JAPANESE FAIL
TO
TIENTSIN-PUKOW FRONT SITUATION
CHINESE TROOPS VERY ACTIVE
Shanghai, March 3.
TO THE SOUTH OF THE Tientsin-Pukow Railway and in the fighting zone along the Hwai River the situation has changed fun- Whereas Japanese reports merely damentally in the last few days. declare that the situation as regards Japanese troops had not changed on the southern Tientsin-Pukow front. In reality Chinese troops in this sector have been extraordinarily active.
WORKING FROM THE TOWN of Luchow in Anwel province as the base of operations the Chinese troops have advanced east- ward on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and making violent flank at- tacks. have driven back the Japanese troops along the railway there.
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According to reports received longer going on on the northern this morning "fighting has taken bank of the Hwat Rivet but on the place chiefly at Changpolin in the south bank a few kilometres north Immediate vicinity of the Tientsin-of 'Pengpu which at the present
held still kilometres moment
by the Pukow
90 Railway. south of Pengpu; also to the east Japanese." of the railway line.
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The Chinese forces are" pressing The Japanese were unable to in from the west from Changpolin withstand these flank attacks and and Lalan, south of Pengpu, as the admits. were forced to retreat
report today- to the Japanese Tientsin-Pukow Railway to lose Changpolin les about halfway be- the positions they held several tween Nanking and Pengpu. weeks aga
If the Chinese should succeed in. Whereas some time ago Japanese breaking the Japanese lines at this cut off the reports spoke of Japanese troops point they would
being as far advanced as Kusheng,Japanese troops at Pengpu from 40 kilometres north of Pengpu, it their base in Nanking-(Trans- now turns out that fighting is no ocean).
OBITUARY
Sir Spencer Butler
London, Mar. 3.
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Tokyo, Mar. 3.
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"HIGH" OFFICIALS SAID TO HAVE PLOTTED TO. THROW COUNTRY INTO DISASTROUS WAR
REMARKABLE CONFESSIONS
The appointment of the present Secretary of State for Air, Viscount Swinton, as Lord President of the
Moscow, March 2.. Council, in succession to Lord
The Indictment at the trial of 21 Soviet leaders, which opened Halifax, who has been appointed today, was very lengthy and full of the most extraordinary allega- Foreign Secretary, is predicted tions. this morning in both the Daily Ex- press and the Daily Mail.
For example, it says that the accused, Bukharin, testified that Kar! Radek told him in 1934 that Trotsky considered that the prin- Trotskyists cipal chance of a bloc, formed by the Rightists and coming to power, was the defeat of the Soviets in a war with Ger- many and Japan, and that Trotsky proposed, after this defeat, to surrender the Ukraine to Germany and the Far East to Japan.
DEEP SILENCE
The accused. Ebodjayev. was said to have testified that Buk- Prosecutor Vishinsky proceeded harin urged that Uzbekistan and to read out charges dealing with Turkmenia should be separated the alleged formation "of a third from the Soviets and become pro-and supreme spy and terrorist tectorates of Japan and Germany. centre," referred to by Karl Radek The indictment declares that the during his trial in January 1937. jaccused not only planned to open The leading role in this matter 13 the Soviet fronts to the Fascist alleged to have been played by armies in a time of war, but had Yagoda, the former Ogpu chief. also prepared to undermine the The terrorist centre is accused of defence Industries, wreck troop having conspired to assassinate trains and paralyse the entire Stalin, Moloto. Vorashiloff and economic life of the country as other Soviet leaders. well as food and ammunition sup- Deep silence reigned in court ples for the army.
when Vishinski ended reading out The accused, Krestinsky, was the charges. Then Mulrieh, pre- Both papers count upon Lord said to have testified that a num-sident of the military tribunal Halifax not holding office as 'For-ber of acts of diversion committed sitting in judgment, began to ask eign Becretary merely during the in the Far East were carried out each accused in turn whether he period of the Anglo-Italian nego-by participants in the anti-Soviet admitted his guilt. Nineteen of tiations, but retaining it for a plot. or on the direct instructions the accused replied In the longer period.
of the Japanese intelligence ser-affirmative. Bucharin pleaded The present Secretary of State Fice.
guilty in a statement which he had drawn up. "
Mr. Hore-Bellshä.
Governor of Burma, at the age of unemployed in this country fell for War, Mr. Leslie Kore-Belisha.
69 years.--(Reuter),
Educated at Harrow and Ballot College, Oxford. Sir Harcourt But- ler entered the Indian Civil Ser vice at an early age first serving as assistant collector and magis- trate gradually rising to be Anan- clal secretary to the Government director of "Agriculture. judicial secretary to the Government, deputy Commissioner of Lucknow, and foreign secretary to the Gov- ernment of India.
He was appointed Lieutenant- Governor of Burma in 1915 and in 1918 appointed to be "Lieutenant- Governor of United Provinces of Akra
and Oudh. From 1921 to 1923 he acted as Governor and from 1943 to 1927 he was Governor of Burma.
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CALL RETURNED
Shanghal, Max. 3..
Repaying a call, Admiral Yarnell
visited General Eata, the
new
.commander-in-chief of the Japan-
to
from 307,958 in Six months
official of the 37.000 today, an Ministry of Public Welfare told the Diet this morning-Reuter).
D'ANNUNZIO LAID TO REST
ese Forces in Central China, at Gabriella D'Annunzio, the famous 10a.m. today, according to the
Japanese spokesman- at the press conference this morning.
He did not reveal where the meeting took place.-(Reuter).
Ilallan poet, whose death occurred
on March 11 at Lake Garda.
is mentioned as the successor to viscount Swinton.-(Transocean).
DELPHINUS
INCIDENT
NOW CLOSED
London, Mar. 2.
The incident arising out of the alleged fring by Japanese warcraft on an Imperial Air- ways plane Delphinus, while the latter was travelling from Penang to Hong Kong on Feb- ruary 21 is considered closed in official circles in London.
It was perhaps an overstate. ment to call the explanation made by the Japanese Consul- General In Hong Kong an apology, but this was the inter- pretation originally placed on it-(Reuter):
VARIABLE WEATHER IN FEBRUARY
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Temperature Slightly Above Normal
For example, a military freight train was wrecked at Volomayrvea. when 21 persons were killed and 45 injured.
The Indictment alleges that Maxim Gorky and other pro- minent Soviet leaders were victims of a plot to "liquidate" the Soviet leaders in order to facilitate the defeat of the Soviet in war.
ANOTHER TRIAL
KRESTINSKY DENIES Krestinsky, the former deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs. however.. replied with a frm "no.") He was pale as death as he faced his accusers and shouted. "I am no Trotskyist! I am no criminal! I have never had anything to do with the intelligence services of foreign powers!"
Krestinsky's outburst took the court by surprise, as a substantial The recent disappearance of part of the charges is based on seven prominent Soviet leaders is his own admissions. explained by the testimony of the
Krestinsky further told the accused, Grinko, who incriminated court that he retracted all the them in the alleged plot.
statements made by him, during They were Rudzutak, former the
examination. preliminary member of the all-powerful Poll- insisting that he had made them tical Bureau; Yakovleva, woman under compulsion.
Commissar of Finance; Ossinsky, Immediately after this зед- chief of the Statistical Adminis-sational incident occurred the tration; Yakovlec, president of the court adjourned.--(Transocean). Agricultural Commission of the Communist Party; Antipov, secre tary of the Central Executive Com- Following a brief interruption mittee; Bergamin, political chief when the former deputy Foreign
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London, Mar. 3.
EDUCATION
AND THE STATE
Professor Forster's
Lecture
It Was not until after the Napoleonic War that Germany The Duke 01 Alba, General realised the Importance of educa- at the Great Northern sea route. Commissar Krestinsky withdrew France's London agent, yesterday tion, declared Professor L Forster who appears to have been charged his confession, the trial was con-handed a note to the Foreign ka lecture entitled "Educatión with plotting to assassinate Stalin,tinued on yesterday afternoon with office which gives an authentic/and the State" given at the Euro- and Varelkhis, secretary of the the cross-examination of the form-text of the speech delivered by Communist Party.
Rome. Mar. 3. The weather during the month The funeral of the late Gabrielle was very variable, and showed It transpired today that all had D'Annunzio took place this mom- some unusual features. From the been arrested and would be tried ing in the parish church of | 1st to the 6th cloudy skies prevali-separately.—(Reuter),'.. PACIFICATION COMMISSIONER Gardont where Signor Mussolinied, with occasional drizzle. Tem
OF SZECHUEN AND SIKONG and other leaders of the Fascist perature was slightly above nor-
Hankow Mar. 3. General Teng Hsi-hou. newly-y proceeded yesterday to pay mal.
appointed Pacification
THE FIRST ACT
pean Y.M.C.A. at Kowloon Jast
er Councillor of the Berlin Ex-General Queipo de Llano in which night. The speaker was introduced bassy, Bessonoff.
the General referred to Gibraltar. Bessonoff admitted that he was chief Watson officer between Trotsky and the latter's, followers in Russia. Pjatakoff and Krestin- sky.
When
asked prosecutor
the
Moscow, Mar. 3. last respects to Italy'B A spell of cold weather with al- The first act of the trial of Commis-famous poet.(Reuter Bulletin).
in on the 6th, and culminated inders began here punctually at a thunderstorm on the morning of noon yesterday in the so-called Krestinsky answered, "Besseroff's
assertions are untrue.' the 13th.
A sudden clearance fol- "blue hall" of the trade union lowed, and the afternoon of the building." 13th was exceptionally fine and clear.
most continuous "rain or drizzle set the 21 prominent Soviet lea- whether these assertions were true,
sioner of Szechuen" and Bikong provinces, is proceeding today by air to Chungking en route to Chengtu to assume his new post. --Reuter).
NEW FRENCH LABOUR CODE ADOPTED
ocean).
Paris. Mar. 3.
AUSTRIAN ARMY CHIEF RETIRES
Vienna, Mar, 3. The retirement of the Chief of the Austrian General Staff. Field Marshal Jansa, was announced
BRIBED FOR ESPIONAGE
at..
The general setting was the When the prosecutor pointed out same as in other recent trials of that hla statements were
character. The From the 14th to the 20th the similar
accused, variance, with the confession made yesterday. His place will be taken weather was variable, with some were led Into the court by armed before the trial opened, Krestinsky sunny periods and occasional Ogpu agents, two of whom remain-said, "I did not make those state- by General Boehme.
with this change.-(Transocean),
February.
Cabinet Decides Basis For month was 58.8 deg. F., which is
Anglo-Italian Talks
corroborating ali
General de Llano
by the Chairman, Professor R. Robertson. ':
It was generally agreed that the (national scheme of education bore fruit in 1870 when German arms triumphed at Sedan, and gave Ger- many her dominant position in the mainland of Europe until 1918, said Prof. Forstor. Failure in the Great War had forced her once again to review her national aya-... [tem, and brought about those changes which guaranteed. her security against future enemies. It was the fear of future wars and the memory of defeat that domin- ated the motive behind the educa- Honal policy of Germany today. ́ ́
In England the municipalities jealously guarded their schools and only permitted the Government [to inspect and advise but not to
dictate and to untry.
Education in the United States
aum
The Chamber of Deputies adopt It is announced that, the high drizzle. On the 21st the weathered with fixed bayonets and mount-ments voluntarily. I confessed in ed the new Labour Code late last command of the Austrian Army cleared and remained fine with ed guard over the dock where the order to be able to tell the truth
at the trial” 'night by 408 votes to 190.-(Trans- will be reorganised in connection almost unbroken sunshine for the accused were seated.
A few foreign diplomats and The next accused to be question- rest of the month. A week of sunny weather is most unusual in about 20 Journalists were presented was the former Finance Com- when Vishinski, the public pro- missar Grinko, who made a lengthy The mean temperature for the 1secutor, rose to his feet to read out confession
the charges. The reading took charges in the indictment. He ad- It had been alleged that the ts chiefly encouraged by the GoT- normal. A maximum of 77.8 deg. two hours
mitted that he was responsible for General declared, that "Gibraltar ernment, and yearly the The accused are alleged to have all deficiencies in the Soviet finan-will fortunately soon cease to be a thorities devote a large portion of was recorded on the 16th, and a}
lair of pirates which it is today." minimum of 47.2 deg. on the 8th. plotted with certain foreign states cial system.
its revenue to the support of uni- The last accused examined yes- The note presented by the Duke versities and other educational. The mean relative humidity was 80 for the overthrow and dismember- per cent.. against a normal of 79/ment of the Soviet Union as well terday" was the former Commissar of Alba cites a telegram from the facilities, said the lecturer.
as for the restoration of capitalism for Agriculture, Chernoff, who like- Spanish Nationalist Foreign Minis-' | In China the growth of a na- the country. The public wise admitted his guilt. Besides ter, Senor Jordana, which em- tional consciousness, the gradua) Sunshine amounted to 104 hours, within
prosecutor stressed the point that admitting sabotage on a large phatically denies that General extension of educational facilities which is 9 hours in excess of nor-the charges had been based on scale, he admitted having been Queipo de Llano had made the re to the peasant and industrial mal. The daily total exceeded 10:
for espionage. (Trans-marks as published in the press.group, the rapid growth of univer- hours on the last 8 days of the what the accused had themselves bribed
confessed."
The note points out that the sities and schools had just begun General merely declared that to emerge before the outbreak of Spain must always be strong, since the present war.
MEDITERRANEAN AND AFRICAN QUESTIONS IN THE FOREFRONT
London, March 3,
Guiding principles for the impending Anglo-Itallan nego- tiations were decided and approved by the British Cabinet af Its regular session yesterday.
per cent.
month.
The month was the wettest Feb-
Lord Perth will return to Rome Italian fortifications in the Red raary since 1922. the total rainfall
at the end of the week and it is Sea.
generally expected here that the
•
talks will open in the early part of the ensuing week.
Certain questions concerning the future of Lake Tana are also in-
being 4.69 inches, which is 2.03 ins. greater than normal.
TO CONSULT EGYPT
noon on the 8th.
London, Mar. 2.
of
The Prime Minister told the Commons that His
ROOF LOITERER Convicted on the charge of lol-
Even if the initial contacts suc-
ceed in opening up a prospect of
FILING OF SHARES Before the Chief Justice, Sir
ocean).
BENCH GIVES CHANCE
periods of weakness had most fatal
Education, therefore, is to give consequences, as for instance the the individual a wider view of life
war.
The maximum wind velocity in a Atholl MacGregor, in the Suprems A chance was given to a returned period which followed the Spanish and the state a collective interest, cluded, it is stated.(Transocean). gust was 44 m.p.h.. recorded at yesterday, the Organic Fertilizer banishee, Wan Ching. aged 32. war of secession when Spain lost to call upon its youth in time of
Co. Ltd., brought an application when he was charged before Mr. Gibraltar and also the present, Was rite.-- for an extension of time to fie the R. A. D. Forrest at Central. Magis- when Red Influence
(Transocean), an ultimate agreement there still
return of an allotment of shares. tracy yesterday. remains the likelihood of negotia-House
Mr. E. C. Macnamara, instruct- He was only five months short
Curious to know what were the tions dragging on until the end Majesty's Government proposed to tering on the roof of No. 50 Mor-ed by Mr. W. M. Brown, on behalf of completing his term of the five of April.
consult the Egyptian Government rison Hill Road on Wednesday, of the applicants, said that owing years and as Sergeant Jessop said contents of a tin found near a According to the Star, the pro- in accordance with the provisions night, Pang Hol, 20, was remanded to inadvertence his clients had there was 2. possibility he might garbage lot on Oakland Path, gramme of negotiations will in-of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty on 24 hours by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest failed to die the return which have miscalculated his time, Bis yesterday. Ng Ban, 62, was beriously clude the question of Italy's air all matters affecting Egyptian at the Central Magistracy yester-should have been made in Janu- Worship accepted defendant's pro- injured when the tin, containing and territorial forces in Lybia, the interests which arose during the day in order that he might find aáry, 1936.
mise not to stay away from the bomb, exploded. The woman was fortification of certain Italian 15-forthcoming Anglo-Itallan conver- guarantor for his future good be- His Lorship ordered that the re Colony till his time had expired. removed to the Queen Mary Hos
haviour.
pital. lands in the Mediterranean and 'sations-(British Wireless),
tum be filed within seven days. Defendant was cautioned.
HSU. LEAVES FOR ITALY
Hsinking, Max. 3. Mr. Hsu Chao-ching, Manchu- kuo's first envoy to. Italy, left here yesterday afternoon for his new post by way of Tokyo where he is conferring with Javanese 'oficials.
(Reuter);
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