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SHANGHAI PERIL: CHINA PREPARES TO FIGHT.

Fresh Troops Arrive: Boundary Barricades: Trench Digging.

FINAL JAPANESE WARNING.

WANT UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE

OF ULTIMATUM TERMS.

CHINESE DEFIANT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

SHANGHAI, Jan. 26.

that

FINAL WARNING Japan expectsį

THE DARTMOOR MUTINY.

NEW SENSATION.

LIVELY DEBATE AT

GENEVA.

TROOPS RUSHED MR. YEN'S REPORT ON JAPAN'S

LAST NIGHT.

unconditional acceptance of the demands contained in Admiral Shiosawa's ultimatum at by

AN IMMEDIATE ENQUIRY.

CONVICT'S FALL FROM ROOF.

London, Jan. 25.

The Home Secretary has appointed Mr. Herbert Duparca, K.C., the Recorder of Bristol, to hold an im. mediate inquiry into the whole of the circumstances connected with the disorder at Dartmoor Convict Prison.

Mr. Darcy will be assiste 1

Mr. Alexander Paters st

and Director of Convict Prismus

the earliest possible moment was conveyed to H. M. Commissioner of Prisons Mr. Wu Tieh-chen, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, since 1922. by Mr. Murai, the Japanese Consul-General. yesterday afternoon.

All was igniet at Bart mone To

Clay

Except for the minor offvels of the very rough handling they re-

be

to

anjevived, no prison official or police.

ficer was seriously hurt, and Jonly

injured.

The only Chinese response has been alarming indication that the demands will rejected and that resistance will be offered any steps that the Japanese may venture to take to enforce compliance.

The seriousness of the situation cannot be over- estimated. The Chinese are bringing in fresh troops

considerable to Shanghai,

movements along the Shanghai-Nanking Railway having been noted.

The new troops are digging trenches and adopting other defence measures at Chapci.

The troops at Chenju have been reinforced, and strong defences are being erected for the purpose of guarding the Chenju Wireless Station.

All the International Settlement boundary roads are being prepared for defence. Barbed-wire entangle ments and sand-bagged machine-gun nests are being erected, both round the Settlement and at Chapei.

Shanghai outskirts are rapidly becoming to resemble a city preparing for a siege.

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.

Mr. Murai enlled upon the Mayor, Mr. W. yesterday afternoon and asked for his reply to the Japanese demanis.

Mr. Wu Tich-chen replied that it had not yet bee drafted and asked Mr. Murai to wait for a certain definite

time.

Mr. Murai refused. He stated that if the Japanese did not receive a satisfactory reply within a reasonable time, it would be necessary to take appropriate measures for self- protection. The only satisfactory reply would be unconditional acceptance of the demands.

TWO MORE JAPANESE PRIE STS NEAR DEATH.

one enviet is really serious-

This particular man is suffer-

in from ronetisam Pard

by

falling off a root. British MM.

OUTSIDE ATTACK

ALARMS.

are

London, Jan. 26. Sensational rumours That friends of tho convicts WOTT phoning an attack on DartERET Prison from the side said to have been responsible for the dramatic despatch to Dart- mone last night of a hundred soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment, officially described as "a precautionary measure.”

The prison now resembles beleaguered fortress. All strategie approaches are guard.

soldiers erl by

with londer!

rifles and fixed hayunets.

A machine-gun squail is posted. the main road with orders that

:

“OPEN DOOR” POLICY.

ALARM ABOUT SHANGHAI

" HAVE NO DOUBT that Japan favours the Open Door policy in Manchuria, but the door will be so crowded with Japanese getting in that nobody else will be able to pass."

This swift retort by Mr. W. W. Yen to the Japanese delegate enlivened the proceedings of the League Council at Geneva yesterday, when Mr. Yen hinted at the possibility that China would invoke the Sanctions Clauses of the League Covenant.

Mr. W. W. Yen.

China, he said, annreciates, the desirability of working

"In Harness" two captive Chinese “bendita" are shown in this picture being led to prison barracks by a Japanoto soldier in Manchuria. The prisoners were members of the forces which have

been molesting the Japanese krmy,

for a solution of the dispute PAYING OUR

under Article Eleven, but

the necessity for proceeding to the exhaustion of all

DEBTS.

rights and remedies avail- WITHOUT TAX ON

GOLD STOCK.

able under other Articles is becoming daily more press- ing. Mr. Yen stated China's. case with the utmost clarity, and the discussion, almost entirely confined to the ad-the Bank of England will repay. ́dresses of the rival delegations lasted over two hours,

The League Council is appealing to both Governments to do their utmost to prevent a fresh conflagration in Shanghai.

CHINA'S POSITION DEFINED.

London, Jan. 25.

It is officially amouneed thal

BRITAIN BEGINS TARIFF WALL BUILDING.

TEN PER CENT.

FLAT RATE.

on the date of maturity, Febru- NO PREFERENCE

ary 1. the credits OF £16,000,000 each provided by

Bank the Federal Reserve

of. New York and the Bank of ¡France,

By the repayment of these sums, the whole of the £50,000,000 granted to Britain in August in defence of sterling will have been.

Geneva, Jan. 26. jed six weeks and twenty meetings predeemed, Although m League eiretos, it is to a muscientious effort to adjust The operation, be it noted, will felt that the serious revent events the dispute,

be carried out without a redur

by Shanghai will greatly aggravate | Two resolutions had been onani-tion in the gobl reserve of the au alrenly complicated situation, meusly adopted, both based upon Bank of England.- Reuter,. mutil the matter is actually brought solemn Japanese prontises to with-

These promises hail

broken.

been

to the official knowledge of the draw her troops as rapidly as pra-, League, no startling developments | sible. are possible.

In reply to a question on the male- Instead of

a progressive with ›ject, n member of the Council said (drawal, declared Mr. Yon, there]

Brainy

the attitude of the League would has been a progressive advance! Cadets

naturally be influenced by the line since the Council adjournedt six the Chinese delegatium chose to take weeks ago.

541

1. and

Mr. Yeu's Statement,

Relentless

Campaign.

At Discount.

NEW METHOD OF RECRUITMENT.

FOR EMPIRE.

(Router's Special Service).

London, Jan. 25. Having steered through the fogs of Cabinet disagree- ment by extremely: contro- versial methods, the Govern- ment is getting busy with the drafting of the first Measure of its new fiscal programme.

According to the evening newe- papers, it is proposed at the out- set to impose a flat rate of ten per cent.. on all imports of manu- factured and semi-manufactured

·* goods,

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It is also proposed to establish smoll Tariff Commission, which will be composed of ex- perienced Industrialists and business-men.

The Evening Ners states that there is to be no special Prefer- ence for the Dominions in the in- tlal ten per cent, tariff.

Later. Perhaps,

The policy of Imperial Prefor

but seeing that the Commission of Inquiry was about to set out to in- no-one is to be allowed to pass vestigate on the spot, it was not until their

very probable that the Council woud bave japers

been

The aggression had been relenti examined.

materially after its standpoint. The resumed meeting of the lessly pursued until, in the words Although all is quiet inside the Lenge opened at

of the American Secretary of paisan, it is believed that friends the Liberian Slavery Report was ministrative

State, the Inst remaining ad-

authority of the convicts are endeavouring postponed in order to permit the Chinese Government in Southern of the

London, Jan. 25. to organise a mass escape

Conneil to deal exclusively

The Colonial Office-announces with Manchuria had been destroyed. with this idea have approached the Marhurin question.

that it has been decided to dis- The seriousness of the situation, accentamed by the the prison in cars. It is also

Chinchow, with the territories; continue the competition examina- evidence of Chinese preparations for defence, may be further suspected that freed convicts have!

to the south. Including Shanhal-tion hitherto held annually for complicated by news that two other of the Japanese Buddhist carried messages to the outside)

wan, had now followed the fate Cadetships in Malaya and Hong-nce will be added when a general priests attacked last Monday are in a critical condition. (Two World. Renizy,

A very gouve atmosphere persad- of Mukden, Chunchun, Antung kong, and to assimilate the method tariff system is framed, after close ed the stinge when Mr. W. W. Yen, Kirin, Tsitsihar and other Chinese of appointment to that already in consideration has been given to have already died).

the principal Chinese delegate, rose, cities,

possible force for the Colonial service He urged the gravity of the situation upon the Commeil, describinending the province of

now generally. Jehol The candidates will be selected ing the happenings in Manchuria and was endangering other cen- on the advice of the Colonial Ser- as an event, which to the ordinary tres in North, Central and even vice Board. fobserver may have appeared as South China.

peal inċiden), occurring in a re- gion far from the great European and American centres,' which bad grown within four months to problem Traught with grave dan- ger to the peace of the world.

The fire at Mr. Shigemitsu's garage was started by a

member of the Death-Defying Corps of the Nation Salvation AMAZING TOKYO

Association for Resisting Japan,' A loaded pistol was found in the grounds of Mr. Shigemitsu's residence.

EUGENE CHEN BLAMES CHIANG.

held thi

Shanghai, Jan. 26, more aggressive pulley in order) Urging the desirability of to preserve Chinoso. territories The China severing economic relations in North-Eastern China. with Japan, Mr. Eugene Chen meeting

China's insued a statement yesterday ex-sovereign rights must be upheld plaining the reasons for his rejat al costs. signation.

Mr. Chen Buid that fromt

the

Mr. Chen's Solution.

REPORT.

BRITISH CHINA POLICY.

(Our Own Correspondent),

Shanghai, Jan. 25.

The Japanese newspapers here to-day publish a mes- sage from Tokyo to the effect that the Japanese Gov- ernment have received a lat- ter from the British Minister in China, Sir Miles Lampson, stating that it is necessary for both Governments to co- operate in China.

* very beginning he had opposed An a result of the Pence Con- Chiang Kai-shek's non-resistance|ference resolution, Mr. Chen polley, which was mainly respon-jalates he devoted two weeks to a sible for the

Chin-careful consideration of all as fall of chow, the withdrawal of the Man-pects of the Manchurian crists, churlan Army from districts mut-and decided that China must aide the Great Wall, and the sub-sover political and economic rela- sequent grave developments intions with Japan In order to at- Manchuria to

dia-tract international attention to the great advantage of Chin

the situation.

It is rumoured that Bri- My, Chen says that when the He also suggested to the Goy-

tain recognises Japan's Canton and Nanking peaco, envoya arnmont that Article Sixteen of priority in Manchuria in re- assembled at Shanghai, a resolu-the Convenant of the League of turn for Japan's recognition tion was passed that the new coall-Nationa should be invoked.to Britain's prior claims tles Government should adopt a (Continued on Page 4.)

· along the Yangtze,

Japan, he went on, was

The decision marks a stage to- wards the unified Colonial Service, The latest threats are the occupa envianged by the Warren Fisher Hon of Foochow and Shanghai. Committee's report of two years Every boue and expectation that ago, and the final abandonment, the situation would not be aggra where it still exists, of the system voted has been defeated by the con- !

of

of the

sistent development and forceful of competitive examination in Everyone knows, said Mr. Yen,

assertion of an aggressive Japanese favour of the personal selection continuing, that what happened in

policy, to force, China to submit to the candidates by men familiar Manchuria on September 18, 1931.

Japanese annexation, or practical with the special needs was but the initial step in a deli.

to Service. annexation of Manchuria and berately planned and ruthlessly ex-

compel b Central and focal Chinese No decision has been reached as ecuted programme of unjustified

Governments to suppress all mani- to the future method of recruit- aggression by one ration againsttestations of rational feeling pro-mont for the Ceylon Civil Service,

waked by the Japanese attacks and for which the Intolerable violence against China. European officers in at present sus- Since December 1,

Mr.ponded-British Wireloan.

worka.

said

the territorial Integrity of another

About 200,000 square miles of Chinese territory, embracing Chinese population of about 20,000,- 000, had been seized by Japan by Yen conditions had become daily Ho proceeded to argue military forco.

The facts, he said, are undisput-that the Council's. resolution had THE ed. From the outset China hnd no been dofled by Japan and observed choice between preparing her own that the Commission of Inquiry defenes and placing her faith injappointed by the Longus would treaties, and the League. China, not reach Manchuria until April] not being a military Power, had ap at the earliest pealed to the League for succour.

Broken Promises.

Mr. Yon added that the Counci had patiently and earnestly devot

cannot

recruitment of

BOMBAY MILL

STRIKE.

trading arrangements with other countries.

WELSH COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

FOUR DEAD: SIX MISSING.

London, Jan. 28. Four miners are known to have been killed as a result of a pit explosion at Llwyny- pia, in the Rhondda Valley,

Six other miners who wore in the pit at the time of the explo sions are still entombed and are belleved to be dead.

A number of the mon who were roscued are reported to be in a critical condition-Reuter.

Ahmedabad, Jan, 25. The Bombay mills closed down as

A "boy" from Lagard Hall of the a protest against the sentences "My Government

but passed on the Secretaries of the Hongkong Univaralty was removed to the Government Civil Hospital yester- view with the keenest disappoint Labour Association, have now re-day suffering from injurit to him and ment both the delay in starting and sumed working.

caused through falling from a window. the declared intention not to pro- The police have been withdrawn. of the late Dr. G. Y. Wangi 20

(Continued on Page 4). Reuter.

in Pokfulam Road.