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NEW RAILWAY TO LINK JAPANESE ARE COMPLETELY Warship Size Limitation
YUNNAN AND BURMA
London Financial House Backs Gigantic Project
Shanghal, April 1.
Plans for the construction of a railway between Barma and Yunnan are being worked out by the Beltish and Chinese Corpora- Lion with the backing of a large-financial syndicate in London. It was learned here today.
The scheme is also supported, it is said, by the Export Credits Guarantee Department of the British Government. which is now expected partially to Anance the construction.
The new line would be of bath strategic and economic importance to China in her communication with the outside world in the
event of 3
Other plans now in process of being carried out call for the con- struction of two new railways to with Central connect Yunnan
ISOLATED AT TACHANG
No Longer Recognised
BRITAIN AND AMERICA WILL
Enemy Planes Drop Leaflets To DISCUSS PROBLEM AT LENGTH
Encourage Beseiged Troops To
Hold
OPERATIONS DEVELOP IN
Out At All
Costs
CHINESE FAVOUR HANKOW, APRIL 1,
RAILWAY FRONT CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN FAVOUR OF THE CHINESE.
Complete Japanese Chile, and into tas prout OPERATIONS IN THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF THE TIENTSIN-
blockade of its coasts.
some-
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Kweichow meet the present
Railway months Canton-Hankow
where in southern, Hunan second will branch of at Kwel- northward tc yang and run Chungking, on the Upper Yangtse.
International New
During the past six offorts have been made to build a motor road connecting the city of Yunnan with the Burmese bor- der, where it would presumably meet a highway to be constructed by the British from Lashire, Katho (Bhamo) or Myitkyina, present rallway points of the Burmese State Railway. Considerable pro-) grem has apparently been made in this work.
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The nearest Chinese railway st present 1 the line connecting Yunnan with French Indo-China. However, severni surveys have been made in the past with a view to extending this westward, to- wards the Burma frontiers.
The technical details of auch a project are not insuperable, inte Yunnan province is traversed" by numerous extensive upland valleys. Between Talifu and the nearest Burmese towns, however, a num- ber of mountain ranges must be penetrated and two large river flowing through deep valleys.
crossed
DEFENCE LOAN COMMITTEE FOR MACAO
Canton, April 1.
To promote the sale of the bonds, the Kwangtung National Defence Loan Committee has de- cided to form a sub-committee in Macao with several prominent re- stdents in the Portugueste Colony serving as members.
will
be
The sub-committee. formally inaugurated very shortly.
Central News).
LATEST B.B.C. STATISTICS
London. April 1 Latest B.B.C. statistics show that the number of wireless licences in Great Britain is 8,500, 000. The Corporation estimates that the number will increase till it reaches 9.500.000.
In every hundred families of Great Britain and Northern Ireland there are 68.3 wireless licences this ratio is only exceeded in the United States and Den- mark (British Wireless).
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BIGGEST APRIL FOOL JOKE!
Tokyo, April 1. Rumours current in London' to the effect that there has been a revolution in Japan is today described in official er- cles here as the "biggest April Fools' Day joke yet."... ***Everything, IC is stated." Is quiet in Tokyo and elsewhere.
(Heater)..
Mysterious Warship APPEARANCE NEAR
CAROLINES
JAPAN IRRITATED
Tokyo. April L The Japanese press features re- ports of a mysterious warship which allegedly appeared at 2 a.m. On March 27 off the north-east island of the Carolines group. The Vissel is said to have turned searchlights on the island and then disappeared.
The local Japanese authorities. who are investigating, stated that no Japanese warship was in the vicinity..
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19 CASES OF SMALL-POX
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Nineteen cases of small-pox were reported to the local health. authorities during the 24 hours. ended midnight Thursday.
Ten cases were from Victoria. eight from Kowloon and one from the harbour.
were:
notified Other diseases roeasles, 3 cases: enteric fever, 2: cerebro-spinal meningitis. 2 dy-
puerperal fever. sentery, 2; scarlet fever. 1: diphtheria, 1.
TURNING THE PAGES
Part 2-Beaman gaoled. Judg. ment affects shipping worth £2,000,000, Police reports. Page 3-Church announcements. Page 4-Spanish loyalists flee into French territory. Europe 1 3 rumbling war machine.
Page 5.---Cinema notices and news.
Malaria greatest enemy Greece.
Pars 6-The Services.
in Egypt..
7.- Inter-School
of
Erections
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Sports thrilly. Model aeroplane club formed.
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London, April 1. An official announcement that Britain, America and France, will no longer recognise the limitation laid down in the Loudon Naval Treaty 1835 will be made, according to the diplomatic correspondent of the Timés..
The writer predicts that France will, for the time being, not take any step to increase the size of her warships but should, another con- Linental Fower decide to exceed the 45,000-ton limit, France will be compelled to reconsider her stand- point. **
SIR ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR IN CANTON
GUEST OF HONOUR AT DINNER
THE JAPANESE UP TO NOW General Wu Te-chen
THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTS TO BREAK THROUGH, ACCORDING TO REPORTS RECEIVED HERE TODAY. SEEM TO BE CONCENTRATED ON TAIERCHIWANG, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BRING TỪ SOME REINFORCEMENTS BUT EVERY TIME THEY ATTACKED THEY HAVE BEEN REPULSED N / THE CHINESE FORCES..
THE NUMBER OF JAPANESE WHO TOOK PART IN THE FIGHTING AT TAIERCHWANG YESTERDAY IS ESTIMATED AT 800..
TAIERCHWANG IS STILL IN THE HANDS OF THE CHINESE WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE CERTAIN VILLAGES.
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HARD FIGHTING AT THE JUNCTION OF THE LINCHENG-TAIERCHWANG BRANCH OF THE RAILWAY, PARTICULARLY AT TACHANG AND YIHKSIEN LASTED ALL DAY YESTERDAY AND WAS CONTINUED THIS MORNING. THE JAPANESE AT THESE TWO PLACES ARE STILL COMPLETELY ISOLATED.
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JAPANESE PLANES THAT BROUGHT THEM MUNITIONS AND FOOD ON THURSDAY DROP- PED LEAFLETS IN WHICH THEY ENCOURAGED THE BESEIGEND TROOPS" TO HOLD OUT AT ALL -COSTS AGAINST THE CHINESE UNTIL REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVED,
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"SHAPED THE CHINESE CONTINUE TO HARASS THE JAPANESE BY FLANK ATTACKS IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION ALONG THE TIENTSIN-PUKOW BAILWAY..
IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TSINAN, ADVANCE GUARD SKIRMISHES TOOK PLACE ON THURSDAY, 100 JAPANESE BEING KILLED.—(TRANSOCEAN).
TAXATION
INCREASE IN JAPAN
Tokyo, April 1.
Direct taxation for the budget year 1938-39 are estimated at yen 1.073.000.000 as against yen 767.- 000,000 for 1937-38.
Indirect taxes increased to Jer 943,000,000 as against yen 819,000, 000 last year."
Chinese Successes On
Chekiang Front
Nanchang, Apel 1.
CUTTING off railway and highway communications at several points from Shanghai to Hanchow, Chinese guerilla troops operating along the line reported a number of successes during the last few days.
In heavy fighting with the Japanese which lasted for three days. the Chinese troops succeeded In killing several hundred of the in- vaders at Tanchuanpa, along the Cheklang coast.
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Two Japanese steam launches were also damaged by Chinese unfire during the encounter.
Two Japanese steam launches, fully loaded with troops, advanc- ing along the river from Kashing to Yucheng, were capsized by
All the
Is Host
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Canton, April 1. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Bel-" fish Ambassador to China, and
Lady Clark Kerr arrived here late this afternoon aboard HMS. Tarantula from Hong Kong.
er
route to Chungking, to present his credentials.
Chinese machine-gun fire from the shore on March 27. Taking the population as 70,000,- Japanese, numbering over "100, were either killed or drowned.
At Tingkiaochen near Haining. Chinese guerillas in a surprise 000, per capita taxation has risen
The Ambassador's entourage in-" from 17.7 yen in 1938-37 to 22.6 encounter with the Japanese killed more than thirty Japanese officers cludes Colonel Lovat-Fraser, mill. Large quantities of military supplies were also seized.-tary attache, Wing-Commander K yen in 1937-38 and 28.8 yen for and men 1933-39-Transocean).
(Central News).
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HARBOUR AND WHARVES
IN KOBE ARE EMPTY
Japan Is Sorry She Started
War Against China
"The harbour in Kobe is empty. There are no ships alongside the wharves and the tourist trade of Jagan has dwindled to only five per cent. of what it used to be," said a foreign commercial traveller to a Daily Press representative in an interview yesterday.
For obvious reasons our informant wishes to remain anonymous and he added that although in Tokyo everyday life appears to he ; normal, there is a great deal of hervousness "regarding possible air
raids on the capital by the Chinese air force.
"In every house and office in found there a very strong feeling Tokyo the inmates are required to against the Japanese. have black curtains or blinds ready for any emergency, and the people are living in a state of fear lest they should be attacked," he de- inclared.
Page 9 Japanese retreating
'disorder. Latest cables. Page 10-Sport news and notes, Fago 11-Volunteer Corps orders. Shipping arrivals and move ments.
the "In Kobe,
situation 1s different. Here everything is at a standstill and the business people are openly against this war in China. If you"want to know the
Page 12-New York Quotations. | truth, the Japanese are sorry they
Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Pare 13-Radio programmes.
tory.
ever started it, and I know. from authoritative Chinese circles that
them. They
MACAO RACE MEETING
8. Kerby air attache, and two secretaries.
On behalf of the Kwangtung authorities, Dr. Phillip K. 'C, Tyau. Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, called on Sir Archibald at the British Consulate-General,
FINAL SELECTIONS of honour at dinner, given by
By Last Quarter"
RACE 1. Shih Yin Grand Fair Auk
Hogmanay
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RACE 2
2
RACE 3
National Spirit Shanghai 4 Wenning
3
RACE 4
Gold Coin! Mac's Adventure Election Time "There is no open boycott, you
Merry Maker know, but it is very deeply-root-
* silent ed, this
Victory Life boycott' of Japanese goods, and from what Rothesay Bay ........
RACE 5 I have been able to learn even
Mongolian Cat members of the crews of Ameri-
Mustard can ships that call at Japan are:
Macau Star forbidden, by unlon" regulations, to buy any article from Japan, no matter how small," 'he ex-i plained.
This commercial traveller spends
Page 14 and 15-Shipping news.. they will resist as long as there a great deal of his time in North Arrivals and Clearances. Direc-s an inch of ground left behind China and he said that when he are drawing the was In Bhanghai a few weeks ago, Page 16-Fanling Hunt. Fanling Japanese farther and farther in-he saw a number of Japanese)
golf starting time.
land with very disastrous results soldiers and marines "rolling
drunk” in the streets. for the Japanese,”
They have got completely out US. FEELING Our informant said that he had fof hand," he says, "and you know recently visited America and he that this will never do.”
Captain and Mr. K. Caldwell will 'arrive at Government House for war. Personal paragraphs. on Tuesday,
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NEW SZECHUEN GOVERNOR
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Hankow, April 1. Announcement of the ap- pointment of Mr. Wang Tsun- hsu, prominent la Szechuen Kuomintang circles, as Chalr- man of the Bzechzen Provin- cial Government is expected to - be made very shortly—(Inter
national News).
At 8 p.m. the envoy was guest
General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern- ment.
The Ambassador will attend ́a reception at the British Consulate- tomorrow given in his honour by Mr.
A. P. Blunt, the British Consul-General, from 4.15 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Sir Clark Kerr and his staff will leave here tomorrow evening by train for HankoW .en route to. Chungking-(International).
Concerning the future warships, It is declared that this has not yet been decided and will nöt he, until the British and American Govern- ments have discussed the problem
at length(Transocean),
AUSTRO-GERMAN PLEBISCITE
Plans In Manila Cancelled
Manila: April Stating that he is "acting on confidential Information of su
sky, German Consul-General in Manda, - announced tonight the cancellation of plans for the plebiscite in connection with the Austro-Geridan plebiscito.
Instead, abcùs three "hundred local. Germans and, Austrians met this evening on board the ss. Bergenland and renewed the oath ¡or allegiance to the home country and despatched a telegram to this effect to the Reichs and the Fuehrer.-(Reuter).
| CANTON-HANKOW LINE BOMBED
Canton, April 1. Twelve Japanese planes, flying from their base off the Chungshan coast, raided the Canton-Hankow Railway this morning.
They dropped about 10 bombs along the Pakong, causing some damage to the railway track. Wanshek and Nganchanngau, on the same line. were also bombed.
(Central News).
THE DOLLAR
二
T.E. ON NEW YORK: 30-3/8 T.T. ON LONDON: 1s. 2-11/10a.
London Silver Market
(Our Own Correspondent). London, April 1. London silver prices today were up 3/16 for "pot" ard 1/16 for "Forward," as
··follow:
Mar. 31 April 1. Epct..........18.19/10 19/ Forward......18-9/10 18-5/8
Musicians Travel Thousands Of Miles To Play Over ZBW
RADIO Bsteners in Hong Kong dre quite used to hearing pro- grammes brought to them from thousands of miles away over the air waves but last night they had the unique experience of listening to a half-hour session of music from ZBW for which the artistes had travelled thousands of miles over the sea waves.
The artistes were Miss Clare. Hartge, violinist, and Miss Mollie. O'Halloran, pianist, from Sydney, Australia.
THEY are the musicians on the Eastern and Australlan liner Nan- kin and last night was the third time they have entertained Hong Kong radio fans.
The last two occasions their ship has called here, they have played over ZBW and in between their recitals they have travelled up to Japin and down to Australia
Both Miss Hartge, who won a scholarship in Australia to study In England for three years, and Miss O'Halloran have travelled · ex- tensively with Alfred O'Shea, the celebrated Australian tengry
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