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HONGKONG, "MONDAY,

AUGUST 7, 1939.

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PREPARATIONS BY GERMANY

Polish Watchfulness: Troop Mobilization

in

Danzig Senate & Poland's

Customs Question

WARSAW, Aug. 6 (Reuter)-In view of the" con-- centrations of "German troops round southern and western Poland, Polish mobilization is continuing and officers and men are being called up every few days. The mobilization will reach maximum strength to- wards the end of the month.

Germany's military The Kurjer Polski" says: preparations are so intense and on such a large scale, and the situation is so strained, that watchfulness and reactions by Poland and her allies cannot fail to be awakened."

IS BRITAIN "SO HELPLESS" IN FAR EAST?

Was

CHUNGKING, Aus. 6 (Ren- ter)Apprehension regarding British policy towards China following the Anglo-Japanese somewhat agreement allayed by Mr. Chamberlain's statement in the House of Commons which, however, 'I' received here with mixed feelings.

Some

people are pleased with the frank way in which Mr. Chamberlain dealt with the situation in the Far East while others, believe, that no good can be gained from the statement which," they assert, only revealed Britain's relative weakness in the Far East.

Doubt, however, is expressed whether Britain is, in fact, "se helpless." since she has effect tive means other than a pow. erful fleet for checking Japan.

Radical Shift In Bohemia

MOSCOW

MILITARY

MISSIONS

DEPARTURE, FROM.

LONDON

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reaterì-M. Maisky. Soviet Ansbassador to Loadón, shook hands warmly with the leaders of the British · and French Military Missions to Mon: cow. On their arrival at the plat- [form they had an animated con- versation, while waiting for the train to leave.

Admiral Sir Reginald Plunkett- | Emlé-Erle-Drax, head of the British mission, wearing a sprig of white heather and red carnation in his į buttonhole, told Reuter;" WARSAW, Aug. 6 (Reuter) not authorized to say anything.” An official communique and then added with a smile; confirming the Danzig Sen- "When I come back, perhaps." ate's reply to the Polish note states that a reply, added to evening in the liner City of Exeter, the written answer, will be which was flying the red Soviet send at the beginning of next hammer and sickle flag at the week.

The communique adds: Thus the seriousness of the matter will be postponed for the moment.

DEFINITE ANSWER The Polish Government awaits a definite answer to their note in the hope that the Senate having carefully studied the question, will recognize the Justification of the Polish Government's attitude."

It is officially stated that no measures new mobilization, have taken place in Poland since March.

ORDERS CANCELLED

WARSAW.

The missions left Tilbury in the

masthead. The liner will not-take

the usual route through the Kiel

Canal, but will go round the Bal-

cic, adding two days to the normal

journey.

The house painter's ladder. ("Cuy Ogloszen,” Warsaw).

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Price Per Month: $3.00.

COUNTER OFFENSIVE

SUCCESS NORTH OF HANKOW

GUN DUEL

NEAR BIG WAVE BAY"

PIRATE KILLED:

Japanese Operations Held

Up By Bad Weather

In South-East. Shansi

CHUNGKING, Aug. 6 (Reuter)-Chinese successes on several fronts are reported in despatches received here.

"..

The Chinese forces north of Hankow are stated to have launched a counter-offensive to capture Ming- kang on the Peiping-Hankow Railway.

3 CAPTURED One pirate was killed and three were captured in a sen- sational gun duel between a pirate boat and a fishing Junk near Big Wave Bay waters on The Japanese were reported Saturday morning. The fight to have started an offensive occurred when the junk was in this region last week and attempting to secure the re- are now stated to be advan-

TRAGEDY AT tease of another fishing junk cing along the railway with

PICNIC

GIRL STUDENTS MISSING

ONE FOUND DROWNED

A party of young giri students

a picnic with" "light" hearts" "and.

A

which was being held captive. Sinyang as their base.

The latter junk, T20681,

All the Japanese forces

had cargo on board and was which landed recently in sailing when it was confront- Wangmoon, near Macao, are ed by a large fishing junk reported to have been forced with 11 pirates on board. back to their warships. Four of the marauders then boarded the junk.

Ping Fat, master of the other fishing junk, became suspicious at the sight of two junks sailing together.

who resterday morning went on Ping Fat's craft which re- The pirates opened fire on

taliated and

succeeded in shooting dead one of the rob- bers and capturing three.

smiling faces returned home in sorzow and dismay when they lost two of their companjons.

· Pact Negotiations MOSCOW, Aug. 6 (Reuter) It is The giris, 24 in all, were students learnt that Mr. William Strang of the Kit Ying Night School. wil be figing to London, on Mon-

They started out in the morning. day. Afterwards, Su William Seeds for a hike in the hills behind Tai and M. Paul Naggar will continue Hang. After timin" when it began the negotiations with M. Molotov to rain heavily it waardecided to and return journey Competent quarters believe that make the

major differences of view have after proceeding for some distance, been settled, but the main hitch the Headmistress, Miss Chan. Hit- continues to be definition of inving, discovered that two of the direct aggression,

girls, Mak Kwan-tal, aged 16, and Chan Fong-ching, aged 10,' were' missing.

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Issues Narrowed Aug. (Reuter)- An earlier message stated that

A search was immediately under- Following the Polish note the the political issues under discus- taken but as the girls could not be

· PEARL RIVER TO REOPEN TO-DAY CANTON, Aug. 6 (Rea- ter)-It is officially learn- ed that the Pearl River will be reopened to for- eign shipping to-morrow, July 7

Heavy Rains

PEIPING, Aug. 6 (Reuter)—The Japanese offensive aimed at clean- ing up the whole of South-East shansi to the west of Pelping bas been completely bogged by abnor- mally heavy rains, according to travellers from Shans!.

A column numbering at lengt two divisions is stated to have had the greatest difficulty in maintaining its mechanized communications as the whole countryside has been turned into a guarmite, u

As the rains bare continued and Chinese guerilla forces are most active fr that region, it is believed that the Japanese expedition suffered terrifle Losses and will probably be starved out.

JAPAN'S AXIS ALLIANCE PREPARATIONS

ROME, A. 8. (Reuter)-The only comment the Italian press has hitherto made on the 'meeting of“the Japanese Am- bassadors at the Villa Deste appears in the "Coretere „Padant,” which declares that the actual negotiations for Japan's adherence to the Axis Military Alliance"will only bes rin when the Japanese Military Mission disembarks at Naples on Aug. 28.

The paper adds that the mission will visit Rome, Nur- emburg and Berlin and WID return to Bome in October

"It is oppertane to remem- ber that the triumphal journey of General – Franes to Rome and Bern will take place-st about the same time,” con- cludes th

the paper (SEE ALSO PAGE 9).

Town Recaptured Briton Hurt

...

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STAN, Aug. 6 (Central) The Chinese are victorious in south- eastern Shans!..

Changchih (Luan), a strategic. town, has been recaptured by them, while Tsincheng at the foot

In Bombing

Danzig Senate has withdrawn the ston at Moscow between Britain, located, the Headmistress decided SHANGHAI PRESS of the Talhang Mountain, is be- A.P.C. PROPERTY

order to the Polish Customs of France and the Soviet have so to report the matter to the Bay cials of the Free State informing narrowed down that the services View Police Station. them that their services would not be required after midnight, it was learned from oticial quarters here.

The

the note requested Senate to withdraw the order. and to answer the previous Polish note on the whole ques- tion of customs guards in a shurt time.

of Mr. William Strang, chief of the

A police search party sent out central department of the Foreign returned with the sad news that Office, who went to Russia to as a 16-year-old girl had been found sist the Ambassador, Sir William drowned in the nullah east of the Seeds, are no longer necessary Haw Par Maaston. She had ap-

The Senate replied by" telephone REICH NAZIS OUST

yesterday morning stating that "SAVED" SUDETENS the order to the Polish customs would not be applied and that the LONDON, Aug. 6 (Router)-A Senate would answer the Polish radical change in German methods note on the general questions of in Bohemia and Moravia is in- Customs officials during the com- dicated by the arrest of a numbering week. - of prominent Sudeten Germans, states the "Sunday Times" Prague' correspondent.

Grave charges have been pre- ferred against some of the arrest- ed men.

It is pointed out that the. whole question of the Polish Customs Guards has thus been left open for decision by Berlin during the coming week..

POLISH C.-IN-C. WARSAW, Aug. 8 (Reuter)

there. Mr.

UP IN ARMS

aleged.

HIT IN ICHANG In South Honan

SHANGHAL, Aug 6 (Reuter)-~- LOYANG, Aug. 6" (Central)-Fifteen light Japanese bombers After the recapture of Mingklang raided. Ichang this morning on the Peiping-Hankow Railway Several bombs fell in the Asiatic Chinese are chasing the Japanese close to British shipping in the 24 miles north of Sinyang, the Petroleum Company's compound

fleeing

river. One Briton was slightly

PROTEST AGAINST. CONTRACT AWARD parently missed her footing, and

TO N.C.D. NEWS

toward Changtalkwan, Strang accordingly is re-slipped and was washed for sume

south of Mingklang. turning to London next week.

distance by the swollen torrent. SHANGHAI Aug 6 (Reuter)--

Under Chinese pressure Japan injured. Discussions In Moscow

Clothing identified as belonging Tie, management of the “Shanghal Fere units at Hwalhotlen, southeast Rear-Admiral R. Vesey Halt has

protested to MOSCOW, Aug 6 "Reuter) to the younger girl was found be-Times "China, Press," "Evening of Mingxiang, and Bianchiantier, strongly

Admirat Potemkin to-day received Sir Wil-side the body. The child was still Past and Mercury "East Asia west of Singang, have also re Oikawa, Japanese C.-in-C. and has pointed out that the locality lam Seeds and M. Naggiar to dismissing up to a late hour last Lloyd," Slovo Printing Company treated. E NON HA MER

have Rehabilitation work has already bombed contains no military cuss the programme for the re-night and it was believed that and the Tairiku. Shimpo" ception of the British and French she also had met with misfortune. sent a vehement protest to the been. begun in Mingklang by the objectives and is regarded as a Le missions...

Shanghai Municipal Council against Chinese authorities.. No development in the negotia French Premier, M. Daladier, the award of a contract for print- tions are expected, pending Mr. spent the week-end outside Paris.ing and distributing the "Muni- William Strang's personal report It is possible according to "Matin" cipal Gazette," official organ of to London on the situation,

that the Premier will remain out the Council, to the British-owned The military conversations are of town for a short holiday till the "North China Daily News." middle of the week.-T.0.) "/

expected to overshadow the ponti- cal negotiations for the time being and it is probable that no decisive

reached before the military talks

It has long been known that Sudeten Germans and Reich Get-Marshal Smigly-Rydz, the Polish agreement on the pact will be mans holding positions of authority Commander-in-Chief, accompanied

In the Protectorate differ about by the War Minister and thee well under way...":! the best ways of appeasing the Inspector of the Ariny, will leave Czecha

to-night for Cracow for the cele-

It is rumoured that the Protector brations of the 25th anniversary of Bohemia and Moravia. Baron of the march out of the city of Von Neurath who has remained. Pilsudski's first legion.

Relays of runners, numbering very much in the background will play a more prominent role in 12,000, from fourteen points in future and that about ten impor-Poland, are converging on Cracow tant Reich, German officials will where they will throw lighted

torches into a huge bonfire. shortly arrive in Prague to replace To-morrow, Marshal Smigly.

Sudeten Germans in office,

Naval Dry

Dock For

Australia

LONDON, Aug, 8 (Reuter)—The, Rydz will be officially welcomed construction of a naval dry dock, and will make a speech in which capable of taking the largest ADMIRAL YARNELL he is expected to stress Polish battleship afloat. will soon be de

national spirit and Poland's place cided by the Australian Cabinet, TOKYO, Aug. 6 (Reuter)-Ad-In Europe. He will afterwards states the Sunday Times" Sydney mira Harry E. Yarnell, who was take the salute at the march past correspondent. At present Sydney recently succeeded by Admiral of Pilsudski's old legionaries: is the most favoured site thouga

Thomas C. Hart as. Commander- In-Chief of the US. Asiatic Fient. left Yokohama to-day for the United States.

other locations are being consi- dered

Strategically, Albany in West

„ON, AUGUST 14? LONDON, Aug. 5. (Reuter)— Orders have been given in Prague that all roads under construction Australia, is favoured because it is or repair which lead to the Polish a southernly location which makes

The Commander-in-Chief of the frontier must be completed and it less liable to attack German Army, General Walther ready for use on August 14, accord-It is approximately the same dis- Von Brauchitsch, will for the first ing to the Prague correspondent of tance steaming from Singapore sa time, address, armament workers the "Dally Telegraph.***,

Sydney and the route is far less when he visits one of Germany's Reliable authorities state that able to attack than the eastern largest armament factories, Rhein- 150,000 German troops, many of seaboard. It also has the advan- metall Works in Dusseldorf on them fully mechanised, are con- take of being nearer the Trin- Thursday The speech will be centrated at Machrischestrau, near-comalee and gimontown bases than broadcast (inc the Folkh frontier.

Bydney.

On Other Pages

PAGE 2 Lawn Bowls resulta US. basebaП. Lo Tak Kuen Cup. PAGE 3-Radio programmes. Medical aid for Chinese. The Bervices PAGE 5 Cinemas Crossword

puzzle. Coming events. -- PAGE 8 Cathedral wedding, 'Holland's new baby princess7:

Newsettes, Menu,

v PAGE T-Water police extor- tion case. EK message to students congress. New. Faculty of Science at Uni veraity. Happy Valley fatal-

PACE 8 Leading article: An Not Well With Japan, Hello and goodbye

PAGE 10 Home cricket. Ex.. cellent racing at first cycling heats,

PAGE 11 Generals as provin-

cial governors in: China. PAGES 12 and 13-Finance

and commerce

PAGES 14 and 16-Shipping

news and directory

The protest says the award con- fers upon the "North China Daily |News" valuable competitive advan

tage both as regards advertising and circulation and the practica 18 80. grossly unfair as to warrant the fullest reconsideration.

The signatories of the protest urge the Council to take action to secure the distribution of the Municipal Gazette" by methods other than through the circulation of the North China Daily News"

Railway Across North China

TOKYO, Ang: 8" (Renter)As first step towards "realization of

fugee area.

CHINA'S GOLD PRODUCTION INCREASE: $28,000,000 WORTH OF PURCHASES

months CHUNGKING, August 6 (Central)During the from Jahe 1928 to May 1939, Lour Chines vernme banks acting s se armite of the national-treasury, bought up 143,000 ounces of pure gold from private producers in various parts of Free China

Averaging $200 an ounce the purchases involved a trans tion of over $28,800,000 Chinese currency. This amount of goo; earmarked 1,100,000 ounces within exclusively to bolster the specle three years, reserve behind the Chinese yuan, Mr. Ha, who was traine by no means represents China's Massachusetts Institute total output of precious metal dur-nology and fater in the ing the period. Experts estimate of Pittsburg, gives the that somewhere between 37,000 and 47,000 ounces all remain in private hands

SIGNIFICANT INCREASE

.... The production of from, 180,000

the so-called anti-Comateid route to 190,000 ounces su gord m 1 between Tokyo and Berlin, a rail months marks a significant in- way line across North China be crease in China's output. For many tween Tangku, and. Tatung will be years, the annual production averaged 130,000 ounces only. The |built in the autumn

The line, which will be about upward trend is traceable to the Get More Gold" movement in 360 miles long will be built by the wartime China

ning.

Ezec

000

North China Transport Co, in contro operation with the Japanese Ball- Mr. Hu Po-yuad,ed Chi-Bong

ded that," BU way Ministry and will be chiefly nose used for the transport of coal from given the Tatung cosmines and iron machinery

from the Kalgan iron mines,

prodi

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gold Fundin

Taized Tolchina's

annual gold each province, it

380,000 260,000 ɑnace

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