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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Important Developments Expected Shortly From

From Ciano-Csaky Talks: Hungarian-Rumanian Relations Involved

ROMË JAN. 8 (REUTER)—THE ONLY ELEMENT OF SURPRISE FROM THE CIANO-CSAKY MEETING 1s THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT COUNT CSAKY, THE HUNGARIAN MINISTER, IS RETURN- ING TO BUDAPEST TODAY INSTEAD OF GOING TO SAN REMO FOR HIS PROPOSED HOLIDAY.

It is concluded in some quarters here that developments may shortly be expected in the relations between Ilungary and" Rumania and that consideration which arose during the talks will be discuss- ed in Badapest immediately. So far, however, there appears little evidence for such dellef,

Specialised Naval Construction

ADMI. USBORNE'S

NEW WORK

The idea is expressed here, but merely

that BS a suggestion, Budapest may inform Bucharest that she will refrain from harass- Ing Rumania on the tran-Sylvan- lan border if Russia made a move against Bessarabla. compelling Rumanian armed resistance.

TACIT AGREEMENT

It has been long believed in Rame that some tacit agreement already exists between Rumania

Bulgaria and

thus relleving

LONDON. Jan. 8 (BWS)--The Rumania of any immediate worry Home Office announced that Vice- on the Dobrudja border.

com-

POLITICAL MURDER IN SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI, Jan. 8 (Reu- ter) Lt. Chen Yu-ching, graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, Canton, was shot dead by two gun- men yesterday shortly after leaving his residence in the International Settlement.

While the true motive is not yet ascertainable, Chi- nese quarters believe it is a political murder.» «

"Manchukuo❞ Economic Situation

SOYA BEANS UNSOLD

Special to the HK. Daily Press BHANGHAI Jan. 8 (Havas)--A

CABLE

ALL NOT ROSY

IN THE PUNJAB, SAYS GANDHI

Disintegration In Organisation Of Congress

BOMBAY, Jan. 8 (Reuter)-Mr. Gandhi, in his paper Harijan, de- clares that Congress organisation shows signs of disintegration, and continues:

"The Bengal Committee is frank- ly defans, Orissa has split into two camps and things are not better at Karnatak while the correspon- dent in Karala says that the Pro- vincial Commi:tee does not believe

the present policy, and the "command is trying by every means

to undermine the influence of the, working of the Committee and things are not rosy in the Punjab,

UNDISCIPLINED ARMY

"I cherish the hope that they will right themselves, if not. I can- not lead. an undisciplined army to victory. Fresh eleccions are now on and the Congressmen's choice. ts unfettered; let the younger men come forward and take charge, but If they will not come forward but 3 retain the old team they should give that old team implicit obedience.

Mr. Gandhi's criticism of Bengal which is elaborated in a lengthy statement issued by Prasad is Interpreted in official circles as

Admiral Usborne, who has been

IDENIITY OF VIEWS Director of Censorship since the VENICE, Jan. 8 (Reuter)-Fal- outbreak of war, has resigned, in towing a further conversation be- order to undertake new work of tween Count Clano and Count național importance for which his Csaky, lasting an hour, a ' experience and service particularly munique was issued stating that

quality him in connexion with the Ministers exchanged views on neutral report from Dairen states

export "Manchukuo" specialized naval construction un-the

in general European situation that der contracts for the Admiralty. and that "once again they have dustry is seriously influenced by

The Home Secretary and the been able to state. with, satisfac-the European war. Director-General of Press and tion, that the foundation on which When "Manchukuo" signed a once more a clear indication of Censorship. Str Walter Monckton the friendship and close collabora- trade treaty with Germany a few the Mahatma's anxiety to avoid pald warm tributes this morning tion of the two countries rest are years ago, based on the "Manchu- precipitate action in connexion to the valuable services Admi. solid and secure and that there, kuoan" five-year plan. it was un- with the present political situation Daborne rendered. ·

exists a perfect Identity of views derstood that "Manchukuoan" in- and Congress majority's deter- Vice-Adml. Usborne is one of the between the two Governments of dustry was to be built up on Germination to keep the Left Wing foremost gunnery experts in the all problema"

machinery and materials clements in order. » Navy and was Head of the Naval

while the main barter, product Intelligence Department from 1930

would be soya beans to 1932.

HAPPY EXPERIENCE

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Count Ciano, in a statement to the press, sald that perfect iden tity of views was shown not only an the political plane, but also en

MRRA

In

consequence of the war, Manchukuo" has been able to

Reuter understands that Vice- the moral plane, on all European ship as the smallest quantities, COMPULSORY

Admiral Usborne resigned to take problems discussed.

ot soya beans to Germany, hence

dyestuffs. etc.

up the post of Joint managing. It is learned that Count Clano German exporters stopped their director of a ship-building firm is leaving for Rome during the day exports of machinery, chemicals, engaged in the production of ship-and Count Csaky is returning to plng material for the Admiralty. Budapest today

Vice-Admiral Usborne, who in- ' LONDON, Jan, & (Reuter)-Ber- anti-mine in reports state that Court Csaky vented the

paravane device in the last war, told Reater Hungarian Foreign Minister. will that his stay in the Censorship return to Italy for a holiday after

had been happy. if he has rengrted to Budapest, arduous experience, and his con- He was expected to leave Venic tact with the Press had been last night but he did not depart

until today. extraordinarily happy:

Bureau

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NAZIS WITHOUT COAL IN BITTER COLD WEATHER

BERN. Jan 8 (Havas)-The

· Berlin

correspondents of Bwiss papers report that an Reute shortage of coal for house heating purposes is being felt in Berlin.

The situation is especially hard for Berlin inhabitants, as thes temperature tell recently below! zero and it is strictly prohibited to use wood for house heating.

The Neus Zuerchers Gazette s correspondent reports that. Field Marshal Goering personally in- tervened with the military com- mand to obtain permission for several trains loaded with coal to "be sent to Berlin.

BRITISH MINISTERS VISIT THE FRONT LONDON. Jan. 8 (Renter)--The Financial Secretary to the British War Office is to spend a few days

EX - KAISER IS INDISPOSED

DOORN, Jan. 8 (Beuter) The Ex-Kaiser is slightly in- disposed with a cold and is. confined to his room.

He will be unable to attend the funeral at Amerengen on Tuesday of his friend Count Bentinck, who first "gave him. shelter when he, came to Hoi- land after abdleating.

Count Bentinck died On Friday, aged eighty-two,

A

LASHIO BRANCH OF SINO-BURMESE CULTURAL ASSN.

LASHTO (By Air Mall); Branch of the Sino-Burmese Cul- tural Association was inaugurated here on Dec. 31 upon the arrival of the Burmese Goodwill Mission.

After a brief stay, the Mission left to return to Rangoon by plane on January 2nd

Interviewed, members of the 34th- son said that when they got to

at B. E. F. headquarters in France. Burma they would tell their coun-

Lord Halfax has paid a visit to the secret headquarters of the

R. A. F. fighter command

trymen about New China,

TWO REASONS Thus the economic situation in Manchukuo" became difficult for two reasons, firstly, large quant!- ties of soya beans" remained unsold and, secondly, many factories are walt'ng in vam for machinery and chemicala.

"Manchukuo" attempted to use neutral vessels for shipping woya beans to Rotterdam but exchanga. restrictions both in Germany and "Manchukuo" prevented repetition of this experiment.

SERVICE IN

"INDIA

NEW DELHI, Jan, 8 (Reuter) -It is understood that the in- troduction of Compulsory Na- tional Service for male Euro- pean British subjects in India is under consideration by the Government of India.

All Britons between the ages

16 of

and 50 are now registered under an ordinance issued by the Viceroy on Aug. 5 30.

Finnish Airmen Drop Bibles On Leningrad

tors:

Optimism among the Finns is increasing "because of three fac-

FIRSTLY, their air defences are proving increasingly effective and are being rapidly augmented;

SECONDLY, the entire eastern front from the Arctle Ocean to -Lake Ladoga, on which 360,000 Rassians are concentrated, has been Finnish successfully held by the smaller, but extremely: mobile, forces:

THIRDLY, prospects on the short Southern Front on the Kare- Tan. Isthmus, which is a very critical point, are in no way unpro- pitious, although the vast weight of the Russians are being concen- trated here before the Mannerheim Line.

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TABLE

wishes. HELSINKL Jan. 8 (Reuter)-A| Stalin's ideals and Finnish broadcast appeal yester-war-mongers and stop the day declared: "We may be beaten and you will obey the true orders by force, but we shall have to be from Salin, father of our prole- annihilated.**

tarian fatherland."

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940. -PAGE 7

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Assembly Of Envoys In Chungking

NO INDICATIONS OF MEDIATION

CHUNGKING, Jan. 8

(Int'l)—

The presence of the British and French Ambassadors in Chung- king and the coming visit of the time American Ambassador some this week do not Indicate any sign of mediation." according to well-informed circles.

ena- !.

opposing

U.S.-JAPAN TRADE Statements by American tors and congressmen renewal of the Trade Treaty with Japan or advocating an embargo on goods to that country » were featured in the newspapers here and were read with satisfaction in official circles.

It is learned that the National Government will con:inue" its, po- licy of friendship with great Bri- tain, the United States and the U.S.S.R.

CABLE TO PRESIDENT

The Chungking Municipal Lea- gue tabled to President Roose- velt yesterday urging him not to replace the American-Japanese Treaty of Trade and Navigation which is due to expire on January

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Rationing Of The Royal Household Will Be As

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Strict As Possible

LONDON, Jan, 8 (BWS)-At the King's request rationing of the Royal Household will be as strict as possible. The King and Queen and other members of the Royal family in readiness of the ration- ing of bacon, jam, butter and sugar, which begins today, have been issued with travelling ration cards similar to those used by commer- cial travellers and others who have to continuously move about coun- try.

The Queen has drawn up special menüs which eliminate two courses from luncheon and dinner and

"We trust that your love for Justice, peace and liberty will has instructed that more fruit and this order the kitchen gardens at prompt you to accept our plea,"getables be used. To implement the telegram said.

Windsor Castle are being extend.. e1.

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.800 YEARS' OLD

CEREMONY AT CHAPEL ROYAL ....

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LONDON, Jan. (BWS)—The eight-hundred years" old ceremony Rationing is being regarded by at which offerings of gold, frankin- the county generally na necessary cense and myrrh are made by the

BROADCASTS BY and even a helpful expedient un King's of England at the Feast of

"LORD HAW”

der present conditions.

the Epiphany took place on Satur- 'NOT DEPRIVATION

day in the Chapel Royal, Baint James's Palace, when two gentle- The Manchester Guardian says men ushers of the King placed a **The properly regarded system 13scarlet bag, containing the offer-

High Entertainment not one of deprivation but of con- ings, before the altar.

venience. With quantities assured Value

Formerly beaten gold was offered and alternatioris available the diet LONDON, Jan. 8 (BWS-The of the nation will lose nothing in by Kings but since the middle of attitude of the authorities in Bryfood values while relief to shipping the last century the gift of gold tain and Germany towards the will free it for the carriage of car- consists of 25 sovereigns later dis

tributed to the poor. The frankin- circulation of foreign news and goes vital to victory."

Had the public needed stimulus cense is subsequently given to 'the Church where incense is burned to cheerful acceptance of the plan and the myrrh, which is supplied comment affords Interesting con-

it was to be found in Mr. Morri by the Royal Household physician, shows that increasing publicity is son's plea that we should not ask is later sent to the hospital for Eastern, Poland, which is being given in Berlin to punish seafaring men, naval and mercan-\ treatment of, throat and mouth the R.A.F, zone and toured various National Newspaper, and Magazine Kanplo on Jan. 6 resulted in one occupied by the Boviets, conditions ments of growing severity impos- tie, to add to the risks they are

MR. CHURCHILL

A Bribish Wireless message add

that the First Sea Lord, Mr, Win-

ston Churchill, yesterday visited

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A communique states that ar

MUCH UNREST attempt by an enemy ski detach-

PARIS, Jan. 8 (Renter)-Reports Circuit Exhibition ment catflank the Finnish

troops in the Salla Sector was de- from the Polish press declare that Of Newspapers

feated and that 300 of the enemy there is much unrest in both the territories under Germar and. were killed,

Russiar control Enemy air raids on Labti and

KIAN, Jan.

8

(Central)-The

He was accompanied by Profes- a small city in South-West Klang-shot down sor Linderman, the scientist, and si, in a preliminary exhibition will be with the B.EF. and Air yesterday. Component units today,

was not great

In

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will

FOOD SITUATION

The itinerant exhibicion

HELSINKI, Jan. 8. (Reuter-living start early next month on its tour The food situation in Finland is

trast...

Information reaching London

units in the course of a visit to Circult Exhibition; under the aus killed and two wounded. The

the Western pices of the Klangsi Provincial | material damage

are deteriorating rapidly and pri- ed on Germans and even neutral hourly taking with such fine cour- British forces on

"A few minor alternations in our Front

Library, made its debut in Talho, and twelve enemy planes et vate trade is almost at a stand-foreigners caught listening in to age by bringing us excess.

foreign newS still owing to the lack of supplies British and other

Recustomed dietary will be gladly while the requisitioning has re- broadcast.

faced by every citizen who can sulted in a big rise in the cost of in Britain, on the other hand, envisage the saving they entail in times of foreign news broadcasts

cargo space in the export of cur- Farmers prefer to barter their are freely published in the press rency and in demands made on

and the character of these broad-ong sailors." the paper adds. to various cities of Kiangsi and good. Ration cards are only re-products than to accept cash.

and quired for coffee and sugar

The Soviet propaganda i5-50 later to other parts of China.

casts is freely discussed. More than 4,000 items of news-there are ample home supplies of fantastic that, the Pales are ac papers and magazines published milk, cream, butter and eggs. throughout the country are

JAPAN WILL HELP WANG TOKYO, Jan. 8 (Reuter)-Japan has formally decided to make every effort to assist in the forina- on of a new Chinese Central Government by Wang Ching-wai This was announced after, the emergency meeting of the Cabinet. Wang and the premiers of the Japanese-sponsored governments at Peking and Nanking-known by the Japanese as the "three big heads of China"--are meeting in Nanking or Bhanghai on or about Jan, 15 to push preparations for the new Central Government. :

exhibition.

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FINNISH ANOTHER

ATHLETE KILLED

HELSINKI. Jan. 8 (lavas) -Another world known Finnish athlete. Birker Vase- nius, was killed in action north of Lake Ladoga.

Vasentus Wor Finland's Speed-Skating Championship In 1935 and the world In 1939

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title

cepting them as jokes.

FINNS ADVANCING PAMPHLETS FOUND

HELSINKI, Jan. 8 Reuter)-The STOCKHOLM. Jan. 8 (Havas)- Propaganda from

mysterious Finnish troops continue to advance sources was revealed today by on the Balla Front Preceded by the Stockholm paper Bladet, which printed a photo-Finns reoccupied the positions, in. static copy of a pamphlet found feting heavy losses on the Sovieta. in Ritter cold in the Karellan Front by advancing Finnish troops

Russian is holding up major pperations the the recently abandoned

temperature being 34 degrees be trenches.

Afton heavy artillery bombardment, the

The pamphlets which are print-low zero,

The Russians are digging them ed in Russian read: "Comrades, turn your arms against your own selves in and finding the cold so officers and commissars who are intense that many of the soldiers pursuing the Finnish war against have become unconscious".

POMPOUS OBSERVATIONS One German broadcaster, whose pompous and condescending ob- servations on life in Britain earn- ed him the nickname of Lord Haw

affections.

SOUTH-WEST. BORDER EDUCATION.

KWEILIN, JAT" # (Central)—The South West Border Education Mis sion" arrived here from Kwelchow yesterday and will soon proceed to Yashan to investigate the educa tion and Bring conditions of the Yao tribesmen

The Misalon sent by the Minis-

Haw 18 the subject of interesting and mists are general over the try of Education left Chungking

Correspondence in The Times.

·AIR ACTIVITY ALMOST NIL PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuter) Rain

French front and there has been, last August and. has made a almost a complete calm ali akong thorough investigation of the edu- jcational and social-conditions of the It reveals that there is a wide the Ine in the past 24 hours.

Air activity has been practically aboriginal tribes in Yunnan and divergence of opinion as to whe- ther his marineriams of speech in though a lone German plane, Kwelchow

fa investigation were acquired in the Midland made a reconnaissance fight over After counties, Scotland or Chicago, but eastern France....

Kwangsi, it will retum to Chung- there is general agreement among ▸ Ground patrols were active as ring to submit a report to the correspondents that his broad usual, prowling along in the mud Ministry of Education with recom- entertainment and rain, particularly west of mendations for promotion ui caste bave high

education, among the aborigines.

value.

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