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NEW JAPANESE

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1939.

NATIONAL

PARTY WILL BE

BE CREATED

Demand For Energetic TECHNICAL

Prosecution Of War

Entirely Independent Of Foreign Influence

TOKYO, FEBRUARY 7 (TRANSOCEAN)—A NEW JAPANESE NATIONAL PARTY WILL, IT IS STATED IN POLITICAL CIRCLES, SHORTLY BE CREATED IN CONNECTION WITH THE PLANNED REORGANISA- TION OF PARTY LIFE IN JAPAN BY FUSION OF THE SMALLER NATIONAL GROUPS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THE NEW PARTY, IT IS AND ADDED, WILL COMPRISE THE TOHO-KAI

THE KOKUMIN DOMEI GROUPS, AS WELL AS GREATER PART OF THE SHAKAITAISHUTO GROUP,' THE LEADER OF THE NEW PARTY WILL BE SEIGO NAKANO WHO HAS HITHERTO LED THE TOHO-KAI GROUP. HE WILL BE ASSISTED BY THE" LEADERS OF THE TWO OTHER ABOVE MENTIONED GROUPS, NAMELY, ADACHI AND ABE..

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JAPANESE AND THIRD-PARTY SHIPPING

Questions In Commons

The

LONDON, Feb. 7 (Reuter)-

Japanese have allered that they are conducting mill- tary operations which would be impeded by the movement of third-party ships, replied Mr. R. A. Butler in the House of Commons yesterday, when acked by Commander Marsden under what rule of International law the Japanese were preventing British vessels using the Pearl River.

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Three deputies, Toyama, Tokutomi and Miyako, will act as advisers to the leaders. It is expected that the new Party will count between 60 and 67 members in the. House of Representatives..

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The programme of the new party of concentration" said, in political circles.to be sunned up in the words,

renovation of Japan."

The Party will seek to promote a new popular movement and ad-

vocate national and social reforms while at the same time demanding energetic prosecution of the war in China alike by military and dipio- matic means and the establish ment of a new order in the Far Eas; under the leadership of Japan It is stressed that the Party is entirely independent of any foreign influence and relies for support mainly or national-minded work- ers and peasants. Selgo Nakano, who is 53 years of age, was former ly a journalist and a member of

the Minselto Party.

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 1s. 2.13/15a." T.T. ON NEW YORK: 28.7/8 London Silver Market (Our Own Correspondent) w London, Feb. 7.

POSITION OF · REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT

LONDON, Feb. 7 (Reute:)-It is understood that the technical position of the continued exis- tence of the Spanish Republican Government occupies the attention of British official circles as it can- not definitely be said.whether de facto the Republican Government still exists.

The British attitude towards re- cognition of Franco is that this is Impossible until foreign troops have left Spain. It is believed in London. that Franco intends to Occupy Minorca with Spanish not

CHIANG'S ORDER FOR ARMY

ENLISTMENT

CHUNGKING, February (Reuter) All able- bodied members of fami- lles of the Government and Kuomintang officials are urged by General- issimo Chiang Kai-shek to enlist in the Chinese Army in order to set an example for the populace, according to a circular order issued by the Celi- tral Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.

The Generalissimo states, "It is the duty of citizens to join the army to defend their country but since the enforce- ment of the conscription sys- tem hitherto only pensants have enlisted and "very few persons belonging to families in the Government and Party officials have 'responded."

Italian troops after negotiation CABARET

with the Republican in which the British are willing to act as in termediaries,

ROME DEFENCE

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COUNCIL IN SESSION

HOME, Feb. 7 (T/Ocean)--- The Italian Supreme Defence Council, with Signor. Mussolint presiding, met yesterday. In view of the present Interna- tional situation, Italian poll- tient circles attach consider- able importance to the present deliberations.

GIRL ENDS

OWN LIFE Driven To Despair, Takes Opium

Driven to despair by liness and meagre earnings, a pretty young dancing girl of the Emporium Ballroom, named You Mei-mel, ended her life by swallowing an overdose of oplum late on Saturday night. The girl did ng report for work at the Ballroom en that evenirig, She left No. 84, Village Road,

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CANDID CAMERA AT MACAO RACES | BURMA TO HAVE

GROUP OF spectators photographed at the Macao Race meet- Ing on Sunday. (Photo by Leica),

SEVEN THOUSAND

OWN NATIONAL

FLAG

LONDON, Feb. 7 (T/Ocean)— Burma is to have its own national faz and to take its place as an autemuineus State within the 'Bri- tish Commonwealth of Nations, a position which had been formally granted to it after the separation from India in 1937.

The new flag shows on a blue field the Union Jack in the top "of the left corner and on the right halt, a peacock in natural colours, set in a circle of gold. The pea- cock design taken from · silver coing issued in the year 1852 dur- ing the reign of King Mindon.

· Slace then it has come to be re- garded as the national emblem of Burma.

JAPANESE

-CASUALTIES IN TEN DAYS

PEARL RIVER REOPENING

ON FEBRUARY 10 CANTON, Feb. 7 (Reuter)-It is reliably learned that the Pearl River restriction will be lifted on February 10 when the US.8. Min- danao and Argus will leave for Hongkong and the Macao service will be resumed.

EXPLOSIONS IN ELECTRICAL WORKS

Persistent Attacks Made By Guerillas In Shansi

SHANGHAI, Feb. 7 (Int'l)-Chinese reports state that persistent guerilla attacks launched from moun- tain bases in south Shansi province, took a toll of 7,000 Japanese casualties during the past ten days. The guerillas went into action in the Chungtiau mountains behind the Japanese lines.

Chinese irregulars ambush-1

ed the Japanese operating in

the Kuling mountain sector, BODY FOUND ON LONDON.. « Feb 7 (T/Ocean-killing about 1,000 of the Happy Valley..where the girls of Although explosions in electrical enemy and capturing me-

ROADWAY The Council Includes, besides 11 the Emporium, Cathay and Ma-works in Stepney district this mor-

chanized war equipment. Duce, all Italian marshals, under-jestic cabarets live, about 7 p.m. ning, which caused great excite secretaries of the three defence and returned three hours later,

When other dancing girls Ministries, the Crown Prince, the

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The Chinese said that the

ment among the inhabitants, are not believed to be due to bombs, guerillas operating throughout the Prince of Piedmont in his capacity turned from work some time after 1

the possibility is not excluded that provinces, bordering on the Yang- as Inspector General of Infantry, on Sunday morning they they were the work of members of tze River, to the east of Hankow and the Chief of the General Stair discovered Yu in torment in her

the Irish Republican Army. Poitee" increased their activities over the of Militia. General Russo.

TOGM, A tumbler on a table con-

discovered a large quantity of week-end taking a heavy toll frem tained the remains of the drug. munitions and explosives In among the Japanese.

An ambulance was immediately house inhabited by Irish. summoned and Yiu was taken to result of other domiciliary searches It is learned from well-informed the Queen Mary Hospital, where two suspicious persons were arrest circles here that the Foreign Min-she later succumbed to the effects ed during the night. ister. Count Ciano, will arrive in of the drug. Warsaw on an official visit on It is learned that the quantity of oplum taken was sufficient to kill 11 adults.

CIANO GOING

WARSAW

February 25,

After his visit to Poland. Count Clano w proceed to Berlin be- fore returning to Rome..

KING LEOPOLD AT BAPTISM STOCKHOLM, Feb 7 (T/Ocean) London silver prices to-day were--King Leopold of Belgium is ex- pected to arrive here to-day to at- whether the Government proposed up 1/16 as follows:-

tend the baptism of the first child of Prince Carl Bernadotte, brother of the late Queen of Belgium. -

Asked by Mr. Arthur Henderson

to make any response to the re- quest of the Chinese Government

for assistance, Mr. Butler declared that certain Chinese proposals for economic assistance were under consderation, but he was unable to make a detailed statement at present.

YANGTZE BLOCKADE Asked by Commander Marsden whether he had received aný statement from the Japanese Government on the question of the re-opening of the Yangtze River, Mr. Butter aald that no statement had been received sub- sequent to the note of November 14 last.

Further evidence ot Japanese trading on the Yangtze had been communicated to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs by the British Ambassador to Tokyo on January 13.

Mr. A. V. Alexander (Lab.); Is the British Government acquiesc. ing in the policy of holding up

British shipping?

Mr. Butler: No.

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Forward

Feb. 6 Feb. 7 -20-1/18 20-1/8

19-3/4 19-13/18

"You Are A Traitor"-Note Pinned On Puppet's Body

TWO MORE ASSASSINATIONS IN

SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT

SHANGHAI, FEB. 7 (REUTER)-LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER THE MURDER yesterday of Chien Hwa, a Chinese journalist with Japanese affiliations, two further assassinations occurred in the International Settlement this morning both evidently also committed by anti-Japanese terrorists.

YUNNAN-BURMA RAILWAY

The victims were Chow Chi-tang, aged 37, who is described as "coun- sellor of the ministry of finance " of the so-called reformed govern- ment of Nanking; and Koo Ping- CHUNGKING, Feb. 7 (Reuter) tsung, aged 40, whose connections The engineering department of the are not yet established "but who is Yunnan-Burma Railway published suspected of having beeri a pro- announcements in this morning's | Japanese agent newspapers calling for tenders for Chow "Chi-tong was going to the construction of tunnels and office in a rickshaw when a gun- bridges on the new railway.

man shot him. He then went over All tenders are to be submitted to make sure that the, victim was SIAN, Feb. 7 (Central)-A dele-to the Kunming office of the rail- dead and pinned a note on the gation of the Indian National way before February 15.

body reading, "You are a traitor." Congress arrived, here on Sunday

This is the first public indica- Koo Ping-tsung was shot dead in

INDIAN DELEGATION ARRIVES IN SIAN

night. Elaborate preparations are tion that construction work on a telephone booth in a restaurant. belog made by the public bodies the much-discussed Yunnan-Bur-In both instances the assassins here to welcome them.

ma Railway has already started. escaped.

JAPANESE PLANE

SHOT DOWN NANCHANG, Feb. 7 (Central)--A Japanese plane was shot down and wrecked by a shot fom the rifle of a Chinese sentinel at Tungstang, 50 miles east of Nanchang, early this morning.

The ill-fated Japanese machine was flying at a low altitude over the Chinese postions outside Tung- stang. A kentinel took im with his dine and fired a shot, the bul- let piercing a vulnerable part of the chama and, causing the ma- thine to hurtle to the ground.

The pilot balled out in his "parachute. and was seen to fee towards the direction of the Po- yang Lake.

GUIDE TO THE NEWS

PAGE 2.-Rugby football. An- nual Race meeting handicaps. Kowloon golf results. Inter- Badminton. Dort football. Shanghai tennis players win. PAGE 3.—The Services. 'Radio

programmes.

PAGE 5. The cinemas. Cross- word puzzle. Diary of local events:

PAGE 8.-Women's 'page, Union

Church wedding.

PAGE 7,—Rotary tiffin speech. T. E. scourge in Colony. Re- patriation of riefugee far- mers.

PAGE 8-Leading anticlé Un-

scrupulous. China's

new

army in training. PAGES 11, 12 and 13-Finance

and commerce. PAGES 14 and 15-Shipping

news and directory. PAGE 16,-Shanghai Interport

Rugby team.

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A recent tour of the river brought reports from numerous missionary interests that the Chinese guerillas are active along the valley.

Conference

Ever Held: Arabs Will Not Sit With The Jews

PREMIER RECEIVES DELEGATES

IN SEPARATE ROOMS

LONDON, Feb. 7 (Renter) TWO CEREMONIES WERE NECESSARY at the opening of the Palestine Conference at St. James's Palace the Prime Minister. Mr." Chamberlain,” fint ad* dressing the representatives of the Palestine Arabs and neigh- bouring Stales. He later will address the Jews. This is because the Arabs do not recpmise the Jewish Agency. Colonial Office. officials were trying up to Z a.m. to reconcile the differences of the Arabs there being a possibility that while the feud remained. ansettled the whole of the Arabs, as well as the representatives of Egypt, Irak. Baudi Arabla, Trans Jordan and Yemen would re- fuse to attend the opening ceremony if the Defence Party mem- bers were present.

Believed. Victim Of Traffic Mishap

FRACTURED SKULL

The body of a Chinese, later Identified as Cheung Yip-wing, aged 21, was found 'lying out- side No. 446, Lockhart Road shortly after 6 am. yesterday, The police belleve that Cheung was the victim of a traffic acel- deat; but state that no reports of this nature had been received. ·

Cheung Yip-wing had been in the employ of the Hongkong Tram- way Co., Ltd, as a motor lorry driver for about six years.

Fis fekis said that it was his duty to, drive some workmen or engineers to inspect the electric wire along the tramlines, and that his usual duty was on day shift with an ocen - sional period of night work which commenced about 1 am, shortly after the tram cars had gone back- to the depot,"

RETURNED TO DEPOT

It appears that the deceased storted his work at the usual time yesterday morning and, according to workmen, he had Anished his rounds and "returned to the depot. shortly after 4 am. when he went to sleep in front of his motor lorry,"

He was last seen about an hour later when he got up and walked in the direction of Lockhart Road

Russell Street near the tram depot. which was away, from his house in

Mr. Chamberlain, addressing the It was one of the strangest con Arabs at the opening of the Pales-tetences ever held. The greatest care

When discovered by some paj-ˆ tine Conference this morning said, had been taken to keep the dele- "My policy is one of peace and you gates apart the Jewish representa-sers-by yesterday morning deceas will be aware that my particular tires being received separately ed was lying on his back with both method of approach to peace is later in the morning in the ban-shoes several feet away from the through, understanding and the questing room on the other side of body which was nearly 10 feet

from the pavement. first essential step to understand the picture gallery.

Detective-Inspector W. N. Dar- kin made investigations and, ac- cording to him, it was undoubtedly

This was due to the Arabs de- elining to sit with the Jews.

DE. WEIZMANN'S REPLY"

ing is personal contact. It is the task of statesmanship, when faced by what may appear to be a dead" lock between two peoples, to achieve a compromise on the basis. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President a trafic accident. Post mortem of justice. This is the task before of the Engilsh Zionist Federation, examination revealed that decens- us-difficult, no doubt, but surely replying to the Premier said, Leted had a fractured skull, a broken not beyond the capacity of our us concentrate on the realities of left arm and left wrist, united powers,

FAMOUS ROOM

the present situation giving due

INJURED IN FACE weight to all essential views and radeavouring to appreciate each A Chinese man, who was cross- The Arab delegates, comprising other's point of view.

ing Hennessy Road with a load those representing the Mufti Party "In this Hes, the best hope or of water pipes on his shoulder, and States surrounding Palestine, achieving à settlement to our pro-was sent to the Queen Mary

which will had been received by Mr. Cham-Bem

provide the Fospital suffering from facial-in- berlain in the famous Queen Anne's foundation on which mutual un-juries sustained when one end of -- drawing room leading to the pic-derstandirigmay grow and peace the pipes came tnto contact

with a car. ture gallery where the talks began. in Palestine be secured."