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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937,

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NORTH CHINA

CHINA WAR BOMB EXPLODES

REQUEST REJECTED | FIGHTING |

Shanghai: The Chinese Mayor Mr. O. K. Tul has rejected the re- quest of the International Truce Commission formed after the hos=" tilities in 1932 to withdraw the 88th Division from Shanghai area. He contended the request should be refrered to Nanking through diplomatic channels-Reater.

JAPANESE STRATEGY

Nanking. Aug. 12. Flerce fighting is proceeding be- tween the Chinese and Japanese troops in the" Jehol area, and it is reported that the chief aim of the

Japanese militarists is to blockade Nankow, so as to prevent the union of the northern and sou- thern of the Chinese armies.-- Bader.

TROUBLE MAKERS ACTIVE

Shanghai, Aug. 12.

corps of It is reported that a 300 plain clothes Japanese are secretly operating in the western area of Shanghai, and the strange aeroplanes have been observed cir.

cling over Loongwha,

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IN TIENTSIN.

PUKOW SECTOR

Tientsin, Aug. 12.

GLOOMY VIEW TAKEN

London Aug. 12.

Chinese were two per cent and Japanese one one per cent lower

IN PALACE OF ARCHBISHOP

MANILA INCIDENT CAUSES ALARM

was

Manila, August. 12.

THE SPANISH WAR

Insurgents' Claim

Advance On Santander

GEN. FRANCO'S BROADCAST

"London, August 12.

The Insurients have claimed to have made considerable, ad- Tance on the Santander front after a surprise movement. There was no fighting. Government troops assert the Insurgent guns have been silenced on the Teruel front.

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The situation in the Tientsin- Pukow Sector is intensely grave, ad Aghting is proceeding between It is learned that a bomb ex- the Japanese and Chinese troops.ploded last night in the palace of In the west, the sound of heavy Archbishop Michael O'Doherty who sun-fre can be clearly heard at recently issued several statements mid-night.

condemning Communism, There Beuter.

were casualties and only slight damage was. done. The incident not reported to the police

General Franco has not replied to the British protest of the but the latter are understood to bombing of the British Corporal in the Mediterranean but in a broad- be investigating. Meanwhile pre-cast from Salamanca last night declared that no Insurgent planes as compared with last night; the cautionary measures have been were in the vicinity where the bombing occurred. He added that market was nominal with no bust-adopted and aer city approaches if the planes bore marks identifying them as Insurgent machines the are being guarded owing to reports markings were done-deliberately in order to involve the Insurgent of the possibility of disturbances by Government-Reuter's Bulletin Service. Bakdalistas. local Radical Party, 80 of whom were killed in the rising

REVOLT AND FRICTION

Madrid, Aug. 11. In May, 1935. The discovery of a

The Spanish Government con- hidden store of dynamite has in-

Santander, meanwhile, has ex- creased fears though the authori- tinues to claim to have informa-perienced the flercent air raid of tes deny that apprehension is tion of revolt and friction behind its history. There were numerous being felt-

the Insurgent lines. The latest casualties when the strongly forti- story is that Italian and German fed city was raided by six Insure. officers and men were killed when gent machines, which bombed the they rebelled against the Insur- thickly populated central section gent.command on the southern of te city and scored a direct hit on a gasometer, which was com- pletely destroyed.→→ Beuter.

ness."

Actually the falls are indicative of a complete lack in the buying interest rather than the actual selling pressure which has not materialised as brokers feel the smallest offerings would suffice to further depress the values.

The City is taking "a" "gloomy view of the Sino-Japanese altua-Reuter tion and nervousness is being in-" It is also reported that traitors creased by the developments at busy planning to create Shanghai. Nevertheless, all hopes trouble, in spite of the watchful- of a peaceful settlement, accept- ness of the local officials and law-able to both sides will be reached. abiding citizens.--

is mot yet entirely abandoned.--.. Reuter

are

Reuter.

SHANGHAT'S PLIGHT

Shanghai, Aug. 12.

JAPANESK FLEET PREPARED

Shanghal, Aug. 12. This great seaport looks like a Owing to the war scare great Japanese naval base to-day. changes bave taken place in There are four Japanese cruisers Shanghai during the past

two weeks, particularly in regard to food and provisions and the plight of the people.

Food and provisions are becom- ing scare, and prices have gone up nity per cent. The Settlement is crowded with refugees, and house rent has increased by thirty per cent.

In the Chinese City the number of empty houses is increasing dally- Reuter

NO ULTIMATUM Shanghai: Although the Japan

ese have asked for the withdrawal

of the Paoantiu and the dis mantling of the military defence work in and around the Shanghai area, it is reported that no formal demands or ultimatum has been presented. The arrival of the Japanese warships increased" the tension and the exodus from

and

Danger Of Spark Which May Set Fire To General Conflagration

London, August 12. Although it is scarcely time yet for comment on the suddenly flared up Shanghai crisis all news- papers have prominently displayed.

eight destroyers in the whangpou, whose guna frown be- hind Hongkew, the Japanese area of Shanghal just north of the In-accompanied by pictures, remini- ternational Settlement and east of scences the Chinese city of Chapel, all a part of Greater Shanghai. Just outside the harbour proper, in the direction ot Woosung, are twelve more Japanese men-o'-wRT.

front.

Loyalist troops, it is asherted,

U.S. “LEND" SIX DESTROYERS TO BRAZIL

Berlin, Aug. 12.

A report that the United States of the 1932 Aghting, Government had declared Itself while the danger to Shanghai ready to "lend" six destroyers to necessarily arouses the public to Brazil in return for payment by the reality of the Japanese menace the Brazilian Government of the more vividly than the clashes inore | Insurance sum is arousing much remote and less known in interest here.

A huge quantity of munitions | North China. and supplies, have been landed from the warships and 4,000 Japanese marines arc now in Shanghai.

· Government cir- The "Boersen Zeitung" opines cles, while awaiting further detalls, that the offer was dictated firstly do not attempt to minimize the by Washington's desire to main- gravity of the situation and it can¦ tain the political axia of the be confidently assumed that every | United States and South America. The Japanese allege that 100,000 effort will be made by representa- and especially the developing of Chinese troops are with a 50-ons to China and Japan to re-friendly relations with Brazil, and mile radius of Shanghai and that juce the tension and eliminate the secondly, by the wish, to exclude 10,000 Chinese militiamen are in danger of a spark which might set Europe from the supply of war the city itself."

Are to a general confiagration material to South American states, but to idle and expect anything in The paper recalled in this con- the nature of forcible pressure. If nection that negotiations in view s believed many Influential of the development of the Brazt Japanese view with great anxiety tan armament industry, with large the present trend of events in participation of American capital, china. but their influence could were recently brought to a only be checkmated by threats cessful conclusion, whereupon the from abroad which would infuriate Brazilian Military Mission which the Extremists and" anyway would was visiting Europe at the time to be most difficult to convert into place orders for war material was action. Close observers opine that recalled.- the Japanese naval demonstration at Shanghal is not designed to provoke war but to impress the Chinese publie at the nerve centre of China with the overwhelming nature of Japanese strength and the reality of the Japanese "decl- on to accomplish her sims in North China Router.

The Japanese are apparently de- termined to use forcë if the chin- ese do not agree to withdraw their militiamen and demolish the de- fence works of the Chinese city. If a clash occurs the Japanese are expected to rely mainly upon air attacks using the planes from the aircraft carrier now tying within 30 miles of Woosung. The pre- sence of this vessel in the Shang- hal area the Japanese apparently wanted to keep secret, but the fact has been revealed "that the UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION | carrier is close at hand......”

Reuter

Chapel and Hongkew is continuing it being officially estimated that about seventy per cent of the sidents in the, Chinese territory close to the Settlement boundary boundary in the northern area have already evacuated. Router.

Regarding the report that the Japanese Consular authorities in

AMERICAN PROTEST Tientsin had intimated their in- Tientsin: The American Cham- tention of taking over the post ber of Commerce at a meeting to- - offices in the British and French day unanimously passed a resolu- Concessions. "Reuter" learns that thon opposing the withdrawal of the new situation is under the ac- S. troops from Tientsin and re-

·tive ›consideration of the British quested the US. Consulate to for- Government. It a pointed out ward the resolution to the State that the danger of the present and War Departments in Washing- step is that it will enable the ton.- Japanese authorities to exercise| Reuter censorship of British malls Tentsin. But up to the present there is no information as to the attitude Britain will adopt...... Reuter

ROYALTY WED

Lausanne, Aug. 12

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RAILWAY CAPTURED Tokyo: Japanese announce the capture of the Nankow Railway Station at 9.30 am. to-day. Reuter

GRAVE DISORDERS

Jerusalem, August 12. The civil marriage between Grave disorders in the North Prince August Czartorysky and Syrian province of Djesirch, near King Alfonso's niece, Princess the Turkish frontier, necessitated Dolores of Bourbon Orleans, was | bombing operations by two French celebrated in the Town Hall here military planes according to des-

CLEANSING UP

Moscow, August 12, A laconis communique in an Ashkabad newspaper discloses & thorough "cleansing" of" Turk- menistan Republic, with the dia-

Transocean Neira Service,

HOSPITAL SHIP SINKS AFTER FIRE ABOARD

Buc-

Naples, Aug. 12. Fire broke out aboard a hospital ship in harbour this morning. As the names spread the vessel became a danger to shipping and was towed out of harbour and sank, The crew Jumped into the sea when the fre broke out and pre- sumably were all saved- Reuter's Bulletin Service.

missal, and branding as enemies of Brazilian Books

the

people of many principal Government leaders.

. Those dismissed Include the President and nine members of the Central Executive Committee, the Premier (M. Atabaler) and the

Vice-Premier (M. Bakhatov).

purged.

to

Germans

For

Berlin, August 12. The Brazilian Government has

have had success on the eastern front.

HOME

CRICKET

LUNCH SCORES

London, Aug. 12.

Cricket lunch scores:- Essex 156; Middlesex 302 and 45 for 2.

Sussex. 251; Warwickshire 243 for 5. "Lancashire 188 and 139 for 4; Kent 121.

for 3.

Hampshire 80; Glamorgan 310. Somersetshire 104 and 144 for B Surrey 185.

Gloucestershire 392; Derbyshire

Northamptonshire 115; Worces- tershire 27 for 4. (Cooper 114 not-out).

Leicestershire 208; Nottingham- shire 245 for 2

Yorkshire 291; Scotland 104 and 35- for 2.

Sir Jullan Cahn's XI 80 and 127 for 9 New Zealand 106-

MC.C. 108 and 43 for 1; Gentle- men of Ireland 209 and 18.- Reuter'à' Bulletin Service.

ANOTHER TEST TEAM CHANGE

Paynter Unable To Play -

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PEEDY

KOWLOON

CANTON

ECONOMI

RAILWAY

NOTICE Extension of Through Services..

The Kowloon Canton Railway announce that commencing on Monday next, August 9th, the Week-End Evening Trains leaving Kow loon at 7.04 p.m. and Canton at 7.30 will

p.m. run DAILY.

The through trains in each direction will then be as follows:

UP TRAINS Kowloon dep. 8.25 a m., 13243 p.m., 6.00 p.m., -7.04 pm. Canton im. 11-20 a.m., 6.03 p.m., 7.60 p.m., 10.11 p.m. DOWN TRAINS Canton dep. 8.15 am, 1,10 p.m., 4.50°p.m.; : •7-18°p.m. - Kowloon arr. 11.10a.m., 4.30 p.m., 7.45 p.m., 10.84 p.m

R. D. WALKER,

Manager & Chief Engineer.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULIR, BAY HOTEL,

SHANGHAI

HOUSE; PALAUS HOTEL;

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In masociation with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite

AIN

ENGLAND

Christian Community On 200 Acre Farm

London, Aug. 12. .

After weeks of negotiation, with Washbrook (Lancs) replaces the Immigration Authorities, 30

ATTACK ON

OXFORD GROUP

Making A Plea For Modesty"

An outspoken criticism of the Oxford Group movement, in which the compared the conventions" of East and West, was made by Miss. Margaret Rawlings, the well-known

Paynter, who has pulled a leg members of the German Brüderho actress, when she was guest of hön- have been permitted to land in England recently arrived at the Cotswold Brüdertior

Ashton Keynes.

muscle. in the English team against New Zealand in the Third Test match to-morrow- Reuter

MOTOR MISHAPS

Bus Loses Front Wheel

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Expelled from Germany when their movement was disbanded by the German secret police last

April, they were given temporary sanctuary in Holland. The British Immigration authorities refused permission for them to be taken into the English community until there were financial guarantees for their maintenance.

our at a "ufterary luncheon” in London.

Miss Rawlings made her attack after a series of speeches given by Oxford Group movement, in which prominent representatives of the

they told why they had Joned the movement, and how they believed that it could solve all the problema of the world even war.

A traffic accident occurred in the

I want to make a plea for Central District yesterday about 5.45 p.m. when bus No. 113, of the.

modesty." Miss Rawlings began, China Motor Bus Co., was travelling

"I was born in Japan and Kved" along Queen's Road Central, and Founded last year, the Cots there until I was 14 years of age, at the function of Ice House Street wold Brüderhot consists of 122In England we have or did have,, had its front off wheel suddenly people, mostly Germans, who live a convention: that regarded ex- anapped off from its axle causing a “Christian community" life on posure of the body as indecent and a' skid of nearly eight yards. *** 1200-acre farm in the heart of tumoral. This convention does not The bus was disabled and was the Wiltshire countryside. Sum exist in the Eat In the East it is produce for the bare exposure of the soul that is regard- stranded in the centre of the road elent

to necessities of life is retaineded as indecent,

the settlement, and the “PSYCHIC EXHIBITIONISM"

***I consider a publie confession

just made a present of a number frame for nearly two hours. The by

cansing much inconvenience

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to-day. The religious marriage patches here which add that the Executive Committee of Russia will help to win "German friend. Fortunately the road was clear and a printing and bookbinding ism, combined with sexsual satis

will take place on Bunday,

attack was made by inhabitants of Witness for the bridegroom at the village of Amondah an mem- to-day's ceremony was Comte de bers of the Franco-Syrian Com- Paris, eldest son of Duc de Guise, mission which arrived there in claimant to the French throne. order to investigate causes of the Witness for the bride was the unrest in the province. Enfant Alfonso of Bourbon... Tranauczan Newx Service..

PALESTINE

PARTITION

The attack proved to be a signal for a general revolt so that the local authorities were obliged to appeal to the French for assistance. Order has now been restored.- Trounces News" Service,

NEW JUDGES AT THE HAGUE

faction.

Turkmenistan is the last of the of modern books by Brazilians to vehicle was eventually removed at balance is sold outside. Work is Central Asian Republica to be the Ibero-American Institute at 7.30 p.m. by the Company's emer- now proceeding for the setting up

Hamburg. The books are an add- The Presidium of the Central ed attraction to the library and geney truck: htt

of a hand-made furniture factory such as we have listened to at this luncheon to be paychic exhibition-

trova as Commissar of Bocial nurman News Service. Froper has appointed Maria Bha- for Brazi

othewise a serious accident might | works. A have been the result. There were

LOVE WITHOUT REWARD' Welfare. She is the first woman

altogether six passengers on the

"The men and women of this bus all of whom escaped uninjured. community," one of them said, COAL COOLIE HUBT ⠀ "eive all they have their property Chan Shing, a coal dealer's and themselves to a life of prac fold, was conveyed to the Kowloon wad of reward. It is their aim to tical love, without claiming any Hospital yesterday auntering from

to hold such a post... Reuter,

Journalists Against Sensationalismı

Paris, August 12,·

"It is to me as shocking; and use the word shocking in the Victorian sense, as indecent and Indelicate as if someone took off all their clothes in the middle Picadilly Circus

GERMAN NEWSPAPERS

would like to quote your a THROUGHOUT WORLD

an injury to his leg He was show that a life based entirely on Basle, August 12 knocked down by a motor cycle love as expressed by Christ in the passage from one of my mother a Papers and periodicals in the driven by Mr. W. A. Dickins at the Sermon on the Mount is possible The Japanese know that German language are now publish- Junction of Prince Edward Hoaseven-to-day, emrarden, love, and a man's soul, she three things should be secret——a ed in practically every country in and Fa Yuen Street, while carry- the world. Their distribution is ing coal for delivery.

In the Brüderhof," I was told.. "all property is held in common concluded At a meeting of the Franco-representative of a true picture of Jerusalem, August 12.

and everyone shares in the work. Over 2,000 people of whom about German Society here, journalists of the German people, and shows.

Members are selected for work for 1,000 were members of the Oxford "Arab circles hers stress – that

both nations agreed to try and how even the smallest groups of DR. CLIFFORD LEWIS which they are most atted. There Group, were present at the fun- despite all objections raised by

abolish sensational and misleading Germans (many of them having the Zionist Congress, nevertheless

YYDETME is no exchange of money and no cheon Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, headlines and reports which are lived for hundreds of years away There was a large gathering at wages are paid. Any money founder of the Group movement. they are decided on principle to

The Hague, August 12. admit the partition of Palestine Dr. Curt Rothenberger, President relations and endanger European home land. These papers are also when Dr. Clifford Lewis gave from its commercial activities I

likely to polson Franco-German from their comtry), cling to their St. Andrew's Church last night which comes to the community presided: A member of the Arab High Com- of the Hanseatic Senior Law peace. In order to take effective a sign of the importance nowadays talk on The Old Time Religion. used for the community as a mittes, Fuad Saba, declared that Courts, and Br. Victor Bruns Pro- steps to stop this type of of the German language. In Swit Mr. Lewis will preach on "Ringing whole. We endeavour to live as the partition would constitute a fessor of International Law at journalese, arrangements were zerland 144 German papers are Door Bells at Mid-night" to-night nearly as possible in the manner Berlin University and Director of made for a permanent exchange of printed, 240 in Czechoslovakia, and on Saturday night there will of the first Christian church in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of publications, so that false or in- 239 in Austria, 174 in the United be a special sermon for Chinese Jerusalem." Laws, have both been made mem tentionally misleading statements States, 78, in France. 75

The New Vice-Chancellor of the bers of the Permanent Interna

in which will be interpreted into Members are marzled by der University, Mr, Dimean James could be quickly and effectively Rumania, 71 In Brazil, 40 in Soviet Chinese. Dr. Lewis will speak for claration before the whole com-sides, MAL CRE is tional Law Courts at the Hague corrected.

Russia and 32 in the Argentine the last time on Sunday and will munity, though a visit is later paid arrive in Hong Kong Transocean News Service

Transcean Heini Beraste

leave for Europe next Tuesday. to the local Registrar's office. 25, by the P. and Os

fagrant violation of rights of the Arabs not only in Palestine but in the whole world and could never epell peace and prosperity for the country. Tranentran Anos Servier

Transocean News Service,

MR, DUNCAN, SLOSS