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"Hangkong Daily Press-Nov. 21, 1939.

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IMPORTANT CHANGES IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT: CHIANG TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE YUAN

CHUNGKING, NOV. 20 (CENTRAL)—AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE THE 5TH KUOMINTANG CENTRAL EXECUTIVE SIXTH PLENARY SESSION OF COMMITTEE HELD THIS MORNING UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF GENERAL- ISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK, A PARTIAL REORGANISATION OF THE CENTRAL KUOMINTANG AND EXECUTIVE YUAN WAS EFFECTED.

IT WAS SUGGESTED BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE C.E.C. SESSION THAT GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK BE ELECTED CONCURRENTLY AS PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE YUAN AND DR. H. H. KUNG AS VICE-PRESIDENT, IN SUCCES- SION TO GENERAL CHANG CHUN.

Mr. Ting Chao-wu has been named Vice-Chairman of the Overseas Affairs Com-. mission to succeed Mr. Chou Chi-kang, who has been appointed as Vice-Director of the Overseas Board of the Kuomintang. There were no other changes in the Government.

Regarding Party affairs it was decided to include the presidents of the five Yuan in the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Com- mittee. The committee will now be composed of General-. issimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chu Cheng, Sun Fo, Tai Chi-tao, Yu Yu-jen, Wang Fa-chin, Ting Wei-fen, Tsou Lu, H. H Kung, Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan, Chen Kuo-fu, Li Wen-fan, Ho Ying-chin, Pai Chung-hsi, Chen Chi-tang, Chen Shu-jen, Chang Li- sheng, Wang Chuan-sheng and Teng Chia-yen.

Three New Ministries

CHUNGKING, NOV. 20 (REUTER)—IT IS LEARNED THAT A SUGGESTION WAS MADE BEFORE THE SIXTH PLENARY SESSION of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, which is closing today, to create three new ministries and to change. the status of the National Public Health Bureau.

The three new ministries will be the Ministry of Fores- try, Land and Water Conservancy," Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Social Affairs.

The National Public Health. Bureau, which hitherto has been under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, will be hereafter directly un- der the jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan, in other -words resembling the status

of a new ministry.

Forestry and Land was previous- ly under the Ministry of Economic Affairs which, with the creation of the new ministry, will only be in charge of work connected with labour and mines, while all the work connected with the Yellow, Yangtze and Hwai Rivers Com- missions, will be under the new Ministry,

CHIANG KAI-SHEK

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The new Central Party - Head- quarters will be as follows: Mr. Yeh Chu-tsang, Sceretary-General; Mr. Kan Nai-kwang. Deputy Secre- tary-General; Dr. Chu Chia-hus, Director, Organisation Board; Messrs. Wu Kal-hsien and Tseng Yang-fu, Deputy Directors.

Dr. Wang Shih-chieh was named Director of the Central Publicity Board with Mr. Hollington K. Tang and Mr. Pan Kung-chan as Deputy Directors.

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TERRORISM IS FURTHER PROOF OF GERMAN INCAPACITY FOR

RULING ALIEN

ALIEN RACES Czech People Openly Show Repugnance To Their Oppressors

China's new great wall is built of the strong bodies of her Here sturdy Kwangst warriors are seen marching to the Kwangtong prder to repulse the Japanese attack from Pakhoi..

sons.

TRAITORS

AT ODDS

TWO PLANES

COLLIDE: SIX KILLED

n.ver.

LONDON, NOV. 20 (BRITISH WIRELESS) — REPORTS OF THE WEEK-END TERRORISM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA ARE THE SUBJECT OF MUCH COMMENT IN THE PRESS. The Times says that although Prague has become a forbidden city to the outside world "It is certain that the Czech people, bitterly resenting the tryanny which they suffer under police rule of the Nazis, have once more allowed their feelings to get the better of prudence and have openly shown their repugnance to the oppressors.".

After reviewing the German efforts to suppress and mini- mise news of the revolt and contrasting these with Buda- pest reports, the paper "says. its clear that "the tormented Czech people still place the love of liberty before all other sentiments and are suffering ferocious punishment at thei hands of the German mas- ters."

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Placing responsibility shoulders of the "brutal local ad- ministration." The Times suggests the present situation" is further proof of German incapacity for ruling alien races. Of the German offcial explanation that the dis- orders were caused by "a group of intellectuals acting under foreign inspiration, The Tines says the Czech national spirit has doubtless drawn sustenarice from knowledge of the Franco-British war aims. from the existence of a fighting Czech Legion and the Paris forma- tion of a National Czech Com- mittee but the main reason is the evidence before their own eyes of

"NOT WORTH LIVING"

STOKER

P.O. FALLS

60 FEET

TO DEATH

Naval Yard Tragedy

While walking on the edge

of the dry dock la H; M, Naral· Dockyard early yesterday moralar, Stoker Petty Officer - William Long, of IL M. 5. Dar- ban, slipped and tell headlong on to the hard, dry concrete surface 60 feet below.

The mishap was seen by other "A militarized regime that does Naval men who hurried to the ald not understand liberty is, in fact, of the failea sallor. He was pick- trying to crush a people for whom fed up in an unconscious conditions life. without liberty, has become and rushed off to the Naval Hos- pital where he died two bourE Continued on Page 7

later, at 7.40 a.m., of multiple in- juries sustained in the fal

HSIN MIN HUL AND

SYDNEY, Nov, 20 (Reuter)-x the results of Nazi rule. Mr. Ku Cheng-kang was 20 PSEUDO-KUOMINTANG persons were killed when two Though the personnel of the new

pointed Director of the "Social

planes collided 500 feet above over ministries have not yet been' de-

The "extent of the friction bethe Sydney aerodrome. Welfare Board, and Messrs. Wang cided, it is learned that Mr. Chen

Ping-chun and Hung Lan-ju as tween the contending Chinese

One of the planes landed on Li traitors, Kuo-fu, Chairman of the Hwal

Wang Ching-wel and

got course and the other in smuggling particularly of Japan- Deputy Directors, River Conservancy Commission.

General Wu Te-chen, former Wang Keh-men, and the Japanese will be made the new Minister of ese goods into Free China and also Forestry, Land and River Conser- of work in connexion with the con- Civil Governor of Kwangtung, was Groups that stand behind them in

trol of commodity prices.

named Director of the Overseas revealed in the following inspired It is reported that a new Depart- Board and Mr. Hsiao Chi-shan and "interpretation" published by the MINISTRY OF TRADE

ment of Highways may be created Mr. Chou Chi-kang Deputy Direc"Peking Chronicle"

organ in Peiving. The Ministry of Trade is an ex-to be separate from the Ministry tara... pansion of the work of the pre-of Communications, but this is not The CE.C. session formally ad-

yet, decided.

vancy.

sent Foreign Trade Commission under the Ministry of Finance. The new Ministry of Trade will re- semble a board of trade in other countries in charge of import and export. The Trade Commission may become the new Ministry of Trade.

The Ministry of Social Affairs will be in charge of prevention of

Survival of Rigours Of War

VAST SCHEME BY ECONOMIST ·

journed this afternoon.

a Japanese

GUIDING PRINCIPLE

"Though the new central régime

Ching-wel is to be formed with the "San Mh Chu Yi" or Three

CHINESE HOLDING OUT IN under organization by Mr. Wang

YAMCHOW: L'ILL IN NORTH People's Principles of Dr. Sun

KIANGSI OVER WEEK-END

Yat-sen as its basic background, the Fisin Min Principles will con- tinue to be the guiding principle

KWEILIN; Nov. 20 (Central) -Week-end reports re- of North China, according to res- ceived at the military headquarters here declared that the ponsible authorities of the Hsin

Min Hai war situation on the Yamchow-Fongshing sector has "been

"With`Mr. "Wang Keh-min's as- stabilized.

and nearby points are estimated at 4,500.

Hui will commence a fundamental

organization. so that it will become

a strong political party,

Japanese Cross Border Into Kwangsi Province

Chinese High Command Is Confident Of Ability To

Meet Enemy Attack

Petty Officer Long is a native of Portsmouth and a married man and his wife, who is in England, was immediately noted of the tragedy by cable,

The funeral will take place from the Naval Hospital at 10 am, "to- day."

BOXER INDEMNITY FUND STUDENTS TO REMAIN IN CHINA

· CHUNGKING, Nov. 20 (Central)

CHUNGKING, Nov. 20 (Renter)-While the latest. Chi-Twenty four Chinese students, chosen by competitive advancing Japanese forces as within striking distance of

tration of the Bino-British · Boxer

-in

nese field dispatches from Kwangsi place the northward who were

examinations sponsored by the In addition to stubborn Chinese resistance, fog and sumption of the Presidency at the drizzling rain deterred the Japanese northward advance, end of this month, the Hain Min Nanning, strategie city in Southern Kwangsi, on the high. Board of Trustees for the Adminis- The total Japanese landing forces at Yamchow, Fongshing. In order to augment its way to French Indo-China, Chinese military authorities indemnity Fund for advanced emphasise that this is only to be expected, since Nanning studies in England, will tem-

porarily do practical work Severe fighting is raging at Japanese planes yesterday after-

is only 100 miles from Pakhoi. several small villages imme-noon. Many explosives and incen-

"As the Hain Min principles have

After the occupation offing the Sixth Plenary Session of China until next year when they diately north of Yamchow diaries were dumped on the city.

already made a deep impression Fancheng and Chinhsien, the the Central Executive Committee will be sent abroad, it is learned.

They were originally scheduled and Fongshing, including Ta-causing unascertained damage.

among the masses in North China Japanese. forces advanced of the Kuomintang in Chungking.

to sail for England in September LONDON, Nov. 20 (Havas)-The tsehu, Wongwutun, Pingngan- STUSHUI, Nov. 20 (Central) and are more adaptable to the northward from Chinhsten, on famous economist, Mr. J. M tu and Yentseping, where the situation on the North Kiangsi conservatism of the people, a re- the morning of November 18, KUNMING, NOV. 20 (Intl)-A but were forced to postpone their

defenders are holding out

Hanoi dispatch stated that large departure owing to the outbreak of Keynes, elaborated On a vast

front during the week-end con- version to the Hain Min Principles in several columns. scheme providing for compulsory against. fierce Japanese on- tinued to be quiet. In the vicinity it is feared may result in confusion

numbers of French Foreign Legion war in Europe. savings system to enable British slaughts.... economy to survive the rigours of To war and to avoid after-war de- Japanese pression.

the

IN NORTH KIANGSI

of Wuning, the opposing forces and cause friction." of Yamehow hold their respective lines at Cha-

lost

heavily ping, west of Wuning, while at FongFenghsin and Chingan, the Japan- struggle ese have strengthened their gar- rison in the face of Chinese artil-

of

west forces In the vicinity He stated that such a scheme shing in a bitter would prevent violent rise in on November 17. In the duel the prices

thereby precluding the Chinese coastal positions at Lallery barrages.

tousui were pulverised by severe Japanese naval bombardments,

tragic usual descents after war. Compulsory, savings should

be blocked for the duration of

the war but would be released

upon the return to peace.

AT SHUMCHUN

IN WEST SHANSI -

* FINOTSL SHENSI, Nov. 20 (Central)--Further successes have

YINGTAK, Nov, 20 (Central)—A been scored by the Chinese in west force of about 1,000 Japanese Shans in their sweeping drives

While salaries should be fully troops at Shumchum launched a against the Japanese, according to

A.A. Battery

Opens Fire

On S. Coast

LONDON, Nov. 20′ (Rester)—An

BORDER CROSSED

FRENCH PRECAUTIONS

and

The vanguards of the Japanese and Annamite troops have taken forces appear to have already up their positions in Indo-China crossed the Kwangsi border, for bordering on Hwangtung they were reported to be eight Kwangsi in view of the Japanese

occupation of Fangcheng. miles from the Kwangsi border yes- terday morning:

Thirteen Japanese planes, in two groups, yesterday after- noon heavily bombed Nanning, dropping many explosive) and Incendiary bombs.....

CHINESE CONFIDENCE

This is a precautionary measure against violation of French" neu- trality by Japanese troops in the along the landing operations

coast.

Enemy units are attempting to advance inland along the highway

paid according to the present fierce attack on the Chinese post-latest military despatches to hand. A. A battery opened Dre this The confidence of the Chinese from Yamchow and Fangcheng to- high level, the full amounts should tions at Pingwu, Cheungmuktu and Sihsten, strategic town north-moming in a town on the South High Command in the military wards Evangst, but the arrival of altuation in Kwangel is indicated Chinese reinforcements at points not be paid in cash the remainder Tintongwel on the Canton-Kowloon west of Punsten, was recaptured Coast. An enemy plane was dying in the delay to return to his Kwel beyond naval guns range have held to be placed to postal savings se- Railway on Saturday. They were by the Chinese on Saturday. The at a great height.

repulsed by Chinese forces with Japanese, numbering about 200. Later another machine was seen chung ad cuter of the General There is no truth in the Japan-

lin headquarters of Gen. Pat up the drive, counts.

fled in an easterly, direction,' :: According to Mr. Keynes, the considerable losses.

Staff of the Chinese Army, and ese claim that their forces have enforcement of such a system

To the east of Siangning, the flying eastward towards the sea, KWELIN," "Nov, 20 (Central) Chinese have retaken, two more R. AF. planes had been aying concurrently Director of the Gen-occupled Tatang in Kwangsi, 50 would provide the British Trea- Bury with an annual amount of Nanning, the capital of Ewangsi, important points, Tuanshanling in some of the area before the eralissimo's South-West Head-kilometres south of Nanning, or

was twice bombed by thirteen Continued on Back Page enemy machines appeared. quarters, who is at present attend-leven Taszu in Kwangtung.

£400,000.

NANNING BOMBED"

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