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TWO HUNDRED

THOUSAND GERMAN TROOPS

TROOPS ASSEMBLED

IN

AUSTRIA

HITLER EXPLAINS TO MUSSOLINI

TO SAY

HAD NOTHING AUSTRIAN LEGIONNAIRES The Man

RETURN FROM GERMANY Behind

The Voice

Three Main Points: Frontier

With Italy

Rome, March 13 regard to the Austrían, The first is that his action in Austria was only to be regarded as an act of legitimate na- You tional defence which any man of character would have done, too, Excellency, bould not have acted differently If the destiny of tha italians had been at stake."

Herr Hitler's letter to Signor Mussolini in situation is made up chiefly of three points.

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The second point made by the Fuehrer is that at the critical" hour for Italy I demonstrated to you the strength of my sentiments Don't have any doubt about this in the future and aise nothing will be changed in this respect. (The reference made here is to Germany's abstention in the sanctions campaign).

it as

advised against "Whatever may be the con- definitely sequence of the coming events," soon as it received the news. says Herr Hitler in his third point, EXPRESSION OF FEELINGS "I have drawn a definite German

Signor Alfieri added that the frontier with France and I will Grand Council considers that what now trace one equally definite with Italy. It is Brenner. This decision has happened in Austria is the re- will never be touched or questioned.sult of the state of affairs already t did not take this decision in the existing and as an open expression of the sentiment and wishes of the 1938 but immediately after

Austrian people," as shown" in the the end of the Great War."

not uncertain mariner by the im- posing public demonstration with which the events had been greeted. i

Year

READ TO JOURNALISTS The letters was read by Signor Alfieri, Minister of Popular Culture, to three hundred journal'sts.

Signor Alfieri said that the Fas- cist Grand Council had noted that the Austrian Government had not informed the Italian Government of the results of the Berchtesgaden Agreement and the decisions which followed it. However, the Italian Government had decided not to in- terfere in any way with the in- ternal policies of Austria.

NO BASIS OR AIM

Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, pre- tender to the Austrian throne, bad no statement to make when inter viewed by foreign Journalists. (See also Page 4).

"WE YIELD TO FORCE"

Dr. Schuschnigg's Address

The Grand Council also takes

Vienna, March 12. note of the rejection by the Fascist

Speaking in solemn tones, his vibrant with suppressed Government of the invitation frem voice France for concerted action which, emotion, Dr. von Schuschnigg_an- being without basis and aim, would nounced his resignation after re- only have the effect of making the ferring to the German ultimatum. international situation more dif- He said: ficult.

The line of policy adopted by the Fascist Government towards the

"I declare before the world that the reports spread in Austria that there have been labour, dis-

Not only was the plebiscite un-event in Austria is approved by the putes, that streams of blood are Council. The policy is inspired by flowing. that the Government is expectedly called by Dr. Schusch

realistic appreciation of the not master of the situation and nigg but it was not suggested by a

On the situation in relation to the interests that it could not keep order. were the italian Government.

Invented from A to Z. other hand the Italian Government of the Italian nation. (Reuter).

JAPANESE UNITS

RETREAT

Counter-Attack · By Chinese

Hankow, March 13. Having recaptured Puchow (Yungchi) in south Shansi on the terminus of the Tatung-Puchow Railway. Chinese forces today fol- lowed up their advance by counter- attacking Fenglingtao south of Pu- chow on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The Japanese units are retreat ing northward, leaving behind 300 dead, "Simultaneously Chinese troope on the south bank crossed the river to join in the pursuit of the enemy.

The President authorises me to inform the Austrian people that we yield to force."

ORDER TO WITHDRAW

PRIVY COUNCIL Dr. Schuschnigg said that even

GRANTS LEAVE TO APPEAL

CUSTOMS MURDER

RECALLED

News has been received in the

Privy Colony that the Council has granted leave to appeal in the case in which Chung Chi-cheung, cabin boy, was sentenced to death in the Supreme Court, Hong Kong. for the murder of Captain Douglas Lorne Campbell, mas- ter of the Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser Cheang Kung. It will be recalled that the tragedy occurred when the The Tatung-Fuchow

Cheung Kong was outside Fu Railway

Tau Mun, in British, waters, south of Talyuan was severed in

points, eight different

shortly before 7.30 thereby isolating the Japanese forces along

January 11 Last. the railway towns. The cutting of the railway presages Chinese coun- ter-offensive from the east south.

a.m. on

and three days south of Linfen. Some of the Japanese troops who re- Sanguinary battles have been treated northward to Chaochen raging south of Linfen for the past were, disarmed (International).

TURNING THE PAGES

in this grave hour they were not minded at any price to shed Ger- man blood, and they had given their armed forces, the order, in case Invasion was carried out, to | withdraw without 'resistance and to jawalt future decisions.

The President had entrusted General Schilhawsky, Inspector- General of Troops with the com- mand of the armed forces, through whom further Instructions would be given.

Dr. Schuschnigg concluded: "So I take my leave of the Austrian people with a German word, and the heartfelt wish that God will protect Austria."— GERMAN GENERALS IN VIENNA

Vienna, March 12.

AIR SQUADRONS LAND

Dr. Seyss-Inquart Confers With Herr Hitler

Vienna. March 13.

Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Chancellor of the Austrian Cabinet, who spent the night in Linz had several conferences with Herr Adolf Hitler, who in the morning saw a number of high State officials, and later visited the grave of his parents in the little cemetery village et Leonding, near Lina.

It is estimated that German troops in Austila number 200,000 be- sides 40,000 Austrian legionnaires who returned from Germany:

Eighteen thousand German troops and two hundred bomb... a in the neighbourhood of Vienna.

The first step towards the incorporation

of Austria into the

German, Four-Year plan appears to have been taken with the an- nouncement, at the request of the new Austrian Nazi Government, that the cut of 40 per cent. in Austrian exports to Germany, which has operated since November 1, has been restored.

was imposed with a The cut

view to reductor the surplus £4,000,000 to Austria's credit in the Austro-German clearing account. The previous Austrian Government rejected Germany's offer of armaments and other heavy manufactures in reduction of the debt,

RECENT PORTRAIT of Mr. James A. Fitzpatrick, famous throughout the world for his travel talks. He is a passenger on the Empress of Britain

on the ground that it would injure Austrian Industries and made Ger RECOGNITION

|man goods too dear—(Reuter). (..

WHEREABOUTS OF SCHUSCHNIGG NOT KNOWN

Vienna, March 13. It is learned that Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg has arrived in Tata, Hungary, where he is staying with Count Frani Esterhazy.

Interviewed by Reuter by telephone from London, Count Esterhazy, speaking from his castle in Tata, said that Dr. Schuschnigg was not there.

Count Esterhazy did not know where he was. He had not invited Dr. Schuschules. there though he would be wel- come at any time.--(Reuter).

ANXIETY IS FELT FOR CHELIDON

NO WORD FROM. 27-TON BOAT

GERMANY WILL STRENGTHEN ARMED FORCES

GOERING TELLS MEETING

MANCHUKUO

Further Protest By Chinese

Surprise Raid On Chefoo

"BY BAND OF

CHINESE IRREGULARS

Chefoo, March 13.

A and of Chinese irregulars, es- tima:id at about two hundred strong, coming from the south and east, made a surprise raid on Che-

| foo at midnight last night.

It is reported that they made for the police station where they took

· over all rifles they could find and then escaped. Spasmodic rifle fire was heard in various parts of the city for three hours, "from mid- night tiil 3 ́a.m., this morning.

At 6 o'clock this morning two Japanese planes appeared over the city and patrolled the southern and eastern hills, where they dropped three bombs shortly before 9 a.m. A Japanese cruiser arrived here

OF later in the morning.

Patrols now guard the principal streets and no foreigners have been reported killed or injured nor any foreign property damaged though a German resident, re- tarning to Chefoo in hla car, en- countered some Chinese outside the town at a quarter to mid- night. A buliet was fired at the car hitting the windscreen and in- cognition of Manchakub, the Chifleting minor cuts to the Ger- man's face through broken glass- (Reuter)

Hankow, March 13.. Following Germany's reply to China's protest against the re-

nese Ambassador to Berlin has been instructed to make further representations to the German Government.

Berlin, March 13. "Who has the right to interfere In the Note, the Chinese Ambas- when Germans want to come closer sador expresses the deep regret of

KIDNAPPERS FREE JAPANESE

Shanghai, March 12.

to Germans?" asked Field-Marshal | his Government st the inability of Five Japanese kidnapped by | Hermana Goering when he deliver- the German Government to ap-Chinese outlaws operating along |ed ́an address at a meeting in thepreciate the stand taken by China the Shanghal-Hangchow Railway

Opera House commemorating Ger-in this matter.

have been freed ou payment of many's fallen in the Great War. Special attention is called to the $12,000 ransom, according to the

The meeting was attended by fact that Germany, while affirm- "Shanghai Mainichi,” Baron von Neurath, Foreign Minis-ing her desire to malatain the The ransom was paid to the kid- ter. Dr. Goebbels, Minister for Pro-friendly relations subsisting be-nappers by the Peace Preservation paganda, Admiral Rander

tween China and herself, has fall- Commission at a little town about General Brauschitch.

ed to give sympathetic under- 30 miles north-east of Hangchow,- Field-Marshal Goering said that standing to the legal standpoint (Renter). for the first time since the op-submitted by the Chinese Govern pression of the peace treaties, when the self-determination of the Reich

and

I'ment

East." and concludes." we are of The Chinese Government Note the opinion that China and Ger-

two

countries."...

was tramped underfoot, the Aus-goes on: "We And it necessary to many should continue their rela- trians might now stand forth and mention our views as expressed in tons in the spirit of friendliness declare the manner in which they our Note of February 22 and hope which characterised, the past re-

that the Government will relations of the wished to form their lives. Ger- many would respect their decision examine the situation in the Far (Reuter). but the result was already known for the spring of a united Ger- many had arrived,

Shanghai, March 13.

foot boat Chelidon (27 tons), since summer," he said

Keen anxiety is felt for the 48-4 "May God prolong it unto the "It might be no word has been received of her conceivable that Germany might for 21 days. The boat, which is go under but she will hever permit two-masted and has no motors. herself to be torn asunder again." Six cars bringing German generleft Shanghai for Manila on Feb- als and other high officers have

Field-Marshal Goering said that just entered Vienna. It is believed a 21

Germany would not, interfere in that mechanized troops are follow-

The yacht, with a crew of Ave, is the domestic affairs of other coun- commanded by a German, H. Aust,tries, but insisted on regarding her- jing close behind. (Reuter).

and was expected to reach Manila self as the protector of Germans in In ten to sixteen days after de- Linz, March 12.

other countries. Two German air squadrons have

Germany, he concluded. was de- landed here (Reuter)...

The ship has no wireless on GERMAN TROOPS IN VIENNA

board and belongs to a French-termined to further strengthen her armed forces which they regarded Vienna, March 13.

mian, F. Bouver.-(Reuter).

German troops have arrived in

The Chelidon sailed Ave times to as the guarantors of peace in the Nagasaki and back between 1931 world-Reuter). and 1935. During the Shanghai hostilities, it was caught above the Nantao boom and was slightly damaged during the bombardment ! of Minghong.

the capital and, have taken up quarters at the Brietensee Bar racks-(Reuter).

"

JAPANESE CENSORS

THREATENED

Shanghal March 13.

Page 2. Bank of East Asia annual | Page 71-Hong Kong Riding School For the second time in eight days meeting. Soldier med. Agama sports. Refugee shelter work in the Japanese censorship office re- Maru refloated Jewel broker Canton. Correspondence. Minia-ceived a threatening letter appar- remanded.

ture football.

ently written by the same person Page 3-League cricket. Centra] [Page 8.-Leading articles: Britain's who sent the first one on March 4.

British School and La Salle Col-

Dilemma: Japan-Land of dis-

The latest note warns the cen- content.

sors that powerful explosives would lege sports.

Page -Britain protests to Ger- many against action in Austria. New Austrian Cabinet. Hitler addresses Austrians.

to

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Page 9—Nation's leaders pay res-be hurled at the office unless work

pects to Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Con-is suspended there.-(Reuter). cessions to Navy and Royal Air

Force. Latest cables. Paze 10-Sport news and notes. notices. For-Page 11-First Extra Race meeting. 5.-Claema Page

Para 12-New York Quotations, eigners decide

remain in Hong Kong "Stock Exchange Chengchow. Yugoslavia fears Jewish influx. Broadbent after Page 13-Radio programmes.

Page 14 and 15-Shipping new

Arrivals and Clearances. Direc tory.

record.

Page 6-The Services.

London Gazette. Moscow trial sentences. Pake 16-La Wah Cup final.

parture.

NEW SHANGHAI BOMBING

DAMAGE CAUSED TO PUBLISHING HOUSE

Shanghal, March 12.

+

PROCLAMATION POSTPONED

Reuter

new

I

Shanghai, MarchTM 13. learns from a reliable source that the proclamation of the Japanese-sponsored Central China Government, which was to have been ceremonially made at 10 a.m. on March 16, has been post- poned indefinitely.--(Reuter).

The latest act of terrorism in this city occurred yesterday even-

KOWLOON FIRE CYCLE MISHAP

ing when unknown persons threw

The ground floor of a four-story- While Mr. Andrews, of the 'Peak bomb into the building of a Tramway Co., was driving his publishing concern which had aced building which was used ne a motor cycle, combination along cepted orders from the new pro-factory and dwelling in Cheung- Bowen Road yesterday morning, a Japanese administration of Greater shawan Road, Bhumahulpo, was badly damaged by fire yesterday lorry in front suddenly stopper and Shanghai. reversed towards him without Considerable damage to property afternoon. The cause of the out- warning. A lamp on his side-car, was caused, but nobody was in- break is unknown. The Kowloon

Fire Brigade was in attendance. Jured-(Transocean). was badly washed;

Hong Kong Ahead

KEEPING WATCH on board the Empress of Britain is the pleasant pastime found by Miss Mary Brooks (left) of Cincinnati and Miss Marjorie Sharp, of Kansas City,