HONGKONG DAILY "PRESS
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"NO CONFERENCES & NO COMPROMISE": DANZIG AND CORRIDOR ONE QUESTION
· SALVATION Demands For Lebensraum ARMY HIGH COUNCIL
GOODWILL SPIRIT AT MEETING
LONDON. Aug. 17 (Renter)— The Salvation Army High Council, which has spent a day discussing procedure, has not yet reached a point at which the nominations for the election may be made.
An official who had attended every important Army conference in the past twenty years, told Reuter: "We have made good progress and nearly completed the preliminaries. I have never known a Council meeting that was con- 'ducted th such a spirit of good- will."
Important IUG
Will Not Be Abandoned
BERLIN, Aug. 17 (Reuter)-The daily recital of alleged anti-German atrocities in the Corridor con- tinues and the Corridor and Danzig problems are gradually being welded into one single question,
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung," in a typical
· comment," declares “We shall accept no foreign de- finitions of the German lebensraum. We shall not make other countries judges of our vital issues, as they are not only economic issues, but also questions of honour. The Corridor is incompatible with Ger- man honour."
Dr. Goebbels' paper, the "Angriff" says: We do not care a rap about negotiations and we do not dream of abandoning our demands for lebensraum. That is true not only for the problems which must be solved in Europe, but also for our colonial demands.
"Germany proposes to create a true peace in Eu- rope and will not agree to compromises, negotiations or conferences. The Corridor and Danzig are German problems which concern. nobody else and we shall LONDON, Aug. 17 (BWS)-Thé
create here justice and peace, with or against Britain." deliberations of the High Council of the Salvation Army were con- BERLIN, Aug. 17 (Reuter)-| tinued in London yesterday and Herr Hitler discussed the an official statement issued yes latest phases of the European terday afternoon explains that situation yesterday with had been found necessary,
Field-Marshal von Goering view of the importance of the Issue" the election of a new Gen- and Herr Himmler, who call- eral for the Armỳ and constitu- ed at Berchtesgaden to con- tional questions corrected there-gratulate the Reich Fuehrer: with **carefully
explore on the 25th anniversary of many points which have claim his erilistment in the Army as on the consideration of the Coun- a volunteer. cl"
to
3.
.
Well-informed quarters 'here The statement adds: "One of stated yesterday that the meeting the most outstanding features of between Herr Grelser, President
the whole proceedings is the of the Danzig Senate, and M. oneness of purpose and readiness Chodack!. Pollsh Commissioner to view matters from every angle in Danzig, was confined to "techni- by all members, coming as they cal matters and did not touch on do from all parts of the world."
the political angle of the Danzig question, as a whole.
·A SECOND VISIT?
BERCHTESGADEN There is no confirmation here
INTERVIEW
What Hitler Told
Dr. Burckhardt
PARIS, Aug. 17 (Reuter} -According to French diplo- matic circles, Herr ". Hitler, in the interview he had with Dr. Kari Burckhardt in Berch- tesgaden, reminded the League Commissioner of the plan to which he referred Ka his Reichstag speecăi On April 28..
of rumours that Dr. Karl Burck-¦ hardt is to pay a second visit to Herr Hitler.
"No conference and no com- promise" on Danzig was 'the watchword handed out to German. leader-writers yesterday and poll- [tical quarters say that Germany would consider a conference to discuss the technical details of handing back, Danzig, but never a conference to discuss whether it should be handed back.
It is declared that Germany's | honour is at stake and Danzig Imust return without compromise.
ROME COMMENTS ROME, Aug. 17 (Reuter)-Direct negotiations between Germany
ANOTHER PAWN IN
THE GAME?
NEW CHIEF
FOR PUPPET
ARMY!
Reciprocal Mass French Flight Over England
PARIS, Aug 17 (Reuter)-The Arst of the reciprocal mass train- ing flights over England which were evisaged following the three British fights over France in July was carried out by units of heavy bombers during the night.
WANG CHING - WEI This was revealed in an official communique which records that AS COMMANDER! after reaching their objectives the CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (Central) bombers regained their bases this -It is reported that Wang Ching morning the fights lasting be- wel,
tween seven and eight hours. the expelled Kuomintang
Apart from the communique all leader, is negotiating with Lient- General Bikichi Ando, Commander- that is known is that the weather in-Chief of the Japanese Forces was favourable, The Air Ministry in South China, and other Japan-bey and type of planes and the at first declined to give the num- ese army commanders, on the re- organization of all irregular troops bases from where they had taken off or the distances fown, but In the Japanese-"occupied" areas later announced that about 200 In Kwangtung into a new puppet
army,
It will be placed under the com- mand of Wang to fight against the Chinese National troops.
machines participated,
AERIAL "INVASION" .. The aerial invasion" of England fa still progressing.
WANG DENOUNCED
This is revealed in a second AN UNDISCLOSED PLACE IN communique describing the theme NORTH KWANGTUNG, Aug. 17of daylight manoeuvres. in which (Central)-On behalf of the people seven squadrons of bombers were of Kwangtung. the Kwangtung to "attack" many important pro- People's Political Council has issu-vincial towns including Liverpool. Pd a circular telegram, bitterly Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester
Wang denounting
Ching-wei's and Oxford, "peace" move and reaffirming un- The bombers will be preceded by Ainchingly support of China's reconnaissance planes to identify policy of continued resistance. the objectives and study prevailing The telegram declares that un-conditions. These will later join der. the pretext of anti-Commun-the bombers over London where ism, and anti-resistance Wang is all will be engaged by enemy actually betraying his own coun- fighters.
BERLIN, Aug. 17 (Reuter) -Political ircles assert that the visit bere of Count Csaky, Hungary's Foreign Minister, was purely private and rumours that Hungary cently rejected the twenty- two point plan which Ger- many offered her lack con- firmation.
that
re-
try.
Count Csaky is staying at Salzburg until Friday and it is possible that Herr Hitler will
meet him at the Salzburg Festival which Count Csáky, and Dr. Frick visited yester- day evening. TEN
A message from Vienna states that Count Csaky ar- rived at Salzburg at noon and lunched with Dr. Frick and then visited the castle in Fuschl to see Herr von *Rib- bentrop.
are
The people of Kwangtung, who patriotic, intelligent and rational-minded will not be misled by Wang's malicious propaganda, the telegram savs
Anti-German "Terror"
In Silesia
NAZI NEWSPAPERS
GET BUSY
BERLIN, Aug. 17 (Reuter) -Gruesome accounts of anti-; German "terror" which Po-
AIR BLOCKADE land is alleged to have let
OF FAKIR OF IPI
....
"
The communique points out that the exercise will test both light and neavy bomber formations totalling about 200 planes giving equal opportunity for intervention by Anglo-French detector services working in co-operation and Anglo, anti-aircraft defences at- tempting to prevent the advance or the bombers. Anglo-French air co-operation thus dally becomes closer and more efficacious, the communique concludes,
INCIDENT AT LAUNCHING
*
Aircraft Carrier Breaks Away
loose in Upper Silesia fill the front pages of the morning The third of the seven. British newspapers. Tales brought (aircraft-carriers under construction at Belfast. The by refugees over the border was launched are said to have aroused in-Secretary for Air, Bir Kingsley dignation and alarm all over Wood, and Lady Wood few to German Silesia."
Belfast for the launching.
Herr Hitler cn April 28 sald he and Poland, as the only way of
Action to form an air blockade offered Poland ‘a 25 years non-reaching a peaceful solution of the of the latest headquarters of the aggression treaty in return for Danzig problem are advocated in Fakir of Ipl has been taken follow~. According to a German, version The aircraft carrier, named which Danzig was to be restored the press with an unanimity that ing the dropping of usual warning between 900 and 1,000 persons of Formidable, started entering the to the Reich and Germany re-suggests official Inspiration.
leaflets. The Fakir is reported as the German race were arrested water just as Lady Wood reached ceived a route through the Corri- The "Giornale d'Italia" says having arrived on the northern and are said to have been herded the stand and managed to break" dor to East Prussia. "
that Polish independence is not border of Waziristan.
into concentration camps where bottle of wine over her bows. threatened and that the Poles Action has been taken to prevent they were 11-treated and where- The Formidable broke away from have nothing to lose by negotia-him from organising raiding par- the food was uneatäble.
the cradle holding the vessel and tion with Germany, but instead, ties in north Waziristan where the In the German accounts no slipped into the sea on her keel. if they prefer war, they will be situation has appreciably improved reason is suggested for the Polish She miraculously took to the water risking their whole existence and in the past week.—(Reuter). measures which are represented as without mishap.(Reuter).
purely gratuitous mass persecu- tion.
The Fuehrer is also said
have protested Burckhardt against.
to
tq Dr. to Dr.
of the recent Polish noté to the Danzig Senate about the boy-
cott of customs officials, in Danzig.
- Poles.
Wild Rumours
In Chungking
in a general war let them remem-
ber that Italy will do her duty as
agreement,
will but agreement
elements are said to have been
RAJA "ARRESTED
9,672 JAPANESE
KILLED
CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (Central) The Chinese Military Headquar- ters has just announced that dur-
The Chinese war booty included. 1301 horses, 482 rifles, 23 machine- guns, five artillery pieces and 6,928 rounds of ammunition.
In addition, 98 Japanese' tanks
It is asserted here that the a member of the Axis.
A News Agency report from matters discussed between Herr
"The Democratic press speaks of hardly be reached in an atmos- Kattowitz" forecasts stil worse Hitler and Dr. Burckhardt "were conference and compromises,"phere of local friction, incidents (oppression to come. Anti-German above all questions relating to a continues the "paper, but there and press heroics... settlement of local incidents. Drjare rights which need no confer- Hence, Importance is attached given arms su "appalling terror Burckhardt
natural ence and which must be satisfied." here in a preas comment on recent against defenceless. Germans is to being the link between Danzig
LONDON VIEWS
contacts over Danzig to the need be expected." and the
LONDON, Aug. 17 (BWB)-In or keeping from getting rusty the The anti-Polish campaign is [ing 299 engagements on the various diplomatic circles in London, the ordinary machinery of discussion working up along familiar lines fronts from August 1 to 15, & total hope is expressed that the short between the Danzig Senate and towards the stage where Germany of 9,672 Japanese were killed and conversation which took place Polish Government. If that mach- must regard it as no longer toler-105 taken prisoner. yesterday at Danzig between the inery. were working smoothly able and find herself compelled to President of the Senate. Herr again, it would be held as a take action.". Greiser," and the Polish Commis-substantial gain here, where there aidrier in Danzig M. Chodach is ittle disposition at the moment CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (Reuter) may mark the opening of conver-in official quarters to look beyond This morning's Chinese press sations on certain local issues the immediate phase.
The Raja of Hathaura, Kunmar and armoured cars were damaged, gave prominence to reports of the between the Free City and Poland,
Sham Kumar Singh, was arrested 14 war vessels sunk and a consider- alleged tension on the Kowloon such as customs questions, a set- Political and diplomatic corres-on Wednesday on suspicion of hav-able length of railways and high- border, where British and Japanese tlement or which on a common-pondents of newspapers move more ing hired assassins to murder his ways destroyed. troops are facing each other at sense basis would go a considerable quickly and speculation has given young wife. His brother was ar-
Twenty three newspapers and way to relieve tension,
The tendency to postpone, for suggestions in the last twenty-fired at the young Ranee last May news agencies in north Kiangsu considerations of prestige, negotia four hours, of which one or in Lucknow. The assalfants stat have issued a joint statement con tions to secure practical accom-ginating in despatches from the ed at.Court they had been promis- demning the "peace" movement modation on day to day problems Continent is of a Four-Powered a reward by the Baja for the of Wang Ching-wet
murder of his wife—(T.0.), MA || News), A leading article in the "China can benefit no one...
Meeting to discuss the Danzig Times" this morning is entitled,
Fewer the questions of sec- question. It can be safely predicted. "Whither Britain?" It states that ondary importance, which are left that the latter is an idea, which the occupation of Shumchun has cutstanding between the Free City would not commend itself to Brit- no military value except for the and Poland, the fewer are the ish opinion.
Shumchun.
The wildest rumours prevail here, including one alleging that Japanese, troops marching into Kowloon -
are
purpose of preventing vegetables from reaching the British Colony. BRITISH COMPROMISE The paper adds that were it not for the British compromise with regard to the Shanghai Custom. there would have been no Tientsin blockade. If rios for the . Anglo- Japanese Agreement in Tokyo there would have been no threat of a blockade of Hongkong
The paper concludes "If Britain"
still dreams of an amicable settle-
Lesson Of ManichTM
rise to a number of rumours and rested for complicity. Shots were
chances of incidents such as might. In this matter, the "Dally place events beyond the control of responsible men.
Hersia" probably EXDTESSES the unanimous British view, "official and unofficial, when It'rays: "The lesson of Munich' \is "decisivo, There cannot be
another."
. It is félt here that there is now a general understanding that any attempt which ebuld come only from the Ger- man side--to alter the post-j. According to agency reports
tion at Danzig by force means war in which Britain","and France would immediately be involved support of Poland. Recent Contacta
agency
from Dands, it is expected that the Polish Commissioner, who bad a quarter of an hour's talk with the President of the Senate yes terday and later flew to Warsaw to
In these circumstances it would confer with his Governm
ment in Tokyo, then there will be appear to be in the interest of have another talk wit no peace hereafter in the Pacifc all-and supremely in the interests Greiser on his return from Australia to the Indian of the Tree City itself and of probably in the presence Ocean, where the British podaés Poland that stability and con- League High Commission sions lie
fidence should be restored by Burckhardt.
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