with the orders of the the issues and to settle the matter been the policy of Japan to localise message to China This, in effect, Japanese Government, one-half of demands the withdrawal of Cen- the Japanese residing in the dif-locally and not to aggravate the tral Government troops and air-ferent parts of China have return- craft from Hopel

ed to Japas. Replying earlier to the Japanese Judging from the departure of demands, the Chinese Government so many Japanese, foreign obser- suggested that a date be axed for vers are of the opinion that war between Japan and China is in-

the simultaneous cessation of military movements by both sides evitable.— and the withdrawal of troops to Chinese Evening Pri

the positions held before the

Lakouchino incident. It was ́em-

phasised that Ching was prepared

to enter into negotiations with Ja-

CAAF SLAST WARNINGTM

crisis. Union News.

AN IMMENSE DANGER"!

London, July 19, Viscount Cranborne Under Secretary of State for foreign Affairs, in debate in the House of Commons to-night, said that far as the British Government knew neither the Chinese nor the "Japanese wished to resort to the "dreadful arbitrament of war.

JAPANESE TROOPS LEAVE FOR LUKOUCHIAO

Pelping July 20. pan through diplomatic channels. It is reported that at mid-night "There is an immense danger yesterday, a company of about that they may drift into war, but 1.000 Japanese troops stationed at it is the British Government's Fengtal, proceeded to Lukuochlao sincere hope that an amicable The services of His Majesty's Government were always available to assist in reaching any such set- tlement.

Japanese objectives will be the occupation of Pelping and Tien- tair, but it is feared that hostili- ties will not be confined to North

It was reported that during her holiday Misa Seto Wal-cheung, Society's Inspector, had paid visits. to three centres of child welfare work in Shanghai, where she had made an intensive study both from the nutritional and educa tional points of view. She had also visited similar centres in Nanking. It was decided to ask mittee on the work she had seen, Miss Seto to report to the Com-

The meeting dealt with several cases, and in regard to one of these it was reported that a lad who had been educated by the

ment position at a salary of Society had now secured a Gov-

per month, Those present at the meeting in

the Hon Bir Henry Pollock, the

DR. KUNG IN LONDON.

London, July 20.

"We are anxious for peace, but Dr. H. Kung, Finance Minis-China TU ter, who arrived from New York.

not for peace at any cost," insisted interviewed by Reuter declined to preparations in other centres, and day's semi-ocial assertion that

Indeed, the Chinese are making Marshal Chiang, denying yester

detailed information from Nan- ed around Shanghai. Soldiers are volution to avoid war with Japan. make a statement pending more a number of trope are concentrat Ching would risk anything but re- king: He opined that North China digging themselves in at Woosung, "To seek peace once war has been addition to the Chairman were appeared now to be the issue scene of severe fighting between begun would only mean the s Hon. Dr. L Shu-n, the Rev. between the Tokyo Government Japanese and Chinese only five Juzation of the nation and the w. Baines, the Rev. Fr. Bruzdone, and the Kwantung Army ex years ago tremists The Minister is looking

Pure compete annihilation of the race,” Both sides are anxious not to

Dr. Basto, Dr. (Mrs.) Davey, Mrs. He contended that, obviously, the Crozier, Miss Brazier, Messra, G. in good health and has abandoned involve non-combatants. For ex- Lukouchias incident was not a P. de Marth. FH Loseby, A. his visit to Nauheim for treatment, ample, General Sun Cheb-yuan sudden or accidental development, Hicks J. Middleton Smith, D. L He was glad to say that if he was has assured the Japanese authowe must realise that the other Skinner, J. M. Noronha D. Black feeling no better he certainly was rities that the civilians in Hope! side has a very definite purpose JM. Wong, Ngan Shing-Kwan, no worse. The length of his stay and Charhar will be fully protect towards us and peace cannot easily and Mrs. D. G. McAvoy · (Hon. in Landon depends on the Far Eastern situation

Secretary)

Router,

GLOOMY ATMOSPHERE

Shanghai, July, 20.

of the past twelve hours has The rapid development of events

throughout China especially in commercial circles

ed.

Reuter

MINIMUM CONDITIONS

- Kuling, July 20,

elared to-day that the four points Marmal Chiang Kai-shek de

of his reply to Japan's demands, which stress Nanking's authority In North China affairs, are the While the Oriental genius for minimum conditions possible as a last-minute compromises provides basis of negotiations with Tokyo,

This reply was followed by the delivery of General Kita's last

in response to which by way of the Tachang Village arrangement will be reached created the gloomlest atmosphere General Ho Ying-ching. War They were followed by over ten Minister, pointed out that the cul- guns and numberous ammunition nese were acting in self-defence, waggons. but were prepared to consider Chinese Evening Fren

TYPHOON WARNING

De secured.00

"If we allow Lukouchino to be forcibly occupied, the result will. be that our ancient capital (Pet- ping) will be lost. Peiping will be

and Charhar will share the fate of The Manila Observ come a second Mukden, and Hopel our four North-eastern

We are not making wa

at 8.35 a.m. to-day meeting an attack upon our ex- We are stence, he ma Reuter

a typhoon in about Lat. 14 N

tion is in the Pacife to

of Southern Luzon

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