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"JAPAN HAS BE-FOULED CIVILISATION!"

HONG KONG-BANGKOK

AIR SERVICE

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Survey Flights To Be

Made Soon

The Daily Press" learns from reliable source that an Impérial Airways air liner of the type at present "being used between Hong Kong and Penang is about to make a survey fight which will include several aerodromes in Slam and Indo-China, with 2 view to in- vestigating the. possibility of operating the present Hong Kong- Penang service Bangkok in-

to stead.

approximately 500 miles flying be- tween Hong Kong and the main trunk route between London and Australia, and it is therefore rea-

sonable to assume that there will be a consequent reduction in tran- st time between Hong Kong and est cities at present served by the main Une service.

This proposed new route will not in any way interfere with the mala trunk route. The only difference would be that malls from Hong If this new toute proves prac-Kong to Malaya will go via Bang- ticable it will mean a saving of kok.

British Ambassador Here

FEARS ALLAYED

Personnel Of British Warships

London, Oct. 5. The Admiralty to-day allayed possible anxiety of relatives and friends of officers and men serving on the Yangtze River.

WOUNDED

DIPLOMAT

RESTING

VISITING MANILA

Hong Kong was honoured by the visit of the British Ambassador to China. Sir Hughe. Knatchbul- Hugessen, who, with Lady Knatch- bull-Hugessen

their and

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night.

"Owing to the uncertainty of daughters, passed the Colony last despatch from and reception of malis from His Majestys stulps" it is stated that the Rear-Admiral in the Yangtse has sent a message

After leaving Shanghai on Mon- day by H.M.S. Falmouth, the Am- bassador arrived here at 8 pm.

that the personnel of 11.M.S. Cape-last night. From the Falmouth he town and river gunboats were suf- fering no hardships and very little inconvenience яз regards sup- plies-

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was escorted by Commodore E. B. C. Dicken, O.B.E.. D.S.C.. RN. on the Commodore's barge the Empress of Asia, boarding continued on Back Page}

Group photograph taken yesterday afternoon after the wed- ding at St. John's Cathedral of Mr. F. Walkden and Miss Isabel Joan Mason.

(Photo, Cheng Studio).

Italy, Spain And

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The Far East

"Some Reflections on The Week's |

the subject of a News" formed, broadcast talk by Sir Malcolm Robertson, former British Am- bassador to Buenos Aires, from Daventry last night, in the weekly "World Affairs" series.

In opening his talk, Sir Malcolm sald that he had served in twelve countries and in the course of his career he had come into contact with all sorts of people, and it was his firm conviction that the peoples of the world had never ceased to reiterate their desire for peace. The question, however, was whe- ther the people could make their voice loud enough to be heard by the governments of the different countries.

Dealing with affairs in Europe, Sr Malcolm said that Signor Mussolini's visit to Berlin has taken place but it was somewhat difficult to judge whether the enthusiasm with which he was received was genuine or organised, and another thing was that it would be very

desirable to learn what was the outcome of the conversations be- tween

Herr Hitler and Bignor Mussolini. Both of them appeared to be very much against commun- tam but the speaker said that he himself felt that there was little or no difference between com- munism and fascism.

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WITHERING DENUNCIATION BY JAPANESE BOMBER

GENERAL WU TE-CHEN

KWANGTUNG'S GOVERNOR COMMENTS ON CANTON BOMBINGS

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ALEC. EINAR PRATT. "Editor oF

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

1 WAS GRANTED AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH HIS EXCELLENCY, GENERAL WU TE- CHEN, GOVERNOR OF KWANGTUNG, YESTERDAY MORNING. SUCH IS THE RAPIDITY OF THE MOVEMENT OF AFFAIRS IN SOUTH CHINA AND SUCH IS THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF BUSI- NESS WHICH HAS TO BE TRANSACTED WITH EXPEDITION AND EXPERTNESS, THAT THE ONLY POSSIBLE PERIOD AVAILABLE FOR THE DISCUSSION OF MATTERS OF VITAL INTEREST TO THE WORLD AT LARGE WITH IS, EXCELLENCY WAS DURING BREAKFAST. SO A BREAKFAST IN- TERVIEW WAS, ARRANGED AT A KENDEZVOUS WHICH I SHALL MERELY DESCRIBE AS “SOME- WHERE IN CANTON."

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Alert, keen, smiling and courteous as ever, General Wa Te-chen, wearing the simple khaki uniform of commander of the Provincial Peace Preservation Corps, looked every inch the complete man of affairs for which he has become Justly famed and respected. Although he is working from fourteen to sixteen hours every day without a break, yet he struck me as being in the pink of con.. dition, responding with new vigour and enthusiasm to his ever increasing tasks.. He seemed to me to exemplify in a remarkable inaoner the truth of the saying that there is a man who can rise tu every occasion.

Interruption

During a frugal meal, for His Excellency is setting a splendid example in the matter of personal economy which the millions who look to him as their leader are following during the present very grave crisis, the first warning was given that the Japanese were on their way to rain more murder from the air. From that moment onward General Wu's breakfast was a myth. Whilst I attended to my bacon and eggs. His Ex- cellency attended to the numerous telephone calls which rang through at almost minute intervals. He would come back to table from the phone, and with a characteristic smile commence thus, "As we were saying...

Telephone call. A few muffled words in the adjoining reception room. A secretary be- side the Governor. Then. "Excuse me, please." A bow. a rush of footsteps. then his machine-gun- like volce through the phone. Back again. Conversation started. Interrupted. And so on. Eventual- ly he finished his mythical break- fast-and, mind you, he had been in conference for one hour before I arrived for my breakfast-inter- view at 8.30 a.m. and he had been attending to business till 2 a.m. on the night-morning before-and" then we settled down to some steady talking!

Governor Wu Te-chen is quick to the split-second. When he is on a theme he speaks deliberately and purposefully, and he is always most particular to question you back to assure himself that you' have grasped the sentiment and detall of his observations, He is one of those rarely great men who is earnest in his desire that the Journalist shall not be misled and also that the Journalist shall not mislead. Would that all inter- viewees would emulate him!

Hla observations will follow, but our discussion was clipped some- what because of the second warm- ing signal by the advent of more of the Japanese desecrators. But throughout that second raid, which lasted for almost four hours, in this area, Governor Wu Te-chen

worked incessantly stimulated only by two cups of tea. He does not smoke and he does not take” al- cohol. A man, if ever there was one, enthusiastic for his work and passionately. patriotic.

Strictures

Governor. Wu talked to me with glowing enthusiasm for the spirit which the people are manifesting and with righteous indignation for the spirit which is animating the ruthless polley of Japan.

I give you his words, and they were spoken with telling emphasis heightened by his compelling per- sonality.

"Japan," declared Governor Wu China's polley in the present Te-chen, "kas be-fouled civilisa- crisis. Since the bombings of tion! Her policy has been thex- Canton the United States cusable but the way in which she America and Germany have be has carried out at policy has come as appreciative as Britain, been unbelievably contemptible. France and Russia. There is Although Japan maintains "there every indication that the moral is no war-which of itself makes backing of the major Powers is her depredations all the more

behind China. Then, also, con- depraved-yet she has soaked our sideration. must be given to the good earth with the blood or econdmic aspect. We see various thousands of innocent, defence-. organisations taking a very active part in organising an economic less, peaceable people who never attacked her and who never en- boycott of all Japanese goods. tertained any unworthy schemes All this clearly shows that Japan of aggression. Only a nation im- has antagonised the world, and pervious to honourable scnti-

by the continuation of further abominable atrocities that world ments could have perpetrated such atrocities as the bombings antagonism is being rapidly Jash- of Canton and not felt very ed to a state of fury which will ashamed of itself. Great as has break like a whirlwind of hate been the sorrow resulting from against a nation and 3 people these murderous attacks from alike contemptuous of the feelings the air, yet that very

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the" in tseit રા grand Inspiration. point of monstrous filendiahneas. Sorrow, suffering and sacrifice-*The bombings of Canton have cer- those three alone dan arid will lead China to sovereign power: that power which has its incep- tlan in the hearts and minds of the people as manifested in the spirit of the nation."

Not Afraid

"It is my feeling and hrm conviction," said His Excellency, "chat China is no more afraid of Japan than grown. men and women are of the big, bad wolf? Probably the murder committed From the air by the Japaness on the people of Canton was design- ed to demoralise the populace. For what satisfaction it may give the Japanese marauders, it should be made known that those unpro- voked attacks

has on civilians strengthened the morale of the people remarkably and enduring- ay. I give you · my 'assurance

that such is a fact. I can de- finitely sense the feeling amongst the people which shows in no uncertain manner that now it never before they are determined o Bée this miserable business right through to the very end. Come what may: we are all ready to face the consequences of the action the Central Government took the only possible action for any nation which desired to re- tain its self-respect of "refusing to permit the Japanese to con- tinue to thieve Chinese territory and slaughter Chinese citizens.”

World Opinion.

Keenly interested in 'world politics, Governor Wu Te-chen was most enthusiastic in his ap- in "preciation for the manner

which the peoples and the Press ci the world' were supporting China's cause.

"There was a time," remarked Britain, His Excellency, "when France and Russia were the only sincerely appreciative nations of

tainly roused a somewhat sleepy world-sleepy, it least, as far as China's cause was concerned."

Childish Propaganda

"I am rellably informed that the Japanese are indulging in a form of propaganda which can at best only be regarded extremely enlidish," said Governor Wu Te-enen. "For instance, they have announced the disintegra- tion of the Central Government; the assassination and suicide and

CRASHES IN FLAMES

Raid Over Nanking

Nanking, October 8: The capital experienced a brief air raid this: morning when twelve Japanese bombers appeared at 10.20 a.m: and crossed south of the city to the west then formed single file and power, dived. They bombed the aerodrome outside Kwangyuamen. One of the bombers was hit by the heavy, anti-aircraft the fire and crashed to the ground in flames. The other planes left the capital in a south-easterly direction whereupon twelve Chinese pursuit planes patrolled the sky until the all-clear signal was sounded at 12.30 p.m:

The capital experienced another brief air raid this afternoon ging from thick cloud banks drop-when three Japanese bombers emer ped six heavy bombs from a great height again aiming at the hero- drome. Eight Japanese planes also went to Tongshan, 18 mlles east of Nanking. It is claimed that one of the raiders was shot down.—— Best..

JAPANESE RAIDS IN KWANGTUNG

500 CASUALTIES

Canton, Oct. 6: Five hundred Chinese civilians, including many women and children, are belleved to have been killed and injured during one of the most extensive air raids to date by Japanese planes, in which 66 bombers participated," along the cities on the Canton-Hankow Railway In northern Kwangtung...

1,956 DEAD IN SHANGHAI

'BLOODY SATURDAY”

FIGURES.

Shanghai, Oct. 6. Although an investigation is bé- The report of the Fire Brigade ing pushed, it is feared that the gives the final list of casualties in casualties will be much greater | Shanghai on "bloody Saturday,” when completed as most of the | August 14. towns bombed to-day are without medical facilities and hundreds of wounded villagers are being left to die,

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Shiukwan, an important railway town 225 kilometres north of Can- ton. also suffered at the hands of the Japanese air raiders. Twenty bombs fell in the city, demolishing over 30 houses and shops, and causing death and injury to 200 tó 300 civilians..

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Nanking Road:-729 dead (In- cluding 3 foreigners); 861 wounded (Including 4 foreigners).·

Avenue Edward VII:-1,012 dead (including 4 foreigners); ̈ 1,007 wounded (including 4 foreigners). AUGUST 23

Sincere Company:÷215 deað (in- cluding 3 foreigners); 558 wounded, -Renter.

Doctors, nurses and philanthro-"LONG DESIRED”

pic workers are being rushed to Shlukwan to relieve the sufferers.

The cries and walling of the in- habitants could be heard miles away as the smoke from the ruins slowly ascended towards the sky.

Chunghua, the famous hot springs about 50 kilometres north- east of Canton, was also bombed but the extent of the damage has not been ascertained.

A small section of the rails at Eslaomao was damaged, but re- pairs are being rushed.- Central Newa.

deposition of the Generalissimo THE TRAVEL

on numerous occasions; mutiny in the Chinese forces is a most favoured theme, whilst the foulest aspersions are cast almost inces- santly upon the ability and morality of the leaders of China. Then again, they are making herculean efforts to convince the world at large" that it, is the Chinese who have committed at- rocities and not the Japanese. All this sort of thing is on a par with the accepted policy of Japan, but, in spite of a blinding censorship of the Japanese press, the truth will out and I consider the press of the British Empire most notable Is Its splendid out- spokenness.

the Now

United States of America is doing like- wise, and the pronouncements of the President of that great nation are most heartening.”

Right Means All

"You have spoken with me about victory and defeat. That is a matter of relation rather than comparison... China will never know defeat so long as one of her nationals remains to with- stand the Japanese aggression. With Chins I feel it is not a matter of right or wrong. China knows for what she is standing, for: the popularisation of

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"AUTONOMOUS REGIME

WHAT JAPAN MAY * ESTABLISH

Tokyo, Oct. 6: The newspapers here to-day indicate that Japan's reply to the League may be tho ex- tablishment of a "long desired” autonomous regime in North China: The "Asahi Shimbun” says that if China refuses to co-operate. with Japan and decides, on a pro-' tracted war Japan must continua to occupy strategic points in North

ASSOCIATION China semi-permanently so that

Second Year Of Good Work

The second suusi report of the Directors of The Hong Kong Travel Association has just been published and reviews another year of con- tinued development despite a con- siderable falling off of public patronage. The working account for the year shows an access of income over expenditure of $8,- 479.26, bringing the balance, on the credit side of the balance sheet, to the very satisfactory Dgure of $31,228.76.

The second annual meeting of the Association will be held on Friday, October 15, when among other business to be discussed, two members to the Board of Directors will be elected,

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new regime in North China might assume the character of a semi-dependent "stato.- Reiter.

THE DOLLAR

TT. ON NEW YORK: 30-11/16 T.T. ON LONDON: 11. 2.7/80..

London Silver Market

From Our Own Correspondent).

London, October 6. London silver prices to-day were' up 1/16. for "Spot" and un- changed for "Forward" as follow:

October 5 October

19-7/8 19-13/16

apot..............19-15/16 Forward...........19-13/16"

It will be recalled that the Asso-Conei

ciation was formed in 1935 az.

Finance

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