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SPECIAL SPRING FESTIVAL MESSAGE FROM MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

WARSHIPS HOVER CHINA'S FIRST LADY REVIEWS HAPPENINGS OF PAST YEAR

NEAR HAINAN

Japanese Bomb City Of Hoihow

Canton, Jan. 30. Several Japanese cruisers and destroyers arc hovering ncar Hainan Island, but at present they show no sign of shy special activi- ties.

Three Japanese planes, however. dropped two bombs near the Chao- chow: Guild, in the heart of the city of Holbow, on the morning of January 28, causing the death of over ten persons and destroying many houses.

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reconnaissance SIR SHOU-SON

The planes returned again in the afternoon in dight, but no bombs were drop- ped..-(International News),

ATTEMPTED LANDING

Canton, Jan 30.

A French warship has" arrived off the coast of Holhow to protect French interests and nationals in. Hainan Island, according to a tele- graphic message from Holhow.

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CHOW: “BETTER THINGS THAN LAST YEAR"

The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the well-known local Chinese leader,. gives the following message to the readers of "The Dally Press":—

small marines from a Japanese warship attempted to land at Howmoon, a "I wish the Chinese communlly a point of Holfung on the Kwang- | New" Year that will bring better tung coast, but was repulsed by ¦ things for them than the last year, the Chinese troops defending, the | and 1 also wish the Colony of Hong place, States a report from Hol- Kong the best of luck and pris- fung (Central News).

perity."

Chinese New Year's Eve In

The Colony

Chinese New Year's eve brought with it the usual crowd in the city streets and shops and up to a late hour last night the whole town was one hive of activity.

It is one of the unwritten laws connected with this festival of festivals that all outstanding ac- counts must be cleared up before the New Year, and for this reason. the usual business "closing" hour was extended from 5 p.m. till well past midnight.

that money was somewhat scarce. there were plenty of crackers firing and many hundreds of dollars must have been expended on this pastime, judging by the din heard in all parts of the city from early afternoon till the wee small hours of the morning.

The bazaar at Gloucester, Road was well-patronised and here, also. much money must have changed hands-in more ways than one as pickpockets; as usual, were extra

Despite the common complaint active!

MONGOLS PROTECT

VITAL ROUTE ..

Shanghai, Jan. 30. Information reaching here today Indicates that large forces of Outer Mongolian, troops have lately been concentrated along the Inner Mongolian border. Alr bases in Outer Mongolia have likewise been removed to the border. It is report- ed.

CHINESE OFFICER

PROMOTED

Canton, Jan. 30. Because of consplenous bravery on the Shanghai and Nanking fronts. Colonel Mo' Fu-ju, of Gen- erai Yeh Shao's army, has been promoted to be Major General and placed in command of a brigade.

Major-General Yu fought in the front line with his troops and showed leadership and bravery

This move of the Outer Mop-in directing, operations.-(Inter- golian Government is understood | national News),

* here as indicating its endeavour to

secure

Its communication route with China proper via Lanchow, (the so-called "Russian route") | Kansu.-(International News)

TURNING THE PAGES

Page 2 Japanese journalista ga-

in 1937: Closed: Incident-Open Question I gossip we

must.

ther in Hong Kong. Seaman

taken into custody. Local estates. Personal paragraphs,

Far East health. Electrical in- | Page 10-Sports news and notes.

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dustry's busy year. Page 3-Canton Red Cross makes plans. Decree for Naval officer's wife.

Page 4-Radio programmes. (Z. B. W.... Daventry, Berlin, Holland- China and Australia). Pare 5-Cinema

notices. Far Eastern situation reviewed. Japan must expand. Pare 6. Hankow to be "bombed. C.N.A.C. plana in forced landing. Chinese recapture Monyla city. Execution of interpreter. Paxo, 7-The Services. Kowloon wedding. Treasury returns. Big reductions in air mail charges. Three ships seized by Japanese. Appointments gazetted.

Page 8-Leading articles: Kung Hay Fat Choy; R.A.F. Expansion

Page 11-Fanling golf starting.

times. Ladies' hockey. Local yachting.

Page 12.--Financial news. Daily share. quotations. Philippine Mining News.

Urges Compatriots To Fight On For Victory And An Honourable Peace

LAST YEAR CAME FULL OF HOPE AND PROMISE

1938 DAWNS IN TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES ”

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[We have the great privilege and honour of presenting to our readers the following. Spring Festival message from Madame Chiang Kai-shek, China's first lady.]

THE 1938 SPRING FESTIVAL--which supplants In China the old-style, lunar new year-dawns

in tragic circumstances, før the Chinese people.

THE

"In 1937 the Festival came fall of hope and promise. Unity had come to China. Measures were well under way for economic rehabilitation. The welfare of the people was being sought by more realistic administration and by the practical application of the principles, of the New Life Move- ment.

Highway and railway extensions were being pushed on with such vigor that all provinces were already connected with motor highways, while new railways were under construction to link Canton with Shanghai and Central, China, and were being planned to penetrate the western pro- vlaces.

Closer cordial relations had been established between Hong Kong and South China, and the prospects of the development of a great commercial and engineering boom throughout the whole of the country by the end of 1937 seemed äasured,.

Peace and Prosperity Wrecked

The materialization of an era of peace and prosperity-in which all the world would have participated by virtue of the Inevitable raising of the standard of living of the people of China and the concurrent increase of their purchasing power was tragically wrecked by the military leaders of Japan. They viewed with re- hension, the-strides being made In China 10-

Japan's Aims and Efforts

wards national solidarity and economic organi- zation.

For decades they had bent their energies to the undermining of China's national founda- tions. They had intrigued and plotted to per- petuate political strife, make chronle the chaos "of civil war, and hoped through these sinister agencies and the consequent despair of our ́people»td : affect the certain distintegration of

our country.

#HROUGHOUT THE WORLD they laboured insidionaly and in- cessantly to destroy confidence in China." Their first aim was to deinde the great Powers, who had built up large inter- exts, Into believing that China was Incorrigible and hopeless and should be abandoned as a field for commercial enterprise. Their second alm was to secure international acquiescence in their claim to the right to be the sole arbiters of affairs in China. --

Their third aim was to take advantage of what they ob viously believed to be the simplicity or supineness of other nations to establish themselves firmly in China as à dominant. factor, and their fourth alm was eventually to create out of China for themselves a Continental Empire.

Their first foothold was the occupation of Manchuria; their second was the penetration of North China through avenues of demilitarized zones and the creation of puppet regimes. Upon this foundation they began their undoing, of China.

Their first evil effort to demoralize and subjugate the peo- ple (they hoped without the knowledge of the world) was to sleep the regions dominated by theŋt with opium and narcotics; their second was to try to evade international criticism by creating so- called "Incidents" in the hope of justifying the use of unie- stricted force should the Chinese anthorities prove unamenable or recalcitrant.

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China Amazes and Angers Japan

CHINA PROVED PATIENT, and apparently acquiescent, until her very honour was affected. Then she turned.

the last half of 1937 found her In the throes of the worst calamity of her history.

Japan deliberately developed

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war,

Her unexpected resistance to the Lukuchiao "incident" into activities designed to secure her complete national downfall • frustrated the easy fulfilment of the Japanese schemes, and amazed and angered their pèr- petrators.

Thus was precipitated the collapse of China's hopes for continued peace and Im- mediate future prosperity. and

the barbarities and inhumanities of which have horrified the world. Nor have these yet, in this dawn of a new lunar year, diminished in the Intensity of their ferocity and brutality.

Hundreds of thousands of our people are being done to death and outraged. Tens of

"Fight On-We Shall Not Fail"

Madame Chiang Kai-shek

millions of dollars' worth of homes and property are being destroyed, and great regions are being laid waste.

The Chinese nation has met this terrible catastrophic on- slaught, and disappointment of hopes, with a

and courage determination which have

evoked the sympathy of the werld. China is seeing ruin descending widespread upon her, and she is witnessing it develop world-wide con- sequences of major gravity,

TO ONE CAN FORETELL THE FUTURE, but if there is any message which I could give my

that as

upon as we must resolutely and bravely continue to fight, not only to protect our hearths and -our homes, but to save the national. honour of a great and ancient country which is the

cherished heritage of all of us.

If we realise our responsibilities and acknowledge the duties that our ancestors have im- posed upon us we shall not fail. Those who have so far died must not be betrayed by those who survive,

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But we owe it to ourselves, as well as to the dead, to be ready to make every sacrifice, and, confident in the justice of our cause, to stand gtaunchly and loyally together until victory. with the blessings of an honourable peace, is achieved.

Washington, Jan. 18. President Roosevelt, replying to Hankow.questions at the press conference Japanese at the White House, to-day, sald

Page 13 Entries for fourth day of Annual Race meeting, Berlous

shortage coal

inces -Refusal to handle

cargo.

that the size of the two new battle-

Pages 14 and 15.-Shipping news, ships mentioned in his message to advertised sailings; arrivals: Congress has not yet been fixed. vessels due; in radio touch. The President refused to com- Weather and tides. Directory.

ment on the nature of the experi-, Page 16. Seaman Bob Harvey, the mental "small vesels" mentioned Chine Flest middleweight boxing in his message, but it is widely champion, issues an open chal- believed that these will be similar lenge, to middioweights in the to the small, heavily armed motor Colony. "Yesterday's cricket boats with which the Italian Navy

has been experimenting.

matches.

NEW BATTLESHIPS

Size Not Fixed

With regard to the widening of the Panama Canal, in order that larger battleships can pass through from the Atlantic to the Pacife, the President ́said in answer to questions that he understood that Army engineers had been studying the problem for some time,

with a view to the whole nation being mobilisad as one unit in case of war.

The President estimated that ex. penditure on the new rearmament work in progress during the next fiscal year would total U.S. $20,000,- 000,

General Wa Te-chen

SHANTUNG CITY RETAKEN

Chinese Surround

Enemy Troops

Hauchow, Jan. 30. The recapture of Mongyin city, un the right flank of the Tientsin- Pukow Railway in Shangtung, is confirmed by official reports re- ceived here.

Two hundred Japanese troops ware slaughtered during the engagemenit preceding the recap-. ture of the city by the Chinese. About 100 remnant Japanese troops which fled to Ngauyangchen, a nearby town, are being suround- ed by the Chinese forces and are expected to be exterminated soon. There is yet no change on the Taining front where the Chinese zelge is still going on.(Central News(.

WISHES FROM GENERAL

WU TE-CHEN

府政省東

CANTON, CHINA.

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF KWANGTUNG

Governor's Office

The Editor,

Hong Kong Dally Press,

Hong Kont.

Dear Mr. Editor,

*January 29th, 1938.

On the occasion of the Spring Festival, which coincides with the old Lunar Newyear, I wish you and all your readers a very happy holiday and most prosperous season. Hong Kong is a liv- Ing symbol of Sino-British friendship and co-operation. May the many manifestations of the festival make this meaning more significant than ever before.

Yours sincerely,

Jacheter

WU TE-CHEN,

Governor.

DARING MIDNIGHT CITY

ARMED ROBBERY

MASKED MEN "ENTER BOOKSHOP:

STEAL VALUABLE PROPERTY

A daring midnight armed robbery was committed in the heart of the city on Saturday, as the result of which property to the total value of $2,666 was stolen from the A.B.C. Bookshop, No." 24 Des Voeux Road Central,

Gaining entrance into the shop by breaking the glass of the shop door and opening the grille gate, the robbers gagged and tied a female shop assistant and ransacked the promises för fully 15 minutes. later making good their escape.

The men then held some quid close to her nose, as a result of

what went on until she was re- lessed about half an hour later by her brother, who then returned to the shop.

Lam Kit-sham, shop assistant | and sister of Lam Ping-wah, managing director of the book- which she fainted and did not see shop, sald that she was asleep when she was awakened about 11.30 pm. by a noise in the front part of the shop. Four men, two of whom were marked and carried revolvers, entered and after gagging her tied her to the banis ter of the staircase leading to the loft.

THE DOLLAR

TT. ON LONDON: 1s. 7/80.

T.T. ON NEW YORK: 31.

London Silver Market

(Our Own Correspondent). London, Jan. 29. London siiver prices to-day were up 1/8 for "Spot" and The Navy Department, said the unchanged for "Forward," as President, estimate that the pro- | follows:-- posed 20 per cent, increase in navy He defined the term “equalisation | building programme wil cost up- of the burdens of war" as the pre-proximately 13.8.$800,000,000-(Reu-| Forward.: vention of profiteering in war-time,

ter).

Jan. 28.

Jan. 29.

Spot......

.20-1/8

20-1/4

19-7/8

19-7/8

Falice were immediately sent for, and Mr. L. H. C. Calthrop, D.8 P. (Kowloon), Detective Inspector J. O'Donovani and Detective-Ser- geant D. Davis arrived a few min- utes later with Chinese detectives. In an examination made, it was found that the safe had been broken and a sum of $310 in Hong Kong currency had been stolen, as well as $15.20 in Chinese currency and two American $1 notes. Ad- ditional "property to the value of $2,320, consisting of money, jewel- lery and curios and belonging to Capt. Hibbert, a ship's captain, was also stolen. Most of Capt. Hibbert's property' was contained in a smaller safe which had been placed in the bigger safe, the curios having been taken from a crate which was found broken.

Police are investigating the case, but no arrests have so far been. inade.