HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1938.
Advance On Teruel
General Aranda Makes Headway
Salamanca, Dec. 31.
A Nationalist war bulletin issued last night reports that General Arand's forces are continuing their advance on Teruel. It is claim- ed that the Republican troops were made to suffer a severe setback “ and that 6,000 of thêm have been put out of action, and 600 taken prisoners, including one of the leaders of "the International Brigade.”... ·
The battlefield was strewn with upwards of 1,000 dead Republi- can soldiers The Nationalist have now advanced beyond the road leading from Campillo to Condud and captured the hills lying south: of Campillo. They have also taken the villages of Premier. Vallejo, Patriza and Morrenes
Eight of the enemy machines were shot down including Ave Curtis aeroplanes. Nationalist military circles are predicting re- Hef of Teruel in the next 24 hours.
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SEVERE FIGHTING
Madrid, Dec. 31: A Republican war bulletin issued last niglit says that the enemy launched a general attack upon Teruel yeterday. Very
CAVALCADE
OF SORROW
AND TRAGEDY
REFUGEES POUR OUT
OF TSINGTAO
More Property
· Destroyed
Tsingtao. Dec. 31.
severe fighting occurred on both flanks. Although the Republican forces had retreated on Thursday from the heavily shelled poaltions near Zerrogordo, these, positions were retaken later. On the Left Wing the loss of a few positions dues "not constitute a threat to Ternel.—
rautocean."
ROOSEVELT'S PLAN TO REARM WELCOMED
Agitation To Dispel "Confusion And. Isolation**
London, Dec. 29. Welcoming President Roosevelt's The flow of refugees pruring out
Initiation of speedier naval re- of Tsingtao to the interior in an unceasing stream thickened to-day armament, the influential Wash- when thousands upon thousands Inngton Star" says the nation will
the "Chinese rity determined to evacuate safely before the arrival of the Japanese. They travelled on foot in wheelbarrows and every other form of transport available carrying their meagre belongings,
interpret the move as a reply to the "intolerable affront" regarding the Panay affair, and adda: "The Unlied States thus Institutes its own guarantees for Japan's good behaviour. It is exactly the kind
of moral suasion that a force-wor-
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The last stand at Nanking.
PREMIER WILL TAKE CHARGE OF FOREIGN OFFICE
MR. EDEN'S HOLIDAY
London, Dec. 31. Importance is attached by part of the British press to-day to the fact that the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain. will direct the Foreign Ministry during the absence of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. lasting for sev eral weeks, It had previously been arranged that the Lord Halifax, Lord Fresident of the Council of Earl de la Warr, Lord Privy Scal.
It was a cavalcade of sorrow,and shipping nation' and likeminded / should represent Mr. Eden.
tragedy representing another of those tremendous shifts of popula- tion which has marked)the Sino- Japanese war.
Meanwhile mote valuable pro- perty of the Chinese and Japanese was blown up in three explosions following in' quick succussion and told destruction to the Kungdah Cotton Mill in Tiangkow, 13 miles from Tsingtau. Yesterday's at- tempt to blow up the electric plant recently built to supply Japanese mhis with power
was not "very successful. Only onc generator was destroyed and all the windows were slattered... The Chinese, 11 is believed, will explode further charges to complete the Jop."
It is rumoured the Chinese in-. tend to destroy the Mayor's office and residence and the Tsingtao Railway Station as well as the Japanese Consulate and Japanese Town Hall. The Japanese ink mili and Japanese banks will also be destroyed and most of the "build- ings affected ure surrounding homes occupied by neutrals.
Meanwhile, the situation has re- sulted in the birth of volunteers whose members are armed only with barons. The commander is a Briton, Mr. A. R. Hogg with a force of 340 representing all na- tionals except Americans, as it is evidently considered Inadvisable for them to join the corps as the U.S.8. Marblehead is in port for the special purpose of protecting
American interests. Krater,
NEW GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT
London, Dec. 31.
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people west of Suez, understand."
The Foreign Secretary has ar- Representative Edward T. Tay-ranged to leave England at the lor. Chairman of the Appropria- beginning of January and spend tions Board, to whom President Roosevelt's letter was addressed, declared: "We wynt peace, but we must be prepared to ek hell out of them if they trump on our toes." He added that he was sure Congress would approve.
· Opposition to the rearmament programme Ls announced by Benators Barah. Wheeler and Johnson, and also by peace so- cletics. Thus the proposals are Ekely to get a mixed reception in Congress next week.— Reuter
LAW OR VIOLENCE
Mr. Chamberlain
Washington, Dec. 28. Mr. M. O., Reynolds, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives broadcast An appeal to-night urging the United States to lead two weeks holiday in the south of In Lie search for peace by France from where he will travel abandoning its "confusion and
to Geneva on January 17 to attend Isolation'
the opening of the League Council convention. Mr. Eden will most probably return to London before
Prime Minister. going to Geneva, to confer with the
He said that while Japan's apology ends the Fanny incident it does not end Far Eastern affairs. Apart from the destruction of life and property, there is the equally large question of whether Inter national relations shall be govern- ed by law or violence. The United States must insist sanctity of treaties.
upon the
A polley of isolation hd with drawal. while undertaken in the name of peace, is a polley that encourages war, he held.- Reuter
"FUNERAL OF MR. W. HILL
The funeral of Sanitary Inspec- tor W. Hill, who died at the Queen Mary Hospital on Thursday. took place at the Protestant Cemetery yesterday evening, when the Rex
The new Egyptian Prime Minje- ter, Mohamed Mahmoud · Pasha, held a telephonic conversation with B representative of the “News Chronicle" to-day and pointed out that one of the most important tasks of the new Government was the strengthening of the army, navy and air force.
In answer to the question or how the Egyptian people had taken the veside. enforced resignation of Nahad The chief mourners were the Pasha, Mr. Mahmoud said that order ruled in the country and that the army had not been taken by the police. The Egyptian Govern-
H. W. Baines officiated at the gra-
widow, Mrs. Janet Hill, and son, and a large namber of colleaguṛa and filende attended.
Amongst those present wero Dr.
"Daily Herald", which makes a front page flare of the newvi about the Prime Minister taking over the Foreign Minister's office, states that the seriousness of the position in the Far East renders ́this step na- cessary as in an emergency the Prime Minister is alone able to make a responsible decision. Transocean News Reroint
NEW SOVIET
CARNIVAL AT THE HOTEL
800 Guests At The Gripps.
The New Year's Eve Carnival at the Hong Kong Hotel was, as in former years. an unqualified suc- cess and it would be no exaggera-" tion to say that when the clock struck twelve and all cross-hands and sang "Auld Lang Syne" to bid farewell to 1937 and welcome the New Year, there were fully 300 people present and yet, despite the crowd, not the slightest congestion was noticed, thanks to the highly efficient way the Management of the Hong Kong Hotel had catered for the comfort of their guests..
Everybody, was in the best of spirits and the way in which the European guests mingled with the Chinese was a direct contradiction to Kipling's..
"...For the East is. East· and
the West is West
And ne'er the twain shall
meet."
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To quote one of the guests who made h's way home at 3 am. tired bat happy, it was great fun" "Ar always Art Caneiro and his orches tre rose to the occasion in fine style
and there were also Szita and Anis and the Midnight Follies to enter- tain in-between dances.
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Commenting on Signor Musbu lint's announcement in Rome the "Natioal Zeltung" said:—
"Italy's departure from the League has brought about a new world political situation of
the greatest significance, The Geneva League is robbed of the last pre- Lence of still being a world in- stitution.
"It is, in, reality, now only a group representing the interests of the three largest landowners in. the old world; England. "France, and Soviet Russia.
"All the other members. of the League will have to look around to see whether the world is not a little more free now, In view of the fact that the young "realpolitik" Great Power have revealed a new possibility of
solidarity.
"The world political "triangle— Germany, Italy, Japan-has set it- self a more universal task than the Geneva League could ever have
taken on.
This task in the nèw
world consists of putting an end to outmoded monopolies and to create a world order in which the nations with vital strength can live elde by side with each other.
PEACE GUARANTEE "This will make possible a re laxation of · tension", and' thus guarantee world peace and streng- then the cause of peace far better than an armaments race on how- [evér grandiose a style.
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The Army Shows Its Mysteries
| INSTRUMENT WHICH BETRAYS THE BOMBER TO THE GUNS
longer is it keeping its working a
The Army has a new policy. No tary schools, learn to do precision
work with remarkable akili in mystery. Recently the Army short time. School of Education at Shorncliffe was opened to the Press.
Later, for the Arst time, the Military College of Science at Woolwich was thrown open for a similar inspection.
the
The headquarters of the college used to be a seamen's hospital. ¿
Now they contain leesure rooms, laboratories libraries and workshops, : where chemistry, physies, ballistics and electrical and mechanical en- gineering are taught by vilian.. professors.
The college is in effect science university of the Army. In its laboratories and its lecture The advanced courses last. for moms officers are brought up to nearly three years, a university honours degree «tan- dard.
In its workshops and its class-
rooms it trains the boys who will | SIR HENRY CHILTON become the artificers of the artil lery and the men who will go back
No Decision Regarding to their regiments as technical in- structors.
Retirement
London; Dec. 31. The British Ambassador to Spain:
TROSE PRESENT Amongst those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Taggart, Mr. and Mrs, J. T. Bagram and patty or ien, Lt. Comdr, G. Stewart. Mr. Lo Wing-s'k of Macao, with party of six. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Bradbury and party. Mr. Vic Hugo, popular manager of the Oriental Theatre and Mrs. Hugo. Comdr. 'Menzies and party of seven Mr. H. Arias and party of Ave, Capt. C: R. Boxer: of the Gloucester Hotel and party, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Raymond and party of eight, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Razavett, of C.P.R. and party, Mr. "It is not the fact of Italy's exit This year -318, omcers and more F. Chan of the St. Francs Hotel from the League which 'la most
than 2000, other'ranks have passed and party, Mr. H. Wielandt of the important, for Italy's work at through the college. At present Consulate and party, Lt. Col. R.C.B. | Geneva had long been confined to
there are 160 officers, 405 boys, Bir Henry Chilton, who as will be Anderson and party, Mr. and Mrs.mere observation.
and 300 other ranks in residence. recalled has been permanently A. W. đà Roth and party. Mr. A. B. "But this action, with its em- In that way, as the Comman-staying at Hendaye recently are Laborinho, the Portuguese Consul- | phasis
on the world politicaldant. Brigadier A. H. Loughrived here yesterday. When press General and party of seven, Mr. J. triangle, does make it clear, in this borough, said to-day the Military representatives asked Bir - Henry Krogh-Moe and party Mr. P. Deltz serious hour, to the owners of the College of Science spreads scien- whether there was any truth" in of the Gloucester Hotel and party world that the period of simply tific knowledge throughout the the press reports that he would not fa of eight, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lo-sitting on the property, conquered whole Army.
return to his post he explained FIRE CONTROL
that normally he should have in this or that manner, and the denial of vital rights to every other One of the most interesting of retired already in October when le nation, is rapidly nearing its end." the departments is the Royal Mili- reached the age limit of 60 years, In view of the Civil War, however, tary Depository, which includes the decision regarding his retire- the fire-control instrument shops. ment had been deferred. The de- There I saw a complicated incision was now resting' with the strument, which would be used tPoreign Office whose wishes were defend London in air raids, It is not known to him. Informed rather like a huge camera on a tripod.. Two men train it on to decision regarding Bir Henry's re- quarters here "declare that the the raiding bombers..
and that the Ambassador was now tirement has not yet been taken merely on leave beulers Bulletin Service.
Mr. and Mrs, J. R. Paton, Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Sherry and party of six, Mr. J. F. Richmond of the Stand- ard 0 Company. Mr. I. K. Sze of Bay View Mansions and party of 24 and hundreds of others.
COMMISSARIAT vett and Mrs. Walton of New York
Moscow, Dec. 31. The Soviet Government has de. cided to establish a separate Com- missariat for naval affairs and transfer to it naval forces of the Red Army which will thus be de- tached from the control of the Commissariat of Defence. the political administration of the M. Smirnoff, at present head of Red Army, will be appointed Com- missar of Naval Affairs.-
Reuter
"DISCIPLINARY ACTION"
Shanghal, Dec. 71,
REFUGEES DUE TO-DAY
Hankow, Dec. 31 The International train passed through Changsha at 10.30 pm. | last night making even faster time than 'Inst week's “Christing Ex-
* press."
The journey is programing with
ANOTHER PARIS STRIKE
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Paris, Dec. 31, A strike broke out yesterday afternoon in all coal mines in, the vicinity of Valenciennes About 1,100 miners are involved and the Prefect is reported to be making efforts to bring about a settlement. -Transocean News Service.
ment, continued the Prime Minis G. W. Pope, Dr. J. M. Gray, Mr. E. ter, would pursue a liberal polieg', W. Hamilltón, Mr. H. Boulton, Mr. in order to establish friendly re Todd, Mr. Watson, Mr. Davis, Mr.
BANK THEFT. lations with all countries, especiR. Duncan, Mr. Armstrong, Senior "Disciplinary action: according to pouf a hitch, says a telegram re-
SEQUEL ally with England. It would be Sanitary Inspectors. Reid, Frost, law were taken by the Japanese ved from Changsha, and every- necessary to govern with a stronz | Hooper, Knight, Taylor, Lockhart, Government against all":"Army. | body is comfortable. It adds that. According to a police report hand as the Government was not Old, Woods and Brewer Inspectors Navy and Air Force officers and afty-two Changsha passengers | Wong Fuk, 19, of 1886 Canton, 'supported by the majority in the | Bilson, Boyd, Poole, Kerrison, Te- men, held responsible for the at were picked up comprising eight | Road, Arzt door, has been arrested
Chamber.
cleshall, Stevens, Strange, Strange, tacks on the British gunboate on men, nineteen women and twenty- and charged with the theft of Mr Mahmoud concluded by star- | Sheria, Bowden, Beddon and Wil- the Yangtse on Dec. 12 mays a five children.
$1,000 of the Kwangtung Provincial ing that it was absurd that Egypt lams. The Dall bearers were Japanese despatch trom Tokyo. The train "should" "cross. the Bank issue. The larceny occurred had an army numbering only 11, Messrs. Kerrison, Bowden, Sherin. This, it adds, was revealed to-day Kwangtung border late to-day ar- at the Wing Loong Bank, 112, 000. This, he said, would have to Knight, Poole and Lamprille. for the first time with the publica-riving at Canton before dawn of Queen's Road Central, and it is be increased to at least 50,000 arid
Amongst the large number of tion. of Japan's reply to the Bri- New Year's day and Hong Kong in alleged that Wong snatched the A reserve of similar number wreaths sent were there from the tish protest.
time for breakfast at 8.30 am--- money as it was being handed over created. Transgcenu News Berpice. widow and Mr. W. Roland Hill, son...! Reuter,
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the counter.
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It calculates exactly where a shell should be fired to hit the airplane, and the result of the calculation is transmitted by elec- tric cable to the anti-aircraft gen. The gunner does not see the aircraft at all He has simply to keep two pointers: together,:
If the airplane continues or Its course, the shell must hit it,
In large shops in another part of the depository · the boys are trained to be artificere,
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MORE JAPANESE PROPERTY DESTROYED
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Thingtao, Des. 31, Further Japanese property Bot on fire to-day included a silk ENTER THE SERVICE AT 14 A
Alature and a tobacco company. They enter the Service at the The new Commissioner of Police, age of 14 and do'a five-year ourze, Colonel Liso An-pang, is reported which includes theoretical and to have been shot and injured dar- practical Engineering-atting, ing the night, Foreign volunteers turning woodworking and black are patrolling the, sterets in mou smithing,
tor-cars in an attempt to maintain order, pending the arrival of the Japanese — Reuter
An officer told me that the boys. most of whom come from elemen-
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