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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

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CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH VERY WARMLY

WELCOMED IN FRANCE

Bonds Of Friendship Now Stronger Than Ever Before

CZECH PROBLEM DISCUSSED

Paris, July 27.

The address made by the British Premier. Mr. Chamberlain. be- fore the House of Commons yesterday was welcomed unreservedly in French political circles as a notable pronouncement on foreign affairs and is inspired wholly by the desire to clarify somewhat the muddied situation. Two of Mr. Chamberlain's statements which attracted particular attention here were his laudatory comment on' the Royal visit to Paris and the wonderful reception accorded to the King and Queen by the French people, and his declaration re- garding the Czechoslovakian situation.

Els warm words of the gratitude to the French Government and the people have made a strong impression on politcal circles who feel that the bonds of friendship between the two countries are now stronger than ever before and his analysis of the Czechoslová- klan difficulty and explanation of the British attitude and the mis- sion of Lord Runciman are accorded unreserved approval it being added that Mr. Chamberlain took this course of action with the full consent of the French Government.

BERLIN COMMENT In this conhection it is asserted that the first suggestion that a

Berlin. July 27. foreign adviser be sent to Prague Mr. Chamberlain's declaration came from the Czechoslovakian on the British foreign policy has Government itself, which realised been received with keener atten- other state- some time ago. that without me- tion here than any diation from neutral quarters "the ment made by him during the last negotiations with the Sudeten few years. While oficial quarters Germans could not possibly be still refrain from commenting; the brought to a successful conclusion Fremier's statements are the sub- Le Petit Journal deciares that Ject of animated discussion in The first the Prime Minister must be con- political, circles here. gratulated upon his Initiative. impression made by the Premier's courage and common sense and speech appears to be. generally favourable. (Trans- self-reliance. This does not imply speaking,

a change of policy in England, ocean). asserts the paper. since England ITALIANS" DISAPPOINTED has not deviated from her trad!:

tional course of maintaining peace

Rome. July 27.

can-

PORTO RICO

ARRESTS

San Juan (Porto Rico) July 27. Thirteen arrests have been made following the attempt to shoot the Governor, Major- General Blanton Winship, on Monday.

Two of the arrested men are alleged to have' confessed to having participated in a plot to assissinate the Governor and the Police Chief.-(Reuter).

PROFESSOR WEI CHUNG-LOH

Will Appear At Charity Concert -

RECONSTRUCTION IN YUNNAN

Concrete Plans Mapped Out

Hankow, July 27. Concrete plans for further re-

work construction

in Yunnan, mapped out between the Central authorities and General Lung Yun, Chairman of the Yunnan Provin- |cial Government, were reveal- ed to Central News by the General prior to his departure for Chenglu enroute to Kunming yes. terday.

Great strides are being made in Yunnan's reconstruction work, General Lung said. Copper and iron mines, for which the province is noted, are now being exploited on a large scale. As Yunnan is limited in financial resources. he said, outside capital is urgently needed "

Professor Wei Chung-loh, one of

He revealed that great efforts are the few exponents of classical also being exerted towards the Chinese music today, who recently development of the province's com- gave a broadcast over 2BW, will

Since the outbreak. munications. appear at a charity concert or-of hostilities last year, he said. ganised by the Hong Kong Chinese many new roads have been butit Women's Soldiers' Relief Associa-in, the province. tion in the Great Hall of the With regard to education, the University on Aurust 6 and 7.

Yunnan Chairman stated that the Professor Wel, who was formerly programme has never been inter- director of ancient Chinese music rupted. Several universities, which of the Central Broadcasting Com- were moved to Kanming from the mittee in Nanking, is also chair coastal provinces have been given man In charge of music of the facilities so that they may carry Tal Tung Music Association in on as usual(Central News). Shanghai which he joined in 1931.

The honorary directors of the Associa- tion include Dr H. E. Kung. Mr. Малк Ching-wel and Mr. Chiang You can buy a mansion of three Tso-pin, and storeys high, with a wide oak door the objects are main entrance, reached by three to improve steps. A dozen windows overlook ancient Chi the street, and a broad staircase nese musical leads from lower to the upper instruments apartments.

MANSION FOR SEVEN PENNIES

Ilalians are disappointed at Mr. and preserving the British Empire Chamberlain's statement, that the

Le Jour opines that Lord Runci- Anglo-Italian agreement man has gone to Prague as Mrnot be ratifed until the Chamberlain's representative In Spanish question has been settled, order to seek a compromise in the though opinion here is prepared minorities' question.

for a long delay. L'oeuvre expresses the opinion Mr. Chamberlain's tribute that Mr. Chamberlain, in stating Italian good faith is appreciated the British attitude towards the but it is felt to be slightly illogical numerous external problems, has that Britain should be unwilling and to revive the music of ancient moved away from the conservative to ratify the pact while whole- policy towards the left.-Trans-heartedly ocean).

GUERILLAS

ACTIVE IN

SHANTUNG

Sinyang, Honan, July 27.

A mighty army of at least several hundred thousand men, fully equipped and armed, is now roving the extensive plains of Shantung both east and west of the railway, striking terror into thinly held Japanese outposts.

loyalty.

to

recognising Italian

It is learned that the Italian Government has given full support to the plans for the withdrawal of volunteers and their concentration behind the lines until they are finally withdrawn from Spain

Reuter Bulletin).

(Earlier reference. Page. 6).

"Purity Campaign' In Ceylon

Heavy fighting has been raging

A "Purity Campaign” has been at a number of places on and of both the Tientsin-Pukow and the launched in Colombo against the Klaochow-Tsinan railway Numer wearing by girls on the beach of Dus Japanese troops were killed by bathing, costumes and shorts con- these roving bands of Chinese sidered too "brief.*

So far the critics are not re- soldiers while communication lines

were repeatedly cut and disrupted. ceiving much support, and their Japanese military opponents have nicknamed them

"prudery campaigners."

hampering

movements.

.. According

to

When they attempted to force a reliable reports, there are more than 500 units of number of young girls wearing cos- these guerilla forces, each under tumes of which they disapproved the leadership of a veteran soldier to leave the beach, there was near- of proven ability.

ly

2

rlot. with the "bathing beauties" leading the attack on the The largest number of

'these campaigners. * units are in eastern Shantung. Next they demanded that the where they are in complete and police or the municipal authorities undisputed control of the penin- should impose restrictions on beach sula. In west Shantung. Chinese wear.

guerillas number scores of thou- They were told that restrictions sands while both in south and were not needed and that if they north Shantung the number of objected to what they saw on the these mobile troops is dally in beach they had better keep away. creasing.

Nominally under Japanese' oc

cupation, "the whole province of FREE “SNACKS”

Shantung, with the exception of a

narrow corridor along the rallway

line, is in fact in Chinese hands

Chairman of Shantung, in com-

MEDAL AWARDED FOR

ENGINE DESIGN-

BANNED

Professor Wel

China

This mansion, built in the six- teenth century, stands in a pic- "Professor Wel is particularly ex- turesque street of Sarlat, in the pert in the pl-pa, the chin and department of Dordogne, and is for Ave francs, roughly the erh-hu instruments. His art yours has won the admiration of many sevenpence. The building belongs high Chinese officials who have to no one. For centuries it was invited him to give concerts in used by a brotherhood of monks. Professor Wel has who abandoned it, and there it various cities. also appeared with the Municipal has stood ever since, a Äne, solid

old bullding. Orchestra in Shanghai. 1:

This ownerless ancient dwelling To secure funds for charity and stands in a street of buildings as ald for his Association and to co-handsome and as ancient as itself, operate with other musicians to in a quarter of the town which has revive ancient musie are the hardly changed since the end of three fold objects of Professor the Middle Ages, and if you buy Wel's mission in Hong Kong. this house, when you open the lat- He intends to arrange a number ticed windows you will be able to on quaint winding of concerts in the Colony before look down

States. streets, on other mansions with leaving for the United where the Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Chengting T. Wang, has made ar- rangements for a tour.

The proceeds of the two concerts to be given at the Hong Kong University next week-end will be devoted to relief of refugees.

OBEDIENT FISH

Captain Harold Thomas, a resident at Saranae Lake New York State, has trained a fish to rise to the surface of the local lake at a given signal.

He also claims that the sh -bass-allows itself to be taken from the water, weighed. and returned without getting flurried:

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They Have Painted This Town Red

France among its many curiosi ties possesses-a red town," of which every houses is built in red stone and whose roadways are of red pavements.

Collanges-la-Rouge - the de- partment of Correze, is the name of this strange town. well known to tourists who go many miles to see so curious a sight. Collanges is an ancient town, built of stone quarried in the neighbourhood rich in red stone.

The town is not only red but is alled with

picturesque ancient houses. for dwellings" have existed on this spot since the days of the Romans.

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· LAKE DISAPPEARS OVERNIGHT

Lake Senoret, a 50-square-mile WOMAN JOURNALIST sheet of water in the Bouthern

Chilean Andes, has disappeared." WINS VINDICATION overnight.

ANCIENT MANSIONS

Its charm lies in its ancient

of mansions

the Renaissance

Damares of £1,000, with full} Superstitious cattlemen, accus- period and somewhat earlier. boasts a church of the eleventh apologies, were recently granted tomed to lead their animals to century, a fine specimen of to Mrs. Stan Harding, British jour-drink at the lake, are terrified by fortided church, where the ornalist, for unjust charges brought the phenomenon, which they think namented portals are replaced by against her by Mrs. Margaret Har-portends evil. a solidly built tower entrance.rison, former American secret where the inhabitants in time of │agent. danger, could and shelter.

Collanges-la-Rouge is a dying

in Inhabited only part.

town,

two OT

three

rooms

inhabited.

ponderous doors. rounded turrets. Some of its ancient buildings have while others are empty and stair ways leading to them have fallen into decay.

grited windows, and loop-holes convenient for aiming with cross- bow or musket at ari unwelcome visitor.

On a wall near by you will be able to see

a phryrlan bonnet, carved in the stone by Some

Several small hotels catering for invalids, who took medicinal baths there are reported to be faced with

The Chilean Geographical In- the damages, printed a book by stitute has sent an expedition to Mrs. Harrison in which she relte-investigate the cause of the sud-' rated the accusation that Mrs. den drying-up of the lake, which

served the Harding had

British some attribute to subterranean vol- Government in 1920 as a secret canic activity.

Messrs. Victor Gollancz, Ltd. well- ruin." known British publishers who pald

A true town of the Middle Ages.agent in Russia... no street is straight, no house the

The original charge resulted in

same height, and every way one Mrs. Harding's imprisonment in in 1923, Russia granting Mrs. Hard- patriot Sans- culotte of the Re- looks in this red town one sees Russia. This charge was disproved ing an indemnity of £3000. volution.

curious pointed roofs. large houses

In your town, too you will And | with windows often recalling our traces of Englishmen who preced-Tudor windows, and fine old gar-

ed you long ago, for a leopard carved on a house front is the leopard of the arms of England of the time of the Hundred Years War and marks where some Eng- fish captain lodged. A poet. La Boetie, was born in the town of | Sarlat, and its houses dear many traces of sleges and old wars for- got.

If you would like to buy the an-

dens.

SPANISH WAR

(Continued from Page 1)

INSURGENT COUNTER-CLAIMS

Salamanca, July 27. An official communique, issued cient mansion at Baclat for Ave by Insurgent headquarters, admits

francs the Municipal authorities

that the Loyalists have succeeded will sell it to you for that price.in crossing the Ebro River," but but you must be prepared to put | stresses that the attacks are being

it in repairs

FUND TO BIND TIES

OF LATIN AMERICA

made by "quite small detach... ments," many ol which have "been completely wiped out" by the Insurgents.

with Admiral Sheh Hung-lieh IN TAVERNS Second World Youth Congress

On the Estremadura front the Insurgents claim that six Re- plete charge of its multitudinous. Keepers of traverns in Montreal, which will be held from August 15

AND U.S. SOUGHT publican brigades. with several affairs. Japanese: appointees to are no longer allowed to providro 23 la Vassar College, New York, to study various aspects of peace various districts, have never dared their patrons with free biscuits.

The U.S. State Department asked cavalry squadrons, are negotiating and the contributions to venture out of the railway zone cheese, pretzels and other tasty

which Congress recently for authority to to surrender. following the Insur- make set up a $25,000 Division of Cul-gent advance during the past 48 to take up their "posts."--(Central and thirst-provoking snacks, fami- youths of the world can

toward its genuine realisation. tural Relations, to cope with hours.-(Reuter). Newa).

liar in many British, public houses.

Saragossa, July 27. Through the Quebec Liquor Com- Twelve of the delegates will be "activities of certain foreign Gov-

from

Nationalist military circle admit Chinese ernments" in Latin America. among mission the Government has noti- selected filed them that the practice is students in America. The remain- The Division would, ainong other that the Republican troops were henceforth forbidden. Any who ing eight, including three girls things, assist in exchange of stu- partially successful in the first disobey the, new rule will risk les- salled from Hong Kong for the dents and professors with Latin-phase of the operations which

countries. American United States this month,

stimulate were commenced last night on the ing their licences.

Ebro River between Mequinenza translation of English books into

and Amposta near the mouth of vey to the youths of other coun-Spanish or Portuguese, and make

At night," and at low tide, about seven divisions of the Republican the Bimultaneously, Becretary Wal troops crossed the river, to They will declaim how Chinese lace asked a senate Appropriations south bank at various points be- young men and women have for Sub-committes to enable the Agt-'tween. Mequinenza" and ・ Amposta almost twelve months been fight culture Department to encourage meeting with little resistance from ing to defend not only their own the exchange of commodities be the Nationalists who were out- country but international Justice tween the United States and Latin numbered and taken completely and peace as well.

by surprise-Transocean),

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The order is expected to prove

heim Medal for 1938 to AH. R. unpopular with numbers of people Fedden, British engineer, "for con- who have hitherto regarded the tributions to the development of snacks as a good substitute for aircraft engine design and for the luncheon.

specific design of the sleeve-valve. Inquiry at several taverns reveal- aircraft engine," was announced ed that, each had customers who depended for at least one meal a recently.

Mr. Edden will speak before day on the snacks provided free the So ty of Automotive En-with their drinks. Some succeeded gineers

White Sulphur Springs, in both lunching and supping in W. Va., on June 13.

this way.

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The Chinese delegates will con-

tries their solidarity in the world Spanish and Portuguese in uni-

arrangementa for teaching of ❘ the Ebro.

wide movement against aggres-veralties.

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