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No. 25016. 歲陸拾点零仟伍萬弍鎮

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JAPAN ACCUSED OF

AGAINST AMERICAN

Failure To Keep Promise

To Preserve Open. Door

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STRONG NOTE TO TOKYO: THREE-POINT REQUEST

Washington, October 27.

IN A NOTE, DATED OCTOBER 6. THE UNITED STATES ACCUSES Japan of discrimination against American citizens in their legitimate interests in China.

·Longer and 'couchéd la stronger terms than any yet sent to Tokyo, the Note declares that the Japanese Government 'falled to live up to its promise to preserve the open door in China, and makes a three-point request for the removal of such measures in Chinese areas controlled by the Japanese Army, which is similar in its ad- verse effect upon American business, to that existing in Manchukuo.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938.

DISCRIMINATION

CITIZENS

SUPPORT FÖR

CHIANG

Chengtu, Oct. 27." General Wang Tsan-hau, Chairman of the Exechten Provincial Government, Geher-

al Teng Shih-hao; Paclication Commissioner. and General Pan Wen-bua. Vice-Pacinca- tion Commissioner, are back. ing Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and have given promises of their support for contin- uing the policy of resistance. It is learned that a meeting will be called on October 30 to rally the local forces.-Renter.

Reorganisation

Of China Will Take 10 Years

Berlin, Oct. 27.

The Japanese Ambassador to Italy declared that Britain's pre- doininance in Chins had finished. according to a report published in a German pater which adds that the Ambassador said that the new China would become another Manchukuc หน้ predicts that hostilities will come to a speedy end.

The reorganisation of China will inke ten years and will be separated, into provincial govern- ments under one president like the United States,

China's military and foreign affairs will be controlled by Japan under aliances between the coun- tries.

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The Note lists at length In-¡ference to which Japan has sub- CHINESE SHOULD that there would hardly be com-

stances of discrimination against Jected United States Citizens and American interests. notably in their interests not only in China Tsingtao, and significantly con- but in Japan itself,

trasts America's unhampered "The Note states that an early treatment of Japanese interests reply will "be helpful" in the in- and nationals in the American terest of relations between the controlled territory with the inter- United States and Japan.-Reuter.

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United States Contemplating Financial Aid To China.

Shanghal, October 21,

That the United States Government is contemplating large-scale financial assistance to "China as the result of efforts of the economie mission headed by K. P. Chen In presenting the Chinese .military and economic situation to high American officials is re-

ported in a Washington dispatch received here. -

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Much-needed heavy machinery could be sold to China or easy terms provided the Reconstruction Finance Corporation would un- derweile part of the credit.

FIGHT ON

Mrs. Haldane's Encouragement

The Japanese Ambassador added

plications with foreign Powers as Japan does not pursue territo- rial expansion.-Reuter,

15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road Central.

G.P.Q. Hot No. 1.

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NEW CHURCH IN COLONY

PICTURE ABOVE shows the Rev. A. L. Ham laying the foundation stone of the new Seventh Day Adventist Church at Ventris Rond yesterday afternoon. (Photo, A. A. Kahn). »

BRITAIN NOT READY

FOR AIR ATTACK IN RECENT CRISIS

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ROBBERY WAVE crisis, the Administrative Chief of the Air Raid Precautions Depart-

IN COLONY

Junk Boarded In British Waters

Three robberies. In one of which the assailants ran away-- without taking anything, en gazed the attention of the po- lice authorities yesterday.

· London, October 27, REGARDING THE AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS during the recent ment of the Home Office declared, "We had no illusions about the state of unpreparedness should the country receive an air attack.

"We were not prepared: we had hardly begun to prepare and we do not know how all the failures that occurred during the recent crisis can be avoided next time."

The Administrative Chief described the regulations issued by the AR. P. Department as probably the sloppiest regulations produced by any Government department

He said that the Government classes had done very little towards air raid precautions work which was mostly done by industrial, workers--Renter

Kunming (Yunnanfu), Oct. 27. Chinese should not be dis- couraged by the loss of Canton and the Wuhan cities but should con- tinue to fight to the bitter end with determination, stated Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, special corres- pondent of the London "Daily Herald" and representative of the Comite Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fasciame, in the course of an address at a reception given in her honour by the Kun- ming Women's Association "yester-luk, 38, manag.ng paisner of the

At 8.26 4.m whe Chung yim- RETIREMENT OF day. In the Deld of food supply, Mr. Treasury Department have reach-

Yee On Company. was walking in Chen's associates are understood ed an agreement for continuance pressed confiden: that under the pay in $1.603 to the

The eminent woman leader ex-Canal Road West on his way to to have told oficials of the Depart of American purchases of Chinese leadership

Nanyang ment of Agriculture that famine silver. Oficials pointed out that Chiang in China could be staved off if the plus wheat and cotton on an ex- and wheat sales

at protracted warfare to wear, out the port subsidy basis as suggested by "dumping prices," would bolster Japanese strength. Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of China's dollar balances, enabling the Chinese to resume their buy- Agriculture.

It is reliably learned that Mr. ing of American warplanes and and Chen and high officials of the US. munitions.-International.

of Generalissimo Brothers Tobacco Company, he was Kai-shek **the Chinese accosted by two men who had the

United States disposed of its sur./silver buying, coupled with cotton forces would be able to engage in appearance of rickshaw coolies...

WORLD AFFAIRS

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to China

SPAIN A MENACE TO PEACE

Every Volunteer Must Be Withdrawn From War

THE SPEAKER IN THE WORLD AFFAIRS. ŠERIES, broadcast from Daventry last night, was Professor J. L. Brierley who, spoke "about"the"present"gituation” in Spain."

He said that as far as he could see it offered no chance „öf settlement to the advantage of eliber party and it was in view of certain changes in t preveni diuntion that he thought the present

situation was a Dienses to peace.

At the League Assembly last | Golug further the speaker spoke September, the Spanish Govern- about the Non-Intervention Com- ment announced that they had de-mittee and remarked that it had cided to do away with all foreign had a checkered career but it had volunteers and as far as General)not "prevented intervention, and Franco's side was concerned, some volunteers continued to be sent. 10,000 Volunteers had been sent What might be truly said, however, away recently.

was that more volunteers would perhaps have been sent to Spain had it not been for this Committee. AN AGREEMENT

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These were all Italians but apparently the withdrawal of Italian volunteers is not meant to weaken Italian support for General Franco.

In July 1038 the Comfaittee reached an agreement on the Bri- tish plain for the withdrawal of volunteers and at present the Com-

CANTON-HANKOWmittee has sent a delegation to

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Spain, to see if General Franco's objection to this plan may be overcome.

Shanghai, Oct. 27. It is unofficially claimed that

The speaker said that the Prime additional Japanese detachmente, Minister in a recent speech in the converging rapidly on the Wuhan House of Commons spoke about the area from sectors south of the question of a settlement of the Yangize, succeeded in cutting the Spanish problem and that he, the Canton-Hankow Railway in three Prime Minister, remarked that places and began to close in an "we shall go on with our enorts large numbers of Chinese troops until we see a settlement of the retreating southward and west-Spanish question until it ceases to Ward from Hankow, be a menace to peace."

Bections of the railway were To this the speaker added that testroyed at Taclinpu, Bosheng- Spain would not cease to be a chiao and Chlachengpu respes menace until every non-Spanish dively, 16, 25 and 15 Elometres, volunteer was withdrawn from the north of Blenning-Reuter

civil war.

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BISHOP OF DURHAM

London, Oct. 27, The retirement is announced One of the men threw pepper. of the Right Rev. Hepisey Henson, She declared in an

in Chung's eyes. Chung struck D. D. Bishop of Durtiam since tone that Japan is sinking deepered one running towards Happy

animated lout and the would-be robbers bolt-June. 1920,

Aged 74, the Bishop was former- deeper in the quagmire Valley and the other along "Bow-

ly Canon. Central News.

of Westminster. and rington Canal Road,

Rector of St. Margaret's He is an outstanding figure In the Established Church and is a man

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Readers' attention is directed to the publication of local and short wave radio programmes on Page 11, instead of Page 13. due to expansion of the Fin- auce and Commerce depart-

ment

GUIDE TO THE NEWS

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Page 2-Claim for possession of premises. Soccer player in Court. Fire destroys house. Poppy Day, fund. Health report.

Fage 3.- Women's Interesta.

Confide in Faith Prior. Page 4--News about the Ser-

vices. Bettlement plan for British Columbia. Most merciless war ever raged. Page 5-The cinemas. C7058- word puzzle. Diary of local events. League's participa tion in N.Y. World Fair. Page 8-Tentative Japanese moves for peace made. ubing prepares for battle in west Hunan, Chlang to

... define policy. Page 7-Women's page. Re-

gistry weddings. Pare 8-The leading article. Disease control. and pro- motion of health, Page 18-Senior League pros-

pects. Home footoball fora-. cast.. England beats Europe. Rife shooting. Shanghai

win lawn bowls. New back- stroke record...

Page 11-Radio programmes. Pages 12, 13-Finance, and

commerce,

Pages 14, 15-Shipping news

and directory,

Chung, with his money intact, made a report to the police..

A married woman, Luk Sin-chun, wide sympathies and an apostle ged 33, living at 125 Shangha of Church reunion Street with two amahs, in a re-

He was Dean of Durhamn prior

port to the "Shamshulpo Police becoming, in December, 1917, :elated that at 9.30 a.m.

two Bishop of Hereford.-Reuter and, strangers" entered her premises Special and, after binding and gagging the three occupants, proceeded ransack the floor and decamped with $24 in Hongkong notes, $150 In $5 notes of the Bank of Com- munications and some jewellery.

ROBBERY ON JUNK The third instance was a robbery aboard a junk in Eri- tish waters.

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Wong Sai, 31, master of Class TV boat 3492, reported to the police that about 10 p.m. on Wednesday be and his two fokis were asleep aboard the craft off Sha Kong Miu, Ping Shan district. (Continued on Page 9)

YANGTZE TO BE OPENED BY END OF THIS YEAR

Shanghai, Oct. 27. ***International trade and shipping in the Yangtze River will be opened up by the Jap- anese by the end of the year, according to Lloyds Shipping Review. The British editor says. "My assurance is from a. usually reliable source In Tokyo shipping circles”—Reuter,

AT THE HAPPY VALLEY RACES

MR. AND MRS. E. C/FREDERICK and. Mrs. Hogg photographed at the Ninth Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley on Satur- day afternoon. (Photo by Lelex),

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REFUGEE COUNCIL GIVES APPROVAL

BISHOP ON SOUTH CHINA SITUATION Approval of the proposal of the Committee to go forward with a scheme for housing refugees by the erection of "paying camps," was voiced at the meeting of the Emergency Refugee Council at St. John's Cathedral Fall last night

It was also decided that details be left to the Committee and that general funds of the Society were not to be used in buliding, though it could be drawn upon for 'main- tenance.

Bishop R. O. Hall, who was in the Chair. supported by Bishop H Valtorta, stated that Government and the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce had agreed to contribute a sum of $35,000, on a fifty-fifty basis for this purpose. With that money they could provide accom- medation for about 350 people. (Coatinged_on_Page_8)_

WUHAN COMPLETELY

The

OCCUPIED

Tokyo, Oct. 27. War Ministry announces that the entire Wuhan region, in- cluding the towns of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, have now been occupied by the Japanese troops-Transocean.

THE DOLLAR

·T.T. ON LONDON: 12 2 13/164; TT ON NEW YORK: 28 3/8 London Silver Market

COur Own Correspondent),

London, Oct. 27... . London silver prices today were unchanged as follows:-

Oct. 26 Oct. 27 Spot. 19-5/8 19-5/8... Forward......19-7/16 · 19-7/16

COUNTRY FIRST RATHER THAN MONEY AND COST

Fine Discipline Of Eighth

Route Army Described

CHINESE SOLDIER NOW COMMANDS RESPECT OF THE WORLD

.༞། HOPE YOU WILL

OF YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS In the Far North-west and that you will adopt and main tain the same spirit as they-of no surrender of China to anybody. I would like you to follow their example of 'Not"afraid to Die and Not Want Money I want you, just as the members of the 8th Boute Army and the people of the North-west are doing, to put your country first, rather than money and the cost to yourself."

Such was the statement made to members of the Hongkong Y's Men's Club at their weekly tiffin held yesterday in St. Francis Hotel by Dr. F. R. Brown, of the Canadian Church Missionary Society, who for the past five months has been doing medical work among the Chinese soldiers in north-western China and who is returning to his duties to-day.

The meeting was presided over by Mr. Peter H. Sin, who," im mediately after the meeting, called the club directors together and passed a vote to grant the sum of $500 to Dr. Brown to carry on his work

Dr. Brown explained at the out-

set that, while he worked with the

8th Route Army, he was not a TERRORIST ATTACK

Red and did not receive the dollar- a day, which all members of the ex-Communist Army from the highest officer to the lowest ranker received: he only received his food from the 8th Route Army,

ON BROKERAGE

anghai, Oct. 27.

A second terrorist attack was

made on the Tung Shek Kung Not wishing to remain at his office in Kiangse Road this after- post in Kweitek following Ita oc- noon when a hand grenade was cupation by the Japanese, the thrown into the premises. speaker said, he decided to do some freelance medical work escape fred

The asallants in making their

a humanitarian rather than poli- one Chinese tical point of view. As a result, he

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