HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
$1,000,000
DISTRIBUTED
FOR
CABLES
RELIEF
TWELFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938.-PAGE
Successful Speakers
Details Of Allotments
To Aid Refugees
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EMERGENCY WORK IN NEW TERRITORIES
Fonds totalling approximately $1.000.000 have been distributed by the National Rellef Commission for refugee rellef in Kwangtung. Kwangst, Hongkong and Macao, Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, acting-chairman of the Commission, informed the "Central News Agency” yesterday.
A total of 5300.000 has been handeg over by the Commission to the Kwangtung Provincial Government for distribution in the war areas along the East, West and North Rivers and in south Kwang- tung.
In addition, $20,000 has been appropriated to the Swatow Municipal Government and $10,000 to the medical unit of the Red Swastika Society for relief purposes in Swalow.
In Kwangst the Commission first sented to allot $100,000 to the állotted $20,000 as an emergency | South China and Hongkong Branch
Major V. E. Duclos, Canadian'Government Trade Commissioner.
(Photo by
relief fund for Chinese refugees of the British Fund for Relief of der, photographed at the Twelfth Valley on Saturday. rendered homeless and destitute by Distress in China. $10.000 to the Extra Race meeting held at Happyand Mr. and Mrs. T. G. S. Alexan Japanese" alr bombings in Wuchow Federation of Relle! Associations | Lelca), and Lluchow. Later, or additional | In Hongkong. $25,000 for the esta- $100,000 was given to Gen. Huang bilishment of a refugee workshop. Hsu-chu, Chairman of the Kwang- $3,000 to the Fanling Nursery, and sl Provincial Government, for $5,000 for the establishment of a refugee relief in, the province. farm, an orchard and a Voca-
In view of the influx of Kwang- tional school for refugees. tung refugees, into Kwangsi after The Commission
has handed the fall of Canton the Commis-over 40 cases of clothing to the ston immediately appropriated a South China and Hongkong
sum of $100,000 for their relief. Branch of the "British Fund for Another $100,000 was recently Relief, of Distress in China. and allotted for relieving the refugees two cases of Chinese and foreign in Kweilin after the Japanese är medicine and four packages of ralds.
clothing to the Wul Ning Natives. Guild.
Five cases of medicine and clothing have now been sent
Kwellin for the refugees."
HONGKONG RELIEF
to
In Macao where between 800
and 700 refugees are gathered the Commission has. consented to jappropriate a rellef fund of $40. In Hongkong the Commission 600, of which $5.000 has already has appropriated $100,000 to the been sent. In addition, 850 new
To relieve the increasing number
Concerted Open Door Demand Urged
Lundon, December 5,
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"If the Westera Powers do not make a firm stand for a real Open- Dour peace treaty between China and Japan, they may within a few years wipe off their trade assets in China as a certain total, loss," writes a special contributor, Mr. J. B. Firth, in the "Dally Telegraph" SIR KINGSLEY WOOD
to-day.
"If they do mean to make a real stand, let them make it al- together with all the powers who signed, and have kept, the Nine- Power Agreement of 1931. which Japan has broken continuously and deliberately, both in the spirit and letter."
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Emergency Refugee Relief Council. quilts have been sent there to be EUROPE AFTER $3,000 to the Walyeung Chamber distributed to the refugees. of Commerce for rellef purposes and $5,000 to the Red Swastika of refugees in Chungshan District Society for emergency relief In the Commission has appropriated the New Territories, and has con- $20.000.-Central News.
LATVIAN MINISTER
ON LONDON VISIT
London, Dec. 5.
The Foreign Minister of Latvia is at present visiting London where i he will stay for five days as the guest of the British Government. He has already been received by the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamber- lain, and also by other Ministers. He will be given an audience by the King. Discussions on trade ⚫ between Britain and Latvia will
be held during his visit.-Reuter.
POPE SUFFERS RELAPSE
Rome, Dec. 5. Circles close to Pope Pius were again seriously concern- ed yesterday evening by his state of health.
New signs of exhaustion made treatment by the Pope's medical attendants necessary.
It is stated that disturbances in the blood circulation have
again occurred.-Transocean.
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General Tsai Ting-kai Directing Operations In West River Delta
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) ›
Changshan, December 5. Gen. Tati Ting-kai. who took the world by surprise in his re- sistance against the Japanese in the first Shanghai war of January 28. 1932, is now again directing operations against the Japanese in the West River delta, about 50 miles southwest of Canton.
. The Japanese are now in occupation of Kowkong, on a tributary of the West River about 40 miles north of Kongmoon, which is now the objective of the Japanese. The capture of Kawkong is to fore- stall Chinese shipments of arms to the troops in the interior.
· People in Kongmoon are alarm-right,
Tangled State Of Affairs
INTERESTING SIDELIGHT
London, Dec. 6. "The Times" writers this morn- Ing throw an interesting sidelight on the present tangled state affairs in "post-Munich Europe." Presenting a British viewpoint,
Washington, writes Mr. Firth, is already on the alert, as evidenced by the note of October 5, the tone of the Japanese reply to which he describes as "stiff" and its mean- ing "transparent.
But he sees in the way the Japanese official press con- trasted the "hardness of Washington and the concilia- tory, tone of Mr. Chamberlain," when he spoke of the readiness of British capitalists to parti- cipate in reconstruction of the new China after the war, as an attempt to drive a wedge be- tween the two governments in defence of the Open Door..
DELICATE MATTER
Mr. Firth recognises that it is an extremely delicate matter for non-belligerents to interfere when
IMPRESSED
Paris, Dec. 5. The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, according to to-day's "Figaro" was highly impressed by what he saw of the French Air Force during his recent conference with the French Ministers in Paris.
The British Air Minister was particularly interested in the new) French 10-millimeter aircraft gun "Hispano Suiza" already mounted On a large number of French planes.
Sir Kingsley Wood is reported by "Figaro" to have decided on the bufiding of a special factory in England tog production of this type of new aircraft gun to be used by the British Air Force.- Transocean.
PINGKIANG BOMBED
Changsha, Dec. 5. Pingklang, strategle town about
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the diplomatie correspondent of terms of peace are being arranged, 53 miles northeast of Changsha, BRITAIN the journal comments:
but reinforces his argument for a in northeast. Hunan, which is part-
Mr. real stand by pointing to the iply in ruins owing to repeated Jap- dustrial development China anese bombings, was again raided which will follow peace, of which by three bombers yesterday.
of
The German Foreign Minister. Herr von Ribbentrop, left last Neville Chamberlain will night for Paris and will arrive in address the Foreign Press Associa- the French capital at 11 am, to- tlon at its Jubilee banquet, on day. He will call on President Le- December 13.
brun in the afternoon.
"The anti-French campaign in Italy is doubly unfortunate just at the time when French relations with Rome's partner in
the axis were promising to become some- Japan must acquire the direction Over 10 missiles were dropped, what easier with Herr von Ribben-n order to make certain of effec-by the raiders, killing and wound- trop's visit to Paris."
tive control of the vast Chinese ing six persons. A number of The South African Minister of The signing of the declaration market which has been the lure shops and residences were wreck Detence, Mr. Oswald Pirow, returned will take place this afternoon after tehind. her mainland venture.
19 London on Sunday after a tour 'which the German Foreign Minis- The Berlin correspondent writes: This latter aspect of the problem, Prior to the attack on Pingkiang, of several European countries. He ter will begin general talks with "That Mussolint should give notice he considers, is imperfectly under- Japanese aircraft conducted ex- will have conversations with lead-the French Ministers. that it is now Italy's turn to ob- stood in the West, where China is tensive reconnaissance flights over ing Government members before tain something from the dyna-still regarded as an agriculturala wide area in north Hunan, in- departing for South Africa. mism of the Axis, is no surprise country whose unnumbered mil-cluding the towns of Slangyi, to observers here.
NO SURPRISE
"Both the anscluss and the Czech settlement have cost Italy 1 influence in east Europe, and the German desire for a detente with France probably suggested to Italy that the Reich is mainly interested In protecting its rear for further eastern enterprises which, if they cost Italy nothing, will at the same time profit her nothing."
25 many Chinese plain
ed by this turn of event, as it may clothes men are abroad to harass
be the invaders' next objective, the enemy.
The town is the home of many
KQWKONG OCCUPATION
WAS SUDDEN
The correspondent considers that the omens for Herr von Rib- bentrop's visit are less favourable than they might have been.
FUTURE OF FACT
Mr.
comment, points out that Fascist
ed.
fions are little more than potential Changlokai, Mulo. and Sinshih-FRANCE buyers of cotton goods."--Reuter, Central Newn.
HUGE ADDITION TO U.S.
NAVAL STRENGTH
Creation Of New Battle
Fleet For Atlantic
Washington, December 5.
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UNITED STATES
The need for strengthening and improvement of anti-aircraft de-.
The Normandie has been re- fences is emphasised in the annual quisitioned by the Government report of the Assistant Secretary while the crew has gone on strike. for War. "Our former technical superiority in aeronautical deve- Speaking before Communist de-lopment is no longer clearly ap- monstrators at Nates yesterday, M. parent." states the report. Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General
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of the Communist Party in France, CANADA
asked the French Social Democrat
Furty to join the new Popular That oil fields of Turner Valley, front. He pointed out that after in the province of Alberta, Canada, the general strike a big Labour will henceforth supply the British Farty In France was more neces-Admiralty is announced, according
to a dispatch from Ottawa. The daily output of the oil fields s 12,500 barrola
An enormous addition to the naval strength of the United Statessary than ever. is foreshadowed for submission to Congress early next year... reports Mr. Hector Bywater, the "Daily Telegraph" naval correspondent.
marines.
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GEN. WU TE.CHEN'S
APPOINTMENT
of Shanghai, has been appointed Gen. Wa. Te-chen, former Major
Governor of Kwangtung and con-
the
The result of the Sudeten-Ger-'
GERMANY
COTTON PRICES
A decree issued by the chief of panese who are collecting the cot
The Paris correspondent reports that one subject sure to be dis Chinese residents in the United
cussed during von Ribbentrop's States and Canada, being the most
The plan, which Mr. Bywater is reliably informed from: Washing-man elections caused no surprises visit is the future of the Franco- flourishing centre in south Kwang-that, Japanese military movement Ribbentrop will be hard to please
Prince Fuminaro Konoye's hint Soviet Pact.
ton, is likely to be adopted unless there is a speedy and marked Im-in France: Political circles de- It is thought von provement in the world situation, provides, he says, for creation of anclare it was a foregone conclusion tung. It is significant that, so far. in China will come to end is fal-if he is not content with the reply
entirely new battle fleet to be stationed permanently in the Atlantic, that the percentage of "yes" votes
Shanghai, Dec. 5, Japanese war planes have not sified by the Japanese occupation already given by M. Bonnet (the specially for this service, it would
would be between 97 and 99. The| Consisting wholly of ships built
According to the leading Chin- bombed or machine-gunned that of Kowkong, an important town French Foreign Minister) to
Paris papers report the results of ese paper "Sinwenpac," $8,000,000 town, which seems to be blessed south of Canton, on a tributary of Chamberlain during their recent 33,000 and 45,000 tons, six aircraft-
Sudeten-German elections worth of cotton have been exported by some charm feared by the the Pearl River, the occupation of conversations.
comprise 12 battleships of between
without comment.
from China to Japan, Korea and Japanese.
which was completed on Saturday
Manchukuo. Special cotton pur- carriers, 17 heavy and 18 light According to a Shameen report. night following shelling of the interesting review of Italian press risers, 77 destroyers and 36 sub
The Rome ccrrespondent, in an
chasing offices have been establish- foreigners in the British and town, for an hour.
ed in the areas occupied by the Ja- French Concessions are receiving their mails which have been ace many people were taken unawares, shown prudence and a keen sense tankers, destroyer, submarine and cial Kuomintang Committee in a Jews to drive motor vehicles of arbitrarily fred prices which, ac- The attack was so sudden that spokesmen say "that Britain has $6 auxillary vessels such as fast/Currently Chairman of the Provin. / the secret police forbids Germanton from the Chinese farmers at cumulated for the past several meg locked to the west for of realities in wishing to make aircraft depot ships, and floating reshume of the personnel fans, lates that German Jews will no pus loss and hardmap on the Chin
all kinds. The decree also stipulenrding to the paper, inflict a seri-. weeks. The General Post Office refuge. Ta Leung, the county seat friends building having been damaged by of Shun Tak, which was evacuated Powers. If France wants to star- with the totalitarian
workshops. Estimated cost of the Kwangtung Provincfaj Kuomintang, an incendiary fire, a temporary by Japanese forces two weeks ago, vive as a power she must do the
according to an announcement by longer be allowed to possess motor ese producers,Transocean. office is located at the Kwang is threaten by another invasion. Chou Theatre on the Bund to the
|same, but on the termps offered her. east of the General Post Office want to secure & foothold in Kow-
It is reported that, the Japanese ---Reuter, Japanese censors are posted there yong and Holping, which are the to examine every letter before it is delivered.
wealthiest districts in Kwangtung. This will be a prelude to the at- tack on Kwangsi.
Japanese warships are cruising
GUERILLAS IN.
POOTUNG
ถ
Chungking, Dec. 5.
Attached to the fleet would be
+
the Central Kuomintang.
vehicles.
"CONDOR" CREW HONOURED
new fleet is £640,000,000, STEPS TAKEN First steps have already been
Thirty, German rabbis have been taken to prepare for the building defensive requirements of the Eu-granted permits by the Palestine) of this Atlantic armada. Dock-ropean, Eastern and Far Eastern Government for entry into the yards on both coasts are being en-waters have been duly weighed and country. larged and modernised at an initial certain items in the estimates are
Tokyo, Dec. 5. The crew of the German plane Registered and parcel malls are
cost of £7,000,000 to equip them likely to cause surprise.
Regulations forbidding Jews to "Condor," which made the record not yet being attended to, and the
for battleship construction.
It will be found that the British live in or visit certain sections of flight from Berlin to Tokyo, were savings department is still cus at the entrance of Ya! Men, near
Should the new Atlantic Fleet be Commonwealth is no longer dis-Berlin are expected to be en- received to-day at noori in the A Shanghai despatch received built its completion would make the posed to entrust the security of forced In other towns. The Ger- house of the Prime Minister by pended. The fate of the money Kongmoon, and near Tien Pal, here reports that Chinese guerillas United States by far the mightiest vital trade routes and lines of com-man newspapers strongly criticised Mr. deposited with the Post Office is which is north-east of Kwang- operating in Pootung, opposite naval power in the world.. pnot known.
munication to the goodwill of for- the killing of Cordreanu, leader of TraTic Minister, who, by order of Ryutaro Nagal, Japanese chouwan. One of the objects is to Shanghai, staged a surprise raid on Mr. Bywater also understands eign Powerá. The report added that any watch the loading of goods at Yangplenchen on the night of that the British Navy estimates for
the Fascist Iron Guards in the Emperor of Japan, decorated, Chinese found to have arms in Kwangchouwan,
There is evidence that the stan-Rumania. The "National Zeltung" the crew with Friday last. The bogus police 1939 to be presented to Parliament dard relative naval strength has declared that the shooting of the order: The "Condor" is to leave
a high Japanese·· their possession are arrested and Tension prevails throughout the station there whs completely in February provide for consider-been revised to Hlable to be executed. Pedestrians southern districts and extends as wrecked by the partisans.-Central ably larger additions to the Fleet changes in the international situa-speaks of an international Bol-on its
conform with leader was brutal murder and to-morrow morning for Manila, are searched during day time and itar as Limchow, near Pakhol.
than had been expected. The tion-Reuter.
way to Batavia-Trans- sheric plot-Reuter.
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