FRANCO-JAPANESE
TENSION
Caution Advised
London, August 2.
The dangerous tension between French and Japanese troops in Tientsin at the International Bridge over the river Pelho. causes much comment in the papers here.
According to the reports, the Japanese demanded the right to cross the bridge, but this was denied them by the French troops, who placed tanks in position in order to offer armed re- sistance if necessary,
The tension originated in the alleged cutting of telephone » communication between the French concession and French troops by the Japanese, who are also accused of having fred upon French soldiers at the eastern rallway station at Tients with machineguns, whereby a non-commissioned officer is said to have been wounded.-Transocean News Services.
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tion is advocated by the Radical Socialists in the paper "Republi- que", which at the same time de-
not oppose,
Reterring to the Franco-Japanese incident at Tientsin, the paper advises that France should care- fully avoid anything tat would be detrimental to her prestige in the Far East, as the Oriental" people despised those who lose their face.
AMBASSADOR PROTESTS Paris: The French Ambassador in Tokyo has been Instructed to protest to the Japanese Govern-mands that France for reasons of ment regarding the alleged ag- ] foreign policy must gression committed by Japanese Japan. troops in. Tientsin against French sentries and also regarding the in- terruption of telephone communi- cation between the French con- cession and the arsenal, according to papers here, which add that Foreign Minister M. Yvon Delbon already got in touch with the Japanese Ambassador in Paris, Mr. Sugimura on the subject The papers express the hope that the incident will soon be settled.-. Transocean News Service.
RADICAL SOCIALISTS ADVISE CAUTION.
Paris: An extremely cautions handling of the Far Eastern situa-
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, former Prime Minister, who to-day cele- brates his 70th birthday.
Indo-China Empire, whose 30 mil- The paper points to the French
Hon inhabitants were controlled by a handful of soldiers, and Hopes that the Tientsin incident will '; have no repercussions especially since the French troops in China consist, mostly of Annamites.— Pranacean New. ServiCE
ITALIAN
AIR CRASH
NINE PERSONS KILLED
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, · 1937.
ATLANTIC CROSSED
UNDER FOUR DAYS
Normandie Sets New Record
London, August 2.
The first liner to cross the Atlantic in under four days is the Normandie which accomplished the journey between Bishop's Rock and the Ambrose Lightship in three days 23 hours 2 minutes." This is one hour better than her previous record for a voyage from east to west and also sa hour better than the west to cast record with which she took the Blue Riband from the EMS. Queen Mary-Renter's Bul- letin Service.
LINER'S SPEED
Paris, Aug. 2." The French liner Normandie (82.799 tons) esatblished a new re- cord on her voyage from Le Havre to New York. The Normandie covered the "Blue riband" stretch
from Bishop's Light to Ambrose Light at an average speed on 30,58 knots.--
The Normandie, owned by the Cle Generalë Transatlantique, was built in 1933 and is quadruple screw,
Japanese Residents Evacuate Hankow
Nankow, August 2: The first group of Japanese residents. voluntarily to evacuate the Hankow district, the families of six employees of the Hankow branch of the Mitsui Bassau Kaisha left here for Shanghai, it is revealed. Others are expected to follow.
Effective protection of Japanese residents in Hupeh Pro- „ vince is understood to have been pledged by General Ho Cheng- chun, focal pacification commisioner, in a meeting with Com- mander Masaichi Kamada, resident Japanese naval officer this afternoon.
General Ho 19 said to have asssur- ed the Japanese official that or- ders already have been given to insure the safety of lives and pro- perty of Japanese residents in the provinec. He advised that the Japanese lyng in the district un- der his jurisdiction proceed about
PRESS COMMENT
London, Aug. 1.. The situation in the Far East | must continue to engage the For
Wadihalfa, Aug. 2., Four passengers and five mem-eign Secretary's attention, if only bers of the crew were killed when in the continued representation of the Italian south-bonud air liner the wisdom of a peaceful settle- "Ala-Littoria" crashed. The ma-ment between China and Japan, chine was about to land when the declares the Daily Telegraph" in pilot decided not to do so. The an editorial to-day on the adjourn- Beroplane touched the aerodrome ment of Parliament. ground, bounced 90 feet in the air,
The outside world
burst into names, plunged to the pretend to be disinterested in a cannot earth and was completely destroy-conflict that is destroying the ed.--
ordered life of North China. Reuter...
OFFICIALS LEAVE FOR SCENE
Cairo, Aug. 2.
their business without fear for their safety.
The Chinese authorities also re ported to be taking adequate steps to suppress rumours and not to permit the ill effects of the North China situation on local finances.
Enion New
Corps
attacked the Japanese troops, and fierce fighting is in progress.
The Chinese troops have gained the upper hand, and the Japanese have suffered heavy losses in ota- cers and men.
Out of a garrison of over 400 Japanese, only 85 remain.
It is reported that the Tientsin Japanese Command sending strong re-inforcements for the re-
hinese Bvening Press. lef of Tungchow-
SITUATION AT SWATOW While war clouds hang over set-
Shanghai. August 1. Hons of Europe and Asia, the
It la reported that the Japanese Parliamentary holiday season must war-ships are arriving in Swatow still be one of watchfulness. The from Formosa, on the plea of pro-
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FRANCE AND THE FAR EAST
article
Representatives of the Italian outlook is still uncertain, though/tecting their nationals
FUTURE POLICY
reasonable demands to the City Paris, Aug.2: In an Commander of the Swatow Defence cialist paper "Republique" outlines the future policy of France in the Far East.
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DISSENSION IN RED ARMY
RECENT CLASHES
Harbin, Aug. 2 The
recent clashes between Japanese and Soviet troops are seen here as evidence of intensified
HITLER RECEIVES
TURKISH MINISTER
Berlin, Aug.2. Chancellor Hitler received this, morning the Turkish Minister for Pubile Works, All Cetinkaya, who, was accompanied by the Turkish Ambassador.
The Minister has been staying for the last ten days in Germany
Company "Ala-Littoria" to which better in Europe, as Mr. Antohny the plane belonged; left Cairo by Eden, Foreign Secretary recently | Authorities, General L Han-wen.published to-day, the Radical So- dissension between the political where he Inspected the latest de- FINE WEATHER air for Wadi Halfa immediately on claimed, than has been the case
receipt of the news in order to for the past twelve months......... investigate the Cause of the Reuter.
BANK HOLIDAY
IN LONDON
2
disaster.- Transocean News Service.
COUNCIL RESIGNS
London, Aug. 2. Fine weather favoured Angust
Bangkot. Aug. 2. bank holiday makers yesterday and
Following a three-day debate the to-day "there was never a cloud
assembly of the Peoples' Repre- after 10 a.m. in London and near-sentatives finally accepted the re- by districte. In the capital the signation of the Council Regency parks and swimming pools were It is hoped that the names of crowded with holiday makers who the new regency body will shortly were unable to go further afield. be announced. Traffic on land, sea and air created
Reuter. new records; 72 trains left for Channel port yesterday while it was estimated that by midnight on Saturday 30,000 passed Dover en- route to the continent. In south- ern England, Portsmouth, Ply- mouth, and Chatham the Navy are at home to the British public tor
a week.- Keuter's Bulletin Service..
TEN KILLED
Piraeus, Aug. 2. Two great steamers carrying holiday makers collided in Piraeus
harbour to-day causing the death
of
ten persons and thirty are
at present milening-
British Wireless Service.
Sail For South
---
Vladivostok, Aug. 2. Five warships of the U.S. Astatic Fleet which have been paying a courtesy visit to Vladivostok for the last two days sailed for the south to-day.-
Heuter's Bulletin Berved
FRENCHMEN EXECUTED
St. Jean de Luz, Aug. 1. Two Frenchmen, Louis Chabrát and Jean Baugennec, condemned to death by a military court
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Forces has sworn to resist all acts of aggression with death- Chinese Evening Press.
"IN TIENTSIN
and military commissions of the velopments in transport and Red Army. The recent purge of dustrial enterprises in Berlin, the Soviet forces is said to have Dresden and Hamburg and the Been intended by the Stalin re- Uhr District.......
to suppress the military Transurean Neus Service. Faction, which is Armly opposed to Intervention in military strategy by the political commission.
ANGLO-ITALIAN SETTLEMENT
Rome, Aug. 2
The paper states that represen tatives of France in the Far Eastgime should keep strictly "neutral in a confict which does not concern
ofcials France. French
and soldiers must avoid carefully any The Amur River trouble follow- thing that could be unfavourable ed a difference between these two to the Japanese. Certainly the elements in the Far Eastern Army. The Ballan Foreign Minister, Japanese were looked upon ask The director of the political com-Count Clano, received the British ance by that part of the French mission received orders from For-Ambassador, Bir Eric Drummond, that sympathised with the Soviets, eign Comissar Maxim Litinov to this morning for an interview but such sentimental questions evacuate the Soviet troops from lasting for a considerable time. must not interfere with France's the two islets. However, the mill- Well-informed foreign policy. Japan, the paper tary commission fatly rejected that the visit was connected with circles believe asserts, was a strong power, grow these instructions, with the result efforts for an Anglo-Italian settle ng continously.
that an open clash with the ment in China Japanese-Manchukuo forces re-
Interesta
BOMBARDMENT OF HSIAOLIU UNLIKELY
Tientsin, Aug. 2.
Fientic, August« 1. Alleviating tension here, the This morning-gun-fire ceased, Japanese military authorities are ceased, and silence now reigna. reported to have intimated that a The Chinese City and its environs bombardment of Hsiaollu 18 un-are still disturbed." likely.
A peace preservation commission Meanwhile, Chinese constables, was formed on Saturday, and Ko toning in the Chinese city where of the Commission wearing winter uniforms, are func-Lin-wei was appointed Chairman
conditions are gradually returning Chinese Evening Press. to normal.
WAR REFUGEES A tour of Tientsin reveals a de-
Tientsin, August 2. pressing scene. of destruction.
All Chinese newspapers in Pel- The Central Post Office is still oc-plug and Tenten have ceased cupied by Japanese and the postal publication. authorities are still negotiating for printed in Shanghai for re-ship-Indo-China and the Pacific did not the resumption of their posts.
ment to Tientsin,
permit
with antagonism A meeting of the Consular body It is reported that the number | Japan yesterday decided to convey to the of War Japanese authorities the hope that 300,000. The City Hospital holds that regarding China, Frenchmen
refugees is
the paper states the light of refugees would De at present about one thousand must not make the same mistake speedily amellorated, Thousands wounded soldiers and refugees,
as did various Frenchmen in sup- of these people fed from their At the first the Japanese wished porting the Negus of Abyssinia homes during the Japanese bom-to bomb this hospital, but they and the Valencia Government- bardment
were prevented by the British' and Transocean News Service.” Reuter
other foreign consuls.--- Chinese Evening Press.
JAPAN SENDS SECOND ARMY COEF'S TO CHINA
Shanghai, August 2 According to the opinions of
STRIKING ITALIAN PRESS COMMENTS
Rome, Aug. 1. / Practically the first authoritative Italian Press comment on the re-
Virginio Gayda, who says that Japan's advance from its 'islands
Some
being are
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that war between China and Japan will break out in four or five days
time."
France's
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Concluding.
GRAVE. ANXIETY FELT
Tsingtao, August-1. Fears of grave developments in the North China situation pre- cipitated the wholesale exodus of Tsingtao to-day. Yesterday alone over 20,000 Chinese were estimated to have left the port.
Japanese families, who are con- centrating here from other parts of Shantung, are also returning to Japan in boatloada Reuter
sulted,
Bince a great many military off- cials are still firmly opposed to the is believed Inevitable that the Red Interference by the politicians, it Army purge may be extended to the Far East-
nion News
It is not unlikely that Count Ciano handed to the Ambassador. and announced the answer of Signor Mussolint to the letter of Transocean News Service. the British Prime Minister,
FORMER GERMAN MINISTER PASSES
Berlin, Aug. 1. Herr Frederick von Rosenberg. German Foreign Minister during the time of the occupation of the Ruhr, in 1922-23, died here to day
longer its existence in space which has long since become too narrow The paper opines that the General'saimo, as a clever states- man, knows full well how greatly Reuten, Ching is interior from a military viewpoint to Japan with her up paper believes that General Calang Kai-shek is likely to play a bolitičar
The sudden attack on Lakonu- role in coming events rather than chlao and the invasion of North smilitary one Transocean News Service
the present threat from Japan in respondent.
martial on charges of espionage cent developments in the Far East experienced observers 'it is believed the panic-stricken Chinese froma to-date equipment Hence the North China," writes a Bome cor- and attempting to spread the was published to-day in the Voce FIGHT WITH BANDITS |ness behind the Insurgent lines in
bacilli of typhus and sleeping sick d'Italia by the noted commentator,
Spain, have been executed before a firing squad.' - Shanghai, Aug. 2.
This announcement was contain Eight Japanese soldiers and one ed in a radic message from Manchukuo driver were killed in peluna broadcast to-day. a battle with bandits on Friday 12 Reuter
kilometers south-east of Kalyuan,,
it was announced to-day,
The unit, led by Major Shigeru
It has also been ascertained to the terra firma of Asia is a fatal, from a reliable source that an historical movement of a dense other Japanese Army Corps has Pem-population of warriors and work-been ordered to China, and that it will land at Tsingtao, Shantung era, which cannot be contained ta
Province. an inadequate "territory".
"We must therefore expect that one of these days, after a series of "POISON AGAINST FRANCO
battles and diplomatic disputes, the world will learn that Japan Paris, Aug. 2, has established control over a new Sensational revelations were portion of China." Gayda conclad
Okada, encountered the brigands about 8 o'clock in the morning. After two hours and a half of made by the "Le Journal" con- ed fighting, the Japanese were over-ceming the introduction of typhoid Reuter. whelmed, and nine men were dead, and sleeping sickness baccili into including Major Okada and Cap- Nationalist Spain, for which crime. tain Toyo Bakamoto, according to two Frenchmen have already been & Japanese report
shot at Pamplona.--- Union News.
can "New: Bervics
FIGHTING IN TUNGCHOW
Protingfu, August 1. At noon to-day the Chinese troops of the Peace Preservation
On Sunday 1st General Hon Fuk-kue, Chairman of the Bhan- tung Provincial Government called
POLITICAL HOLE RATHER THAN
MILITARY
SOVIET CONSULATE RAIDED Shanghai, August 1. A correspondent from the Tass Agency reports that White Rus sians accompanied by Japanese Tentsin yesterday and seized all raided the Soviet Consulate at the documents
Reuter
Rome, August 2. The Far Eastern confilet is die on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, cussed by the Gironale d'Italia" and General Feng Yu-hsiang, the in a leading article in which, after Christian General, and held a recalling that "We are now i long conference with them regard-m'ddle of an evolutionary process In the
CHINESE MEMORANDUM".. ing the present situation. the Far East" it la stated that
TO MR. EDEN This conference is proof of the the Japanese penetration into It is announced by the Chinese loyalty of General Hon Fuk-kue to the Aalatie Continent is an in- Embassy that the Chinese Ambas the Nanking Central Government, dispensable necessity for an indugador called on Mr. Eden and pre- and dispel all the false rumours, which have been in circulation.
trious nation which have reached sented & memorandum, from the e high degree of military efficiency Nanking Government, setting forth Chinese Evening Pres.
China by large Japanese military forces (the Embassy statement continues) constitute a clear viola- tion of China's sovereignty, COD trary to the letter, and spirit of the Nine-Power Treaty, the Paris the League of Nations. Feace Pact, and the Covenant of
The National Government of China are bound to control close- ly the bands of settlement, since 15. in the method of the Japanese millary to promote disruption in North China by overzwing local authorities, pretending that such specious attempts at local negotia tions intended to mout the Nation- al Government are intended to minimize the "Incidents" that they
and which refuses to accept anythe status and circumstances of continually engineer
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