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CONSIDERABLE CZECH MILITARY ACTIVITY

Powerful Line Of

Fortifications Face

Hungary Frontier

Hankow, September 21.

A victory for Japan means no peace for other nations and will iend to the destruction of human civilisation, but a victory for China means victory" for world peace, declared' General Chen Cheng. Dir- ector of the Political Board of the National Military Council and concurrently Chairman of the Hapeh Provincial Government, in a press Interview here to-day,

Asked whether it was true that the present attitude of various Powers vis-a-vis the Far Eastern conflict has been brought about by their fear of victory for either Japan or China." General Chen re- plied:

Japanese Intelligence

Bureau Moved From

Hongkong To Macao

Canton, September XL

-The Japaness Intelligence bureau for South China has been re- moved from Hongkong to Macao, under the direction of Major Ushino, Chinese papers here stated to-day,

A group of young women are carrying out esplanage work by frequenting dance halls and gambling dens, the headquarters being in a Japanese import. firm. All the young ladies can speak fuent Cantonese, and many of them are ready to enter the interior to be waitresses, sing-song girls and to serve other similar callings."

The Hongkong office, under Major Suzuki, is closed, as its activi ties were under close surveillance or the British authorities-Inter- national.

I do not say that there is no such fear among foreigners, ISSUES OF PEACE|JAPANESE SCARE

but I would like to point out that those who have a better under- standing of the Far East will admit that this is a wrong conception. This misconception originates with the ignorance of the fundamental difference between China and Japan.

"Japan is an imperialistic. nation. Ber ultimate goal is the conquest of the world by means of aggression. A`victory for Japan means no peace for other nations and will lead to the destruction of human civilisation,

Should we win the war. »we would never try to annihilate Japan or slaughter the Jap- anese people. We only hope that the Japanese people will overthrow their militarist oli- rarchy and line in peace with

us.

"China is a peace-loving nation. ABENDANT RESOURCES' Her goal is to attain cosmopolt-

"Secondly, economically speak. tanism. Many foreign scholars ing, China, endowed with west ter- admit that the doctrine of cosmo-ritory and abundant resources." politanism is embodied in Chinese will become a prospective world Civilisation. Recently I read market as well as a held for in- Ko-kang's "The History of the dustrialization. Under the policy Co-operative Movement in France." the foreword of which was written vade any other country, nor have of self-sufficiency, we will not in-

by a French scholar named Jean

any ambition of Gaumont.

creation of a nation of benevolence

we

territoria)

remain an agricultural country.

RECONSTRUCTION "During the post-war recon-

she struction period.

needs much assistance from the in- dustrial nations. But if Japan wins the war, she will mon- opolize China's market, and at the same time, wipe out the foreign Interests in China

"Commenting on Chinese civili-aggrandisement. Even when China has become, an industrial nation. sation, Gaumont said: First. Con-we will try to live peacefully with factus taught the moral principles other nations under the principle to the Chinese, resulting in the of cc prosperity and equality.

"China's economic development and justice. Secondly. China has will not decrease production in a fine culture as proved by her other countries, China is and will literature and art during the past 2,000 years. Thirdly, under the guidance of the late Party leader: Dr. Sun Yat-sen. "the Chinese people have clamoured for freedom and equailty among the family of nations in the past twenty years.

: CHINA LOVES PEACE "China is a peace-loving nation. A victory for China means victory for world peace. China's victory will never do any harm to any country, not even to the Japanese people who have been oppressed Thirdly, from the international by their militarists and to whom standpoint. a victory for Japan we extend our sympathy.

means ascendancy for Fasciam, Wo

not like the and then another world conflagra- Japanese, this being proved tion cannot be avoided. On the by the confessions. of other hand. It is obvious that a "Japanese captives.

victory. for are

China means the waging a war of self-preserva-building up of a solid foundation tion, not a war of aggression. for world peace."-Central News

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The squeezing out of foreign Interests in Manchuria serves as a good example. "

HIGH EXPLOSIVES MORE A MENACE THAN GAS

PROFESSOR HALDANE TELLS OF

SPANISH EXPERIENCES

"Well. well, this is the end of me. How curious," says Professor J. B. S. Haldane to himself as bombs fall around him. In air-raided Spanish towns. for the professor; as soon as the bombing starts, is convinced that he will be killed. Now Professor-Haldane has written a 300-page volume based upon his experiences in Spain.

He accuses our Government of land infirm, demolition of house attempting to persuade the people by the impact of bombs.

He is convinced that the enemy that they have only gas and in cendiary bombs to fear, writes Lord will attack civilian populations Forbes in the Daily Express. He both in the country and in large rightly points out that high-cities. explosive "bombs are the real menace, and that it is against these bombs thaz defence is hardest.

AND WAR

“Times” On Czech Situation

London, Sept. 23. The "Times" in a leader to- day оп the Czechoslovakia situatiön, says that while it is plainly of urgent importance to rescue the issites of peace and war from the perils of an atmosphere heavy with threat and passion, Czechoslovakia cannot be expected to take her final decision without a full and precise knowledge of what is asked from her and offered to her.

"Germany, least of all," says the "Times." "has any right or cause at at this moment to intervene with truculent demands for haste.

It was-in-common interest that Mr.

DEMOCRACIES

Far Eastern Mirror Well Up To Standard

Of especial interest is the " latest issue of the "Far Eastern Mirror." Kept up to its usia). high standard, the magazine contains more than a dozen articles of timely interest. →→ Mme. Chiang Kai-shek con- tributes an article "Only the Sword is Left," in which she gives ex- pression to her views about the future of China, and says

"The tragedy is that the govern- ments of the denuoracies Irave had, for some time, to how to the will of Japan because they are afraid of her; because they are stil, mes- merized by Jupistence that she is invincible. However, Japan provas herself to be invin-

will-with the probable. unintended sequiescence and direct help of the democratic governments" -conquer China, and will, even- tually, leave her foot prints and her housh-prints tot only upon the earth of China and the sands of time, but upon the soil and character of many occidentally controlled lands."

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CHINA TO-DAY

(Continued from Pare 8) tional salvation work and defence

I saw thousands of partisan de... tachments in training. My barber hung his big sword next to his strop. There were 50,000 Youth vanguards. I worked with childrens "comfort brigade," help- ing families of soldiers at the front. The older ones brought water, the smaller Önes tidied and swept. The four to sixers sang comfort songs! Refugees are set- tled on free lands and formed into industrial co-operatives.

Chamberlain's visit to Herr Hitler was undertaken and the Franco- British plan was devised and it is i in the interest of Europe as a whole that there shall be no sabotage of the Prime Minister's mission-a | mission` that meets difficulty face

Other articles worth reading are to face and is all the more cour-Hankow. A Soldier's town" (by ageous because it is easy for the K. J. Eskelund), "A Kwangtung light-minded to accuse it of want vulage Links Up (Robin Hyde), whole is closely knit and constant of courage."

The newspapers tegards

these liiht-minded people as almost as great a menace as the organised press campaign of Germany and the interest-sustaining reports of petty frontier incidents.

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The Times" declares that no more deliberate perversion of truth was possible than the slander circulated to the world that the Prime Minister was acting under an "ultimatum ** received from Hitler at Ber- 'chtesgaden and that Britain las capitulated to the German show of force

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some organization or other. The Everyone seems to belong to

Chinese War Airas." "Why Japan ly being trained in unity and Occupied Amoy" (Timothy T. Marcollective democratic effort "The Japanese Economile" Struc- Every office and club, had its ture" (Dr. Y. C. Kool," "A Criticism portrait of Sun Yat-sen and Gen- of the Powers" (Gerald L. Bam-eral Chiang Kai-shek. Mao Tse- son), "The Stuff Chinese Patriots tung. Carl Marx and Lenin were are Made of" (T: 5. Young), "&often added. The chief magistrate Trinity of Suffering (Dr. Lee S.

of Yenan was a Kuomintang mem- Huizenga), "Mr. Kinney and Theber, who had no word of criticism Facts" (David J. Martin). With to offer. A very considerable part the Fighting Guerillas" Kaldore of the budget of the region was Hanson)." £300.000.000 at. Stake"

defrayed by the subsidy and con: IC. W.. Tomba) and An Unexpecttributions of the Central Govern- ed Reunion" (Ting Ling). The ment, the Red Cross organizations. latter is a one-act. play by the and private contributions from most famous woman writer in the interested people all over, China. Chinese Communist Arrry and will

** further article in this anties will certainly attract attention.

appear in tomareva's "Hongkong Daily Press.

CHINESE PRESS ON

LEAGUE'S DECISION

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NEW TAXATION PROPOSED

Canberra, Sept. 21. 'The Australian Common- wealth budget, presented by the Minister for Finance, pro- pases new taxation which will bring in a further. £3,000,000 yearly.

ROOSEVELT GETS FIRST VICTORY

Anti-New Deal Purge

New York, Sept. 21. President Roosevelt achieved tils

| first and only victory in the cam- paign to purge his Party' of anti- New Deal candidates through the defeat. of Mr. J. J. O'Connor, Chairman of the" powerful · House of Rules Committee at the hands Income tax will be increased by of Mr. James Ray in the Democra- 15 per cent, sales tax by 5 per tie primary elections in New York cent, and land tax by 11 per cent. by 8352 votes to 7,799. Excise duty of tobacco will be in- creased to 8 pence per pound.

The defence estimates amount to come from revenue. £17,000,000, half of which will

"A pesceful revision of the treaty is hever likely to be accom. pilshed save under pressure of some kind but all hope of revision without war must be abandoned if an attempt at revision is to be represented as an act of cowardly

Airways report surrender. Just because it has be-

that the China Clipper has been come the only alternative to war,"

delayed by bad weather between The paper foresses difcuity in Guam and Manila and is there declares the "Times"

...adopting a resolution to apply fore, not expected to arrive here "Most of his countrymen hon Article 16 of the Covenant in view till Friday.

The total income is estimated at Tours the steadfastness with which

The Clipper may £93,000,000 which leaves a surplustain the Chairmanship of the Mr. Chamberlain braved the shalber States against sanctions, but it day, leaving about noon:

of the movement of smaller mem-return to Manila on the same low facile of perversions in his maintains that joint action taken wise she will leave at 8.30 a.m. on discuss Conversion Loans amount-carrying interest at four per cent. purpose and they are not aware of

France and by Britain, any capitulations' at present or Russia. with America's co-opera-

Soviet Baturday to come."

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tion will be sufficient to "bring pressure to bear on Japan,

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of £28,000. ...

other-

BRITAIN COMPOSED Britain in the present hour.

The "Sing Tao Jih Pao," com- perhaps, is less rattled less feverish

menting on the same subject, urges (Continued from-Page 1) and more composed that

any the League to be ready to apply face country in the world. The mass immediately Article 16 In the event bundled into a car, but the strug- wefore the sailor could be the population is aa little susceptible to intimidation as it Japan relecting an invitation to gle continued in the car and it was in 1914. It is as ready now under Article 17.

settle the Sino-Japanese hostilities was not long before the American. as then. to face any peril in a just

this time barefoot, emerged again The paper expresses the hope into the open and struck out freely. cause. Should such call come, that the League will not again Germany or

The situation, was taking any other country indulge in empty talk and adopt serious turn when two American would find the British spirit reg: states that neither gas nor cen- although sometimes qualified with solute, reckless of conscquence. and resolutions which are not meant to sailors on shore, patrol duty, who be carried out. only to disappoint had been hastily summoned, ap- those who have been its whole-peared and took the sailor into hearted supporters.

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diary bombs have proved to be effective in recent, wars.

CRITICISES "A.R.P. Professor Haldane it his book makes sound criticism of ARP

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custody. Accompanied by the two | Indian constables, the party drove | off in a car to the Wanchai Police Station.

It was later learned that no charge had been preferred against

man by the garage.

what.

Socialist Government

Invincible," the "Times" COTE- might have done. He states thattinues. On the subject of gas ralds he refuge rooms, basements rein-

"But the British people em- says: "Such raids will not be car forced cellars are of little use phatically are not prepared to find ried out for a perfectly simple rea-against a serious air aid of high occasion of

a world War in

Tokyo, Sept. 21. son. A great many more people explosive bombs. They will not re- quarrel. in which it is, not, con- The Japanese Cabinet to-day de- can be killed by a given weight of sist a direct hit, and only lall the vinced that one party has all the cided to reject the invitation of high-explosive bombs than by the public into a false sense of securi- rights. Uneasiness upon the merits the League of Nations to accept same weight of gaa.”

of the Czech-German dispute has obligations of membership for a the INCENDIARY BOMBS.

Better than refuge rooms, better been strong enough to survive even settlement of the Sino-Japanese The professor gives us welcome than basements, better than the the blatancy and bluster with which dispute. provided in Article 17 of principal room, done up according Germany's propagandists foment the League Covenant. The invita- news about incendiary bombs.

to A.RP. Instructions, and some|113-will against their country tion arrived from Geneva yesterday..

ty.

If he is correct, we may never air-raid shelters, declares Haldane abroad." hear the cry of "Fire!" in London is a trench dug in a garden. He

have been

"ANGLO-FRENCH PLAN,

"It is obvious that the Anglo-

-Reuter.

AUSTRÁLIA IS INTERESTED

The Chamber of Commerce has received an inquiry, from Mr. V. G. Bowden, Australian Trade Commis- sioner in China, concerning the ported removal of various Shang- hal factories to Hongkong.

Mr. Bowden states that the re cent news has attracted attention

Australla.

The Loan Council is meeting to

Mr. O'Connor, who, was also en tered for the Republican primary" elections won by 2,053 votes to 1,989 from Mr. Dulles but as a Re- publican he will not be able to re-

Rules Committee.-Reuter.

ing to £68,000,000 which fall due and the rest at three per cent.- on December 15...£82,000,000 ́are | Reuter Bulletin.

He says that incendiary bombs points out that this trench must

tried in Spain and not be dug in a straight line. but French plan does not consist mere- After critical reference to: proved ineffective. Many were must be zig-zagged.

ly or mainly of territorial transter, postwar treaties which were "aimed used on Madrid, but they did little

The professor states that alr-When it appears in all its details at encircling Germany and which damage. "He however, believer raid wardens have been given an it will be time for the exitick to stified the German republic and that an enemy may try incendiary impossible task, that is of prevent propound a better way of securing brought Czechoslovakia to the pre-in bombs here on factories and food ing panic. Their influence will to Czechoslovakia genuine Indepensent predicament, the leader stores

completely disappear when the dence no longer fatally staked upon concludes. "To-day it becomes of armed power in French as well as British policy to

MR. S. YOSHIDA. find, if it can yet be found, a way

London, Sept. (21;5 of agreement in place of a way of The King "gave” an “audience to bind and timid resistance, The Mr. Shigeru Yoshida,... retiring policy may fall, or succeed, but it | Japanese Ambassador, at Bucking-||* will leave the British people one inham Palace to-day on the latter mind and conscience, whatever the relinquishfing" "his- post-Reuter future holds.”—Reuter,

A very different picture 15 palat-public discover that the air-mid the balance ed in his book of the danger of precautions which have been re- Europe, high-explosive bombe dropped from commended by the Government planes. He describes the terrible turn out to be useless. “

· scenes be saw during the bom

Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, wife of

bardment of Spanish towns from the distinguished professor, is ät the air-children, heing blown to present in China: studying rondi: nothing, the destruction of the old uns.

Would war save and spare Czechoslovakia?

"Would victory restore it us

It is now composed and under

the present constitution?,”-usko- the paper.

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