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Hongkong Daily Press.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1938.

.No. 25061 號眥拾陔零仟伍萬弍第

日拾叁月拾年寅戊

FUNDAMENTAL

15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road Central

GP.O. Box No. 1.

CHANGE OF

OF CHINESE STRATEGY

AS SECOND PHASE OF WAR

GETS UNDER WAY

Chief Engagements

Will Take Place In

Mountainous

Regions

Organisation Of Intensive

Guerilla Warfare Planned

Chungking. December 20.

General Chen Cheng, former Garrison Commander of Hankow and now Commander of the Fourth War Zone and the territory around Tochow, who is at present staying in Chungking, fold press representatives on Tuesday that the fundamental change of Chinese strategy as compared with the first phase of the war that closed with the fall of Ilankuw would now begin. During the first phase. China, it is true, had had great losses of territory but at the same tingg

had prevented the Japanese from gaining any decisive victory.

Now the second phase of the war begins which, according to a decision of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek would be characterised by the continuation of resistance and tactics of wearing the enemy down

who were reorganising for new attacks.

YUNNAN-BURMA

HIGHWAY

Kunming, Dec. 20.

The much-talked of Yunnan- Burma highway has been com- picted Although not yet per- fect, & considerable number of trucks have arrived from Burma by the new road. Both heavy and light trucks are now a common sight on this, Yun- nan's most famous road.

Work on the Yunnan-Burma rallway is progressing, The surveying of the line from Kun- ming has now reached Yun- nar-i, a small bus-stop a few miles east of Talifu. At this point the new railway leaves the blahway and turn south- west.-International:

JAPANESE

ADMIRAL

RECALLED

Dissension With The Army

(From

According to Gen. Chen's in- formation the Japanese aim was, to break the communications be-

Our Own Correspondent) tween China and Soviet Russia, a

Chungshan, Dec. 20. blockade of the Chinese coast; The chief engageraents will take consolidation of occupied terri-

Acute riyalry between the Japan- place in mountain regions where tories and, finally, strengthening es army and navy operating in mechanised units of the Japanese the organisation

Kwangtung led to the recall of would be at a disadvantage while Japanese governments that is, the Vice-Adm. Koichi Shiozawa as com- the initiative would remain with so-called "puppet zovernments" in mander-in-chief of the Japanese the Chinese. For the enemy this

Fleet in South China waters. it occupied territories. transfer of scent of hostilities to

was revealed here today. mountainous territory meant in- crease of hazards,

Behind the Japanese front Intensified guerilla warfare would be organised. Gen. Chen explained · the present »quietness at the front by the fact that after the fall of Hankow both sides are re- grouping their forces and this operation is taking consider- able time. Gen. Chen em- phasised that this was parti=" cularly true of the Japanese

London Is Colder Than Spitzbergen

of

pro-

The dissension dated from the

The Chinese plans, stated Gen Chen, envisaged Chinese resistance landing at Blas Bay on October 1, behind Japanese lines strengthen when the bluejackets decided not ed both by irregulars and soldiers, to go on with the advance and also more Intensive training of left all fighting to the army. Be- troops.

cause of this lack of co-ordination;

At the same time Gen. Chen it is said that Lieut-Gen: Matto appealed to the Chinese popula- Furuatio was the first to be relley- tion above all to officials, to adapted and was succeeded by Lieut.- their mode of living to war-time Gen, Eikichi Ando. needs and in this follow the example of the fighting soldiers as well as that of the innumerable refugees.Transocean.

GIANT PANDAS FOR THE ZOO

Lohdon. Dec. 20.

A remarkable collection of animals from mountains in Cen- ral China among which are the first giant pandas imported to Europe are expected at the London

on December 22

BITTER WEATHER 200

SWEEPS EUROPE

London, Dec. 20. The cold wave in England.is dis- cussed this morning by all news- papers which point out that Lon- don is at present colder than Spitzbergen which is only about 1,000 kilometres distant from the North Pola

The higbroads of England are sli covered with ice.

Up till now, 25 deaths have been caused directly by the extraor- dinarily cold weather.-Transocean. CITY DESERTED

Paris, Dec. 20.

For more than a hundred years France has not experienced such

cold as that prevailing at present:

ONE OF THE PANDAS

The streets of the French capital,

Major

many

PUBLIC' WARNED

The public is warned that the "Hongkong Daily Press re- fuses to assume any responsi bility for goods obtained by persons who are unable to present requisitions for same signed by the General Manager,

HANGING AT STANLEY

Boarding House

Crime Recalled

GOVERNOR'S CONGRATULATIONS

T

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor Sir Geoffry Northcote, at ̈ the Island v. Mainland schools physical drill display at the E.F.C. congratulating a teacher for his "work in physical training. (Photo: "AA. Kahn).

Bench Warns Principal Tenants

DEGREE DAY AT THE UNIVERSITY

登廿月弍拾捌拾叁佰玖千查英

ROTARY TIFFIN

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SINGLE COPY, 10 CTS.

Price PER MONTH, $3.

Mrs. D.J.S. Crozier Makes

Appeal For $40,000 For

Work Of The Society For Protection Of Children

A STIRRING APPEAL FOR $10,000 for their work in 1939 was made by Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier, Hon. Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Children, when speaking on the subject, "Children of the Dead End" at Ladies' Day of the Hongkong Rotary Club at the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden yesterday.

"Last year the Society spent $1.558 beyond its income and this year the income again fell short of expenditure." said the speaker: "The Society is not going to be floored. It has hope. It is going to expand. In our fight against poverty our first lines ure aux con- tres. But we have not enough of them. A centre costs a little more than 35,000 a year and we haven't got the money for any more. But we are going out to get it."

The Hon. Dr. Shu-fan pre- [sided and welcomed the following

visiting Rotarians and guests:-Dr. EUROPEAN

C. T. Huang, Messrs. W. O. Nodes.

T. C. Yu, E L Pan, H. Kadoorie,

A. Hofmeister, Frank Turkey, B. W. Robinson, George A. Fitsh, H

M. van der Schalk, and George, G. Helde.

Season's greetings were received from Captain Ferguson, a former member Rotary Clubs of Mel- bourne, California, New South Wales, Hasting, N. Z., Columbo, England, and the International Service Committee.

MRS. CROZIER'S ADDRESS

Mrs. Crozier said, in parti

There may be some of you nere to-day thinking as I was tempted

REPORTED

MISSING

Left Letter To His Father

A 'European, named Ronald ́ John Egan, aged 20 years, is missing, according to a police report circulated last night,

Yesterday morning Egan left the home of his parents at No. 36, to think in these last few weeks, Hillwood Road, Kowloon, to go to shocked by the happenings so work at the Radio Workshop in close to our borders, that the Bo-Wanchal clety's claims On Hongkong's "At 1.30 p.m..his father found a charity must for the moment letter, written by Ronald Egan, in take second place. But, in the which the latter pointed out that past week, I have spent a lot of he was leaving the Colony because time at the Society's Centres and his employment at the Workshop what I have seen has made me is to be terminated in three realize that more than ever are we months' time. in need of your support,

TTIS' EXCELLENCY THE Gorer- H'S

nor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, Government and the Emergency K.C.M.G., conferred the degrees on Refugee Relief Council are doing HEROIN DIVANS

ten graduates of the University" of their best to make provision for

ITALIAN FINED ON PREMISES

Hongkong yesterday when a small them; but o.ganising homeless

Tunis, Dec. 20. number of guests were "Invited to wanderers takes time and mean- Principal teriants are warned the function,

while their babies must be fed. Fascist leader, was sentenced to"

An Italian resident, who is a that they are liable to be prosecut- The ceremony is not to be con- Many of us are personally aware three months' imprisonment and ed and, if convicted, will be fused with the Annual Congrega- of the housing shortage but none fined 500 francs on a charge of in- severely purished if they permit, tion Day as this special one waa

(Continued on Back Page) or fall to disclose to the authort- arranged in order that the medical tics, any breaches in connection graduates may receive their de with the new Drag Ordinance on grees earlier instead of, having to the part of their tenants.

wait until the May ceremony.

The warning was sounded by Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Court yesterday when he convict- ed a woman, Ho Kwal-hing, "and Imposed a fine of $500, in default, six months' hard labour for 'per- mitting a house to be used as a heroin divan.

Ho was the first person charged

Lf Man, allas Li Wal-man, 43- under this Ordinance. year-old unemployed ship's grenser,

THE GRADUATES Degrees were conferred on the following:-

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY Choong Ka Khey (Absent)," Bar, bara Chu. Ha Yat Wah, Ip Kung Chiu, Koe Kheng Loke, Leong Kain Leng. Philip Moore, Constantine Constantinovich Petrovsky, Yong

was to be hanged at Stanley Prison Houston said:-.

Before Imposing sentence, Mr. Pung Fook.

at dawn for the murder of Pun

Shing.

This is the first case under Sec- Almost exactly a month ago, on tion 3 (d) of Ordinance 17 of 1938 November 22, sentence of death which was to suppress heroin was passed on L Man by the divans by penalizing those who Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice

Was

R. E. Lindsell, at the Supreme Court, when the jury, without re- tiring, returned a verdict of guilty.

Considerable interest aroused by legal arguments at the preliminary hearing an October 4 between the 'Magistrate, Mr. R. Ed- wards and Crown Counsel, Mr. John Whyatt, over the question of admitting the public to Court.

Li stabbed Pun Shing in the back

otherwise so busy.. are completely Floyd-Smith, who took deserted "This Siberian cold is months capturing them, is bring- particularly frightful for the num- ing them home with him on the at the Luen Hing Seamen's Board- crous beggars and homeless of the Blue Furinel liner Antenor.. capital city who pour into police stations at night seeking, shelter.

It is hoped that snow will soon fall and banish the cold. Only in Vosges and in the extreme south of the country have snowfalls oc- curred up till now-Transocean. BITTER COLD IN MOSCOW. Moscow, Dec. 20,

Ing House on August 4, following The bag includes five glant an argument over the loss, of a" pandas, some bhurral sheep, a job. snubroze monkey and a collection

The lowest temperature in any large European city was reported

of rare pheasants-Reuter.

DEMONSTRATIONS

IN RANGOON

BUILDING FOR REFUGEES

Bhanghal, Dec. 20.

In view of the difficulty ex- pertenced in securing accommoda- Rangoon, Dec. 20.

tion for Jewish refugees arriving Civil disobedience and demon in Shanghai, the Municipal Coun- from Moscow yesterday, where the strations resulted in students all has agreed to place at the dis thermometer fell to 51 degrees picketting the Becretariat to-day posal of the Committee, which is centigrade below zero. The water but they were eventually dispersed assisting these refugees, a building supply of large sections of the city by two baton charges by the police: leased by the Council as was interrupted through frozen Hundreds of students are re, Chinese pilmary school The and bursting mains. Schools ported to be injured and one side building, which has been empty closed as a result of the extreme of the Secretariat is now cordoned since the outbreak of hostilities, is cold.

by the müitary with fixed bayonets, capable of accommodating about

-Renter.

350 foreign refugees-Reuter.

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(Continued on Back Page)

GUIDE TO THE NEWS

Pare 2-Boccer programmes. Transvaal and M.C.C. draw. Physical training competi- tion. Scottish Cup draw. Page 3 Radio programmes. News about the Services. Page 5-The, cinemas, Cross- word. Diary of local events. Tay Bridge disaster recall- ed.

Page 6-Women's page, New holiday entertainers at Hongkong Hotel

Page Three Bears." Heroin cases. Four robbers sen- tenced.

Fage 8.-The leading article:-

The fisheries "dispute, Page 9-Chamberlain's foreign

policy under fre.

Page 10 Colony's trade" de-

cline:

Pages 11, 12 and 3-Finance

and commerce. Pages 14 & 15.-Shipping news

and. directory.

B. SC. (ENGIN.) IN ABSENTIA Chong Choy Kal

HO, FOOK & CHAN KAI MING ·

*・ SCHOLARSHIP`

E. N. Orlon and Stephen Wong

NG LI HING SCHOLARSHIP E. N. Orloff and Stephen Wong ANDERSON GOLD MEDAL C. C. Petrovaky

H.M.S: GRIMSBY AT

TIENTSIN

Shanghai, Dec, 20. HMS: Grimsby arrived in Tien-

citing to riot.-Reuter.

Office

Japanese Foreign

Is In Quandary Over Fishery Dispute

Vladivostok, December 20.

THE TOKYO FOREIGN OFFICE is in a quandary over the fishery dispute with Soviet Russia and the British and American financial assistance to Chias, according to reports current here.

The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita's reply to London and Washington is to consolidate Japan's hold on the oc cupled ferritory, although it is noted here that his remark is con- sidered to be very mild

More urgent is the fabery ques~| tion, for unless the treaty is re-

newed, Japanese faḥermen in

Soviet waters, such as the Sea of Okhotsk and Kamchatka, will be deprived of their trade on Decem- ber 31.

This issue which has been a

to a

SHANTUNG TOWN RECAPTURED

Slan, Dec. 20. Another town. in Shantung, Changkin, northeast of Tsinan

tsin to-day and moored off the thorn in Boviet-Japanese relations has been recovered by the Chinese British Concession. The Grimsby for years and a cause of occasional was dispatched to Tientaln where crists again came

The town was recaptured by the tension between

climax mobile units under Gen, Shih Yu- British and French Conession au German-Japanese anti-Cominter with the Japanese. The enemy existence of the san following a fierce encounter thorities continues unabated. Reuter...

the Japanese, when the

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 1. 2.7/84. T.T. ON NEW YORK: 29. London Silver Market (Our Own Correspondent).

London, Dec. 20. London silver prices to-day were down 1/16 for Forward and unchanged for Spot: as follows:--

Dee. 19 Dec. 20

Spot..... .20-1/8

Forward.....19-9/16

20-3/8

19-1/2

Pact became known in November, suffered heavy casualties "" and 1930, leading to Russia's refusal to abandoned large quantities of sign the new fishery convention. ammunition during their retreat.

Central News.

Moscow has been blocking the negotiations for the conclusion of

a new agreement with allegations that Japan has violated the Ports- STABBING CASE raouth Treaty under which the fishing rights are

Suffering from stab wounds in granted to Japan.

the back of the head, and neck and in the chest. an unlicensed. A Japanese spokesman in Tokyo hawker, Yeung Hon-fuk, 17, was threatened that renewal of the removed" to hospital yesterday agreement is "most essential for from Stanley Street. The wounds preservation of normal relations are alleged to have been inflicted between Japan and the Bovlet by Bor Tsal-tang. The condition Union and consequently the peace of Yeung is reported to be fairly.. of East Asia."-International.

good.