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Hongkong Daily Press.

No,35049. 號玖拾肆零仟伍萬弍第

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938.

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ESTABLISHED 1837

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STREET BATTLE

DEVELOPMENT

OF RAILWAY

IN WESTERN CHINA

Considerable Orders Placed With British Engineering Firms.

NEW TONE OF OPTIMISM

London, December 5.

CONSIDERABLE ORDERS HAVE ALREADY BEEN placed with British engineering firms by the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission, and still larger orders are expected in the not distant future for railway development in Western China for which a thon- sand-mile system has been planned and part of which has already. begun.

A Leeds firm received an order for 65 steel sidetip wagons and another order is for 25 miles of rails for construction work.

ADMIRAL NOBLE IN SHANGHAI

Yangtze Situation To Be. Discussed

The first part of the new system, Reuter learns wil link up Yun-

pant with Tainu and beyond.

A new tone of optimism is dis- tinctly perceptibl

An

IN SUTSIEN

City Wall Stormed By. Chinese

Chungking, Dec. 5. Street Aghting is reported to be taking place in Sutsien, In north- west Klangsu province, and south- east of Hsuchowfu, according to a Chinese military dispatch received

here to-day.

Chinese forces, states the dis- patch, reached the outskirts of

Sutsien on December 2. Storming the city wall the Chinese fought their way into Butsien at mid- night, via the north and south gates of the city's outer wall, con- tinues the dispatch.

After sanguinary hand-to-hand fighting the Japanese garrison, de- clares the report, retired into the Inner city,

Chinese forces were reported to have been storming the Inner city wall at noon on December 3 when the Chinese military dispatch was Chinese led-Reuter. One high Chinese official} told Reuter, "No one believed we could keep going for more than twelve months. We ourselves did not believe it and thought that in

circles.

Stabbed, Then

one year, we would be finished. Then Thrown Into

if there was no help from abroad, we would, be forced to capitulate to Japan.

"Now we are sure we can go on

Yangtze River

Chungking, Dec. 5.

Shanghai, Dec. 5. Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the Chins Station, arrived in Shanghai to- day aboard his flagship HMS indefinitely if we only receive a

Two Chinese passengers and the little help from others. Szechuan Kent. for a week's vialt

Calls were exchanged between alone has 50.000.000 people and Chinese compradore aboard the Sir Percy Noble and Vice-Admiral huge natural resources. We have Japanese merchant vessel Bhan Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of no fear of difficulty in raising the eng, piring between Shanghai the Japanese Fleet in Central necessary-money." he concluded. and other Yangtze ports, were China, shortly after Sir Percy's-Reuter. arrival.

It is understood discussions

that further

between the British and Japanese High Commands are planned during the week.

A.compréhensive examination of British and Japanese points' of view on the Yangtze situation is expected to be made-Reuter.

AMERICAN GUNBOAT

BRITISH NAVAL

PROGRAMME

bayoneted to death and their bodies thrown into the Yangtze River by Japanese bluejackets on Dec. 2, a Shanghai message alleges. The boat was boarded. and searched by a party of bluejackets | from a Japanese warship when it

KWY

Above is a note of the Japanese Taishun Bank which purports

to be of the first year of the Republic, "1911, but which bears no date and no signature. But with this note rice and cigarettes were

vaid forl

PLENARY SESSION CONSEQUENCE

POSTPONED

Chungking. Dec. 5. "

The omnipotent ifth plan- ary session of the Central Executive Committee and Cen- tral Supervisory Committer of the Kuomintang, which was to have opened here December 15 to discuss future relations" with Japan and other important problems is postponed to a later date probably January 15.

on

One reason for the post- ponement is that the rapid change of the situation de- mands new consideration. At bbe

same time, ways and means to strengthen China's resistance against Japan and cultivation of closer ties with -Great Britaxine United States and France will be under deliberation. Interna- tional.

arrived at Kangyin, important SINO-SOVIET

Yangtze River port midway be-) tween. Shanghai and Nanking.

OF NEW WATER ORDINANCE

No Inconsiderable

Foneral Managm

BINOCULARS

Repairs The Orient's Duly binocular hospital. Cleaning & adjusting done or Prismatica. Proror's OPTIKOTE- CHNA-a combin- ation of all that's modern in binocular construction.

New

2nd-hand Bargains always ready

for the hunter.

PUS

LOPTICIAN SERIES

SINGLE COPY, 19 CTB.

PricePER MONTH, 13.

Ambassador's Chopsticks

Auctioned For £2 At

"Self-Denial Dinner"

Birmingham's Efforts In Aid Of China Cause

.

London, December 5.

!

FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE, representing the administrative, pro- fessional and, business life of Birmingham, sat down to a "self-denia! dinner" at the Town Hall last night. in aid of the China Relief Fund, organised by the Edgbaston branch of the League of Nations Union.

Sir Patrick Hannon, Vice-President of the Federation of British, Industries, presided and Dr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Ambassador in London, was the principal guest. " Many watched the proceedings at xix pence per head trom the gallery. the menu was simplest Chinese fare and much amusement was caused by the efforts of the diners to handle chopsticks, which had been special- ly sent from China, and which were retained by the diners at six pence A piece.

of ESCAPES FROM

JAPANESE

Dr. Quo Tal-chi's chopsticks were auctioned for £2.

RELIEF LEADER'S

EXPERIENCES

An account of his escapes from Japanese attacks at the East River In a speech, the Chinese Am-front with the Chinese forces was

Expense For Tenant bassador paid tribute to the gener-related by Mr. Chong Tin-loon,

(SPECIAL TO THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS "

One consequence of the new Water Ordinance is that, in a few cases, tenants have been.. given notice by their landlords that their meters would be re- moved and that they would in future have to see to the whole question of their own water supply for themselves.

us enthusiasm for the China cause leader of the Hongkong Chinese shown in Birmingham where many medical service corps, who has re- working parties were continually turned to the Colony. making clothes for refugees while

Mr." Chong's corps, which pro-

a steady stream of financial aid ceeded to Taengshing on October dows in.

20, was scattered by a Japanese

Dr. Quo Tal-chi said that there mechanised unit on the same

was no doubt whatever that China night. would cre day be able to return corps have

to

Beveral members of the the sympathy shown by British Hongkong, says "Central Newa.”

already returned friends.

Mr. Chong described the sudden The poet, W. H. Auden, who re-attack by the Japanese tanks at

Facing a withering hall of tank

This, it is learned, would involve cently returned to London from a Loongchun, a small village near no inconsiderable expense for the tour in China, vividly described Tsengshing. tenant. He would have to apply] China's efforts to organise her- for the meter himself, pay a de-self. All classes were united to fire, members of his corps were posit of $25 for it and an annual resist the invader and to form a ordered to scatter, while Mr. Chong rental of $10, and also would have anlted China.-Reuter.

to bear the cost of installation and connection, making a total of be-

ween $50 and $60.

JUTE WORKERS

ON STRIKE

Calcutta, Dec. 5. Fitty thousand jute workers are

threw himself among the "paddy fields and crawled away from the direction of the Japanese, armour- ed cars.

Mr. Chong described the misery of large numbers of refugees, at all the places he passed by, and

In addition, if and when he has to vacate his premises he will lose that sum of $10 will have to go FRIENDSHIP through the whole procedure again on strike in Bengal as a protest said that relief is urgently needed.

in regard to his new flat.

against the Jute Ordinance which Mr. Chong revealed that he will Inquiry elicits the information restricts the production of jute again return to the front as soon Kwelyang. Dec, 5."

that such cases, as, those to which and reduces the hours of Indicating

work as he has raised sufficient funds growing Chinese references have been made are not thereby causing the dismissal ot for the purchase of medical and riendship for Soviet Russia, general but are purely isolated. la number of men--Reuter.

other supplies for the fighters at the front.

London, Dec. 3. The British Admiralty, according to the naval correspondent of the

Dally Telegraph will ask "Parla- The two Chinese, suspected to be ment in February its approval of guerillas, and the 'compradore were an unlimited extension of the pro-arrested and taken over to the war- Shanghai, Dec. 5. gramme for 1939. The present ship for questioning. They were Availing itself of the Japanese programme calls for the construc-seen to have been stabbed with offer that foreign warships pottledtion of 60 new and renovation of bayonets and thrown into the river. branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural up at Hankow might each make(ten old cruisers.Transocean, -Central News.

LEAVES HANKOW

one journey to Shanghai and one similar craft proceed up-river in their place, the UAS. Luzon. left Kankow to-day.

The French gunboat. Amtrai Charner, leaves to-morrOW.

At Kluklang the two gunboats will wait for the U.S.8. Monocacy and all three will continue the Journey escorted by three Japanese torpedo boats.

re-

Three British gunboats, H.M.S. Tern, Mantis and Perel, are maining at Hankow for the time being.

US.S. Luzon is being replaced by the US. Oahu which la sailing from Shanghal this week.

It is learned that at least one American civilian has applied to

the Japanese authorities for a per- mit to land at Hankow if he

Reuter.

Mysterious Detention Of

Five British-Owned Ships By Japanese In Canton

Shameen. December 5, Mystery still prevails here as to why five river steamers, re- gistered in Hongkong and flying the British flat, are still detained. at Canton in splie of the fact that the Pearl River is free from all obstructions.

These vessels are the Tung On, Kwong Sai. Tal Lee. Tin Sheng and Ta Ming. They were Arst bottled up owing to the closing of the river prior to evacuation by the Chinese military, but now the booms and mines are removed.

No reason is given for the deten-

taken up-river by the Oahu but JAPANESE CONSUL tion of these steamers. While the the permit has been refused- TO BE REPLACED Japanese have not captured them as prizes of war, it is sald that they It is understood that Mr. are detained because they are Toyolchi Nakamura, Japanese Con- owned by Chinese. WORKERS RETURN sul-General "m

These ships Hongkong, will

are owned by British subjects in Paris, Dec. 5. shortly be replaced by Mr. Akiyo- Employees of big engineering shi Tajiri, sectional chief of in-Hongkong and are registered, as works around Parts are returning vestigations in the Japanese For British vessels throughout, to work normally in accordanceeign Office and formerly Second No attempt was made by the with the dates on their re-engage-Secretary

Japanese navy to capture these ment contracts,

steamers during their passage between Canton and Hongkong prior to the fall of Canton on October 21.

Shanghai.

of

the Embassy at

The national defence works is Mr. Nakamura has been appoint- functioning normally. Resump-ed to the recently-crested Asia tion of work is general in the air-Development Board, and will leave

to assume his craft factories.

new duties

The seamen strike at Le Havre next year.

le still holding up 20 vessels - Reuter.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF STAMPS

Chungking, Dec. 5.

A proposal to issue special pos- tage stamps, the proceeds of which would be entirely devoted to aid- in wounded soldiers and to re- Hef of refugees," has been forward-"; ed by the Ministry of Communica- | tions to the Postal Directorate- General for consideration.-Reuter

THE DOLLAR

early

TT. ON LONDON: 1s. 2.7/8d. TT. ON NEW YORK: 29

London Silver Market (Our Own Correspondent). London, Dec. 5. Londen silver prices to-day were down 1/8 for. Spot and 1/16 for Forward as follows:---

Dec. 3. Dec. 5.

20 19-5/18

Spot............20-1/8 Forward......19-3/8

The only ship that was permitted to leave Canton was the Kinshan owned by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company.

It is said that owners of the river steamers are negotiating for the |return of these vessels to Hong-

kong

The Japanese in Canton do not encourage the resumption of river) for railway traffic between Canton and Hongkong, although the Chinese in Hongkong do not wish to return to Canton as long as the city is under Japanese occupation. -International.

*

Society was formed here on Decem ber 4 with Mr. Wu Ting-chang. chairman of the Kwelchow Pro- vincial Government, and General Hsieh Yo, Pacification Commission- er of Kwelchow," as honorary pre- sidents and. Mr. Wang Po-chan as president.

The branch Society sent messages of greetings to General- issimo Chiang Kai-shek and M. Joseph Stalin.

of the

Mr. Sun Fo, President Legislative Yuan, is the chalman of this Cultural Society.-Interna tional

GUIDE TO THE NEWS

Pare 2-World's ranking ten- nis players. Cycling. Cric. ket. Sporta flashes.

·Page 3.-Radio programmes. News about the Services. Shanghai fricas,

Page The cinemas. Cross- word. Diary of local events. Musical review.

Page 5Women's page. Wed-

ding bells.

Page 7-Kowloon fire inquiry. Diamond ring pawned for $1,100. New economics 30- ciety. Bequel to city shoot- ing. Possession. of knuckle duster. Hut robbery. Air-. port movements," Fage 8.The leading article:-

Mr. Anthony Eden and the U.S.A Democracy in China. Series II

Page 9-$1,000,000 distributed

for refugee rellet. Pages 11. 12 and 13-Finance

and commerce.

Pages 14 & 15.--Shipping news

and directory.

Last-Minute Evacuation From Canton City

Record Of Red Cross

Service Corps' Task

(SPECIAL TO THE “HONGKONG DAILY PRESS'')'

نرا

FAMOUS LIBRARY IS NOW SAFE

Chungking, Dec. 5.

The famous

Four Classics Library of China located in Hang- chow has been safely transhipped here.

Scholars, historians and states- men in China expressed relief that the last set of this famous library it' was removed Is preserved, as from Hangchow prior to Ita fall Into Japanese hands.

Representing

gem Chinese classics. cultural

the

of

and

An especially interesting description of the removal and journey philosophy, this set of works are of the Service Corps of the Canton International Red Cross from Can-in about 38,000 volumes. There ton to Shinkwan is givsa readers of the "Hongkong Daily Press" in are altogether seven sets, two in the following article by Dr. Wong Man, director of the Sun Yat-sen Pefping, one in Chengteh, Jehol. Memorial Medical School at Canton,

one in Yangchow, one in

Chin klang and one in Mukden. Except Writing of his experiences, Dr. petrol for the return journey, this the set located here, the others Wong says:-

convey left the same afternoon have fallen in the hands of the The Canton International Red with its maximum load, namely 28 Japanese.. Cross had in a way, anticipated the persons and luggage, reaching European and American scholars present events in Kwangtung and Shinkwan without mishap the next of Oriental studies have made en- Ihad planned to increase the ca-day.

quiries concerning the safety of MEMBERS SWELLED

these works, without which China. Meanwhile, things had been get-would lose her link with her | additional beds and to conserve itng serious, Concurrently, our glories and achievements of the

workers for service hospitals, The numbers swelled to a hundred past. International. “ Lew force was to be known as the persons. When the cars returned Service Corps of the Internationaljon October 18, it was decided to do Red Cross. No very definite plans the journey in relays or, stages so had, however, been made beyond

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pacity of mission hospitals by some 2,000 beds as well as, to stan these

this principle.

The Japanese éffected à landing on October '13. The writer -return- ed to Canton from Hongkong on the next day by the last boat. On

QUIET ON ALL FRONTS

Salamanca, Dec. 6.

COLLISION IN BAY

OF BISCAY

London, Dec." B Seventeen persons are missing as the result of a collision at sea between the German steamer Laplata and a Greek ship in the

the following day, it was decided "All quiet on all fronts" was the Bay of Biscay. The German ship. that the time had come to move.. Iaconic bulletin issued last night which picked up 16 survivors, was

On Investigation, had been by the Nationalist Army Head- damaged and flooded-Reuter.

estimated

that about 30 people quarters.

FENG YU-HSIANG

would join our group and leavĘ TOT The activities of the Nationalist Shlurwan. The only vehicles avail- air force included the bombing of

Chungking, Dec. 5. able were those of the Cantonese military objectives in Barcelona The new "Szechuen Dally News” Hospital and the Dr. Sun Yat-sen harbour, as well as Bagunto. The reports the arrival at Chengtu by Medical College, consisting of a munitions factories in the Catalan air yesterday of Marshal Feng Ford saloon, a median-sized Ford towns of Blanes, and in Chivas Yu-hslang, deputy, chairman of the ambalance and a small Chevrolet and Burriel; were also bombed. Chinese National Military Council. ambulance. Camping › enough" Transocean.

-Reuter.