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XIXTH ARMY LAUNCH VIGOROUS OFFENSIVE. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek Proceeding to the Front. THE PASSING OF A GREAT THE MARCO POLO

Geostal Chiang Kai-shek, co- appointed Generalissimo be the Chinese forces, who is leaving for the war zone shortly.

GERMAN ENVOY OUTRAGE.

FOREIGN

PLOT

ALLEGED.

VICTIM

QUICKLY RECOVERING.

Moscow, Mar. 7.

Herr VOR Twardowski. the Counsellor of the Germa Ent. bussy, who was shot in the neck and hand during the week-end. In speedily recovering from his in- juries.

The Soviet have expresed their reprots to the Barlin Foreign Office at the out- rage, says that Herr von Twardow ski's pasilent. A1 man nuned Stern, belongs to a group of ter- rorists, acting under the orders of certain foreigners.

Government, who

The Soviet Government allege that Stern hus gunfessed that the motive of the crime was to bring about strained relations between Russia and Germany. Reuter.

BRITISH STOCK

BOOM.

LEAGUE

STATESMAN.

CHINESE TEAR UP DEMARCHE. WARM TRIBUTES IN

RAILWAY.

GENERAL ENGAGEMENT FEARED IMMINENT.

JAPANESE ORDERS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

Shanghai, Mar. 8, 10.30 a.m. THREATENING A RENEWAL OF MILI- TARY OPERATIONS ON A LARGE SCALE OVER THE ENTIRE AREA ADJACENT TO SHANGHAI, THE NINE- TEENTH ARMY LAUNCHED A VIGOROUS OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE JAPANESE OUTPOSTS IN FRONT OF THE EXTREME RIGHT OF THEIR LINE YESTERDAY MORNING.

INTO LINE WITH AMERICA.

LATEST BRITISH PROPOSAL.

N IMPORTANT resolu-

Ation is to be submitted

to

the League: Assembly

at the instance of the. Bri tish Government, bringing League action more into line with the US. demarche of January 7, regarding the final adjustment of the Sino- Japanese dispute.

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY

MEETING.

SIR JOHN SIMON'S PROPOSAL.

LONDON AND GENEVA.

APOSTLE OF PEACE.

London, Mar. 7.

The eminent French states- man, M. Aristide Briand, who died in his Paris home this afternoon, following a heart attack, was eleven times Prime Minister of France and twenty- five times a Minister,

M. Briand had only been ill for a week when he neeümbet, though he кал compelled to resign from the oftre of Minister for Foreign Affairs on January 8, when he was found to be suffering from heart disease as the result of overwork and excessive cigarette Minking.

M. Brland's Last Iny's. For a while he retired to his in country home at Cocherelles Normandy, hut he reluctantly con-

orders ta sented to doctor** undergo treatment of a murahg kome.

He returned to Paris 01 London, Mar. 7. China's acceptance of the peare February 28 and proceded to his rosolution passed by the Goheral flat, where he took to his bed, only Committee of the League Asembly seeing intimate friends.

Anxiety began to grow on Friday, was indleated in tele- grams from General Chiang Kai-Thursday and worsened during shek and Mr. T. V. Soon, while the week-end, bepe being finally 01 Sunday. The Prezident of the Council of Minis abandoned ters, which were rengi to this meel-famous atateaman was conscious buying of the Assembly at Geneva to- until the end.

day by Chinese deli Afcor:W. W. Yen.

At the moment, the engagement is more or less con- 'fined to the northern Liuho sector, near Sekiang,

fresh Chinese troops are pouring into the lines from Soochow, and there is every reason to fear that the hostilities will develop into a battle along the whole line shortly.

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He

the Pact ol

The late M., Briand,' photo- the French graphed outside Foreign Office, which he oo. cupied through Ministry after Ministry.

PAINTING

THE TOWN.

BERLIN REDS & PRESIDENCY.

Very Active.

TRAIL.

A MOTOR TREK ACROSS ASIA.

HAARDT PARTY'S

ADVENTURES.

Several members of the Central' Asiatic Motor Expedition arrived here yesterday afternoon, follow- ing the completion ut it 7,000- mile journey across Aula from Beirut, on the Mediterranean evast of Syria, where. I started

April

Fant

The expedition was divided into

to two parties owing the un certainty of one big party com pleting the journey along the un known route, One party, consist- ing of seven caterpillars and two ordinary cars, left Peking in April. expecting to meet the Beriut party at the ancient Chinese city Kashgar in Eastern Turkestan, but eventually they met 200 milos to the cast of Kashgar, at Akau.

On Edge of Precipice.

-

of

The Beirat party had planned a ? route through Syrin, Irak, Mesopo- tumia, Afghanistan, Russian Tur. kestan and Chinese Turkestan, but political troubles in Afghanis tan necessitated a change of route via the passes of the Himalayas and the Pamirs.

The expedition- arrived at Srina- gar (Kashmir), at the foot of the Himalayas, on June 20 and obtain ed the permission of the British Government to travel along the Ghilgit road. it was intensely hot, the shude temperaturo being 120...

Altitude Record,

They were told on leaving Srinu- gar that it would probably be im-

than 30 miles through the moon- tains, but they went 200 miles, and are believed to have beaten the motor altitude record in this track- Juss region. They reached a height of 13,775 feel.

- Advocate of Peace. He will be remembered always i During the subsequent discus-! sion, the British delegate, Sir for his contributions to the cause! John Simen emphasized the impor-of

among nations. tance of local negotiations for the played on important part in the

framing of the Locarno Trenty Nazi Leaders Also Rsible for them to proceed more Settlement of the dispute.

The situation, he said, involved the und was joint author with Mr. Reuter announces from Nanking that General usefulness of the League and they Frunk Kellogg of

had to show that the League was Paris. Chiang Kai-shek, who has been re-appointed Command-indispensible as an instrument of seawe__947 of sinove osim ar

(Router's Special Service). er-in-Chief of the Chinese Army, Navy and Air Force,

ponze. They could not well props ponujasip v zo veel ayı ceed to discuss the dispute as they r Aqjvágás Am se of da

Berlin, Mnr. 7. is leaving shortly for the military headquarters at Kun- were, not in posacasion of all the I pus pri nas po p The Nazis and the Communists)

tappe a 30 para a are extremely active in their pro shan, roughly halfway between Shanghai and Soochow. facts.

He suggested that the Lengue 10180 pund a 118pagandising regarding the Pre- Commission of Enquiry having apa yang ay on wesidential election campaign. That fighting is proceeding in The staff left for Sangklang, arrived in Manchuria, delegates you

spazi kuw the Liuko acetor in admitted by the some twenty miles from Shanghai should wait until the report was pay by day to

on the Shanghai-Hangchow Rail- submitted by its members.

Parsipunojord } Japanese High Command, which way, taking the telephone and tele- has issued an official statement,|graph apparatus, which they din- Announcing that detachments of mantled, and all rolling stock. the XIXth Route Army Iaunched a vigorous attack on the Japanese positions at ten o'clock yesterday morning.

DEFENSIVE ACTION.

The statement adds that orders been issued by General Shirakawa, the commander-in-

LINE TORN UP.

Five hundred soldiers of an In- dependent Brigade of the Chiang | Kai-shek 88th Division, stationeil at Haingchang, having waited for the last train to pass, at once tore up a considerable section of the line.

NEW ISSUES HEAVILY OVER-SUBSCRIBED.

London, Mar. 7. Applications for the lasue of £1,500,000 of Ave per cent. stock by the Metropolitan District Rail- way are stated to have amounted) have to over £50,000,000. This is the! third big recent issue of stock) that has been heavily over-sub-chief of the Eleventh Division, the South Station is situated, is that the Japanese force holding The Croydon Corporation, which the positions now being attacked has also made a new jaaue, asked are to confine their operations for £750,000 and was offered £16,-| 000,000.

The Nyasaland Government re- quired £2,000,000 and applications ment.

scribed.

000.

solely to repulsing the attack and are to avoid any offensive move

The rumours of an impending Japanese landing at Nantao, where till current without any vidence

in confirmation.

are

He was in favour of making a solemn declaration, affirming that the fundamental principles of the League would have to be the Hole basis for the settlement of the disputes. The decinra- tion should realem the three principles laid down in the Pact of Paris and the Covenant of the League, namely, the preven- tion of external aggression, the guarantee of territorial Integri-

the ty and

guarantee of political Independence.-British Wireless.

MASS MEETING IN. LONDON.

EARL GREY OF FALLODEN GIVES VIEWS

Characteristic pictures of the late M. Briand.

of ponce and goodwill among nations' will ever be held in

honoured and grateful remem brance."

British Sympathy.

Lord Tyrrell, the British Am- bassador in Parla, has transmitted

Their route waa

an ancient

caravan truck winding along the edge of precipices and up and down the steep mountains, Heavy Slogans are being painted upon rains added to their troubles. pavements and walls under the

In the most difficult spots laads cover of darkness, and tom of had to be transferred from the literature are being poured out by cars to ponies. In one pass which 12 printing pressen.

was traversed the snow was The Communists went further feet deep, and at, one period it and affixed a gigantle Red Flag to took three days to cover 18 miles. the wireless tower, where it flut- Beyond Ghilgit, 100 miles north tered for hours before it could be of Srinagar, the route became no removed.

difficult and the lateness of the The Government Party has been season adding to the risks, it be autlufted with the employment of came necessary for the cars to re- `normal methods of appealing to the turn to Beirut, public, with placards on the street corners anouncing:

Caravan of 200 Animals

Twelve members of the party, "Germany's fight for justice and

acientiate and freedom demands strength and including the unity. Germany Unite. Vote for photographers, "then formed a Hindenburg."

caravan of 200 animals, including One of the Presidential candi-panies, camela and yaks and tra- dates, Herr Winter is unable to velled 1,000 miles to Akau, In participate in the propaganda as Eastern Turkestan, where they he is still in prison.

mot the Peking detachment.

was then re- The expedition formed and arrived at Urumcht, in the. North of Turkestan, on Oc tober 28.

PEACE BREAKDOWN.

Shanghai, however, la chiefly in- terusted in the developinents along the Kading-Liuho front, where

London, Mar. 7. fighting secmu inevitable. The

A great mass meeting, organia- letter of sympathy from the chairman, Monsieur Hymans. reached a total of about £60,000,- Novertheless, a grave fear is ex-Chinese forces gatheringed by the League of Nations Unlon, Prime Minister to Monsieur Tar. During the debate In the House of By the end of November the pressed by foreign military circles strength, the complete failure of was held in the Royal Albert Hall dieu and has also conveyed to him a Commons, on the Navy estimates expedition was able to resume ita considerable do-Journey and followed a route attempt every These over-subscriptious are re- that the additional Chinese troops terms for au armistice, the blank consolidate public opinion in re- on behalf of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. I crease, Sir Austen Chamberlain i though the Chinese province of garded as a demonstration of the which have been drafted into the refusal of the Chinese to submit gard to the Far Eastern situation. Mr. Ramany MacDonald, in the

to secure agreed thla evening, the object being to personal expression of sympathy which show a

referred to the passing of M. Slakang and across the Mongo- great change that has come over the investment market during the area, will shortly be drawn into to the more stiff of the Japanese Earl Gray of Falloden, famous name of his colleagues and him- Beland, remarking that the cause fan Desert, past few weeks---British Wireless. the action and that the engage-resumption of hostilities on n big. When the fateful days of July,ment of his deep sympathy in the take the place of those

A Mohammedan rebellion against demands, seem to foreshadow a for his efforts to prevent the Great seif, assured the French Govern of peace needed new friends to

who had the Governor of Sinklang had |ment will become general.

1914, presided.

great loss the French nation has pass away. No man was better a laid waste much of the country suffered in the passing of my friend of that cause and no man and the rebel commander, on- old friend. We have been work- had served that cause more loyal deavoured to frustrate the expe

ly, and we who survive him may dition. Mr. Haardt doclared that Lord Gray and that if the waring together for well over continued, Japan would probably generation and I feel his death and the encouragement and the the part of the trip was by far have more military successen, but Briand dedicated the whole of following his example.

Mstimulus to continue his effort by the most dangerous. with a peculiar köenness. there would not open to Japan the

-Rebels' Active,

One member of the party, re-

CHARLTON JUMP TWO PLACES.

SECOND DIVISION

RELEGATION.

London, Nar. 4.

TROOPS POURING IN.

xcule..

The fighting at Liuho is still pró- ceeding according to latest reports One of the reasons for this be and in the event of a Chinese de ief is that several fresh Divisions feat, it in ladicated that fresh of the Chinese Army which arrived troops will be rushed up to the from Soochow previous to the at-¦ Lluho sector. tack, have been ordered to the Litho sector, the acene of the fighting.

NANKING PLANS.

Farthermore, the Japaneno

Shanghal, Mar. 8) Fourteenth Division, consisting of i Several divisions of Nanking about 14,000 men, disembarked inj

forces, under General Chiang this area. Converted transports, convoyed by warcraft, have been Kal-shek, are being mobilised for unloading sold'ora and munitions the relief of the Nineteenth Route

Japan's. "Successen."

than bronze

A Noble Place.

huge Chinese commercial, market his long life, without respite, to which was of greater interest to the high purpose of creating good

In un interview at Geneva, the 'mained at Hamal, the important understanding between peoples, Japan than to any other Power.

It looked to him as if, at any for which his name will ever be a Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, trade route Junction in Sinklang," rate, the civilian element in Japan famous monument, more lasting cald that few statesmen of our with supplies. He eventually escap

He was indeed an, times had won so noble a place in cd with three Chinese officers, in would be glad to get out of the architect of peace and his loss the history of mankind as M. motor-cars, and by traversing ung

will be deeply felt not in France Briand, alfks, by hin love and de- known country succeeded in «TB-) unhappy business,

**** League's Position, y. only, but among all men of good-voted service to his own country, joining the main expedition."

whose and by his wholehearted work for supplies had will throughout the world."

the cause of peace and interna-looted. t'onal" friendship, Atothis,

Kaim

In the Second Division of the English League to-day, Charlton Athletic defonted Barnsley at the Valley by three goala a ono.

Charlton jump two places from at the new Zichengying base near Army. Eight divisions 026-00 Lord Cecil declared that the the lower half of the table, which Liuha for the past three days.

their way to Shanghai while twelve divisions bave received Another hint of Impending orders for mobilisation. The 319 6 10 41 20 24 bostilities in contained in the with- Nanklag Government intends to

drawal of the staff of the Shangbai | South Station shortly before ten mobilise o'clock last night.

Renaka.

is affected as follows:

Charlton

Fort Vale

31 10 6 15 46 70 25 31-07.15 38 67 23

Burnley

31 9 6 16.30 70 24

Barnsley

Bristol

31 3 0 19 28 54 15

--Roister.

ANOTHER HINT.

.

300,000-

been completely

Geneva Tributes.

to avold the rebola, whole machinery of the League of Nations for preventing war must

In order to When the news of M. Briand's cult moment in the League' bis-who frequently fired on thịom) the be dangerously affected unless they death was read at the meating in try we can nay no better tribute expedition was compelled the divert closely adhered to the position that Geneva of the Standing Ordere han by doing our utmost to fin route to the norths" (Op ons breathon of a country's polige Conference, the delegates stood the building which Briand bandits, but succeeded, Tee disorder in China could not justi: Commilites of the Disarmament wherinh, tho, grest Institution. In occasion they were ambushed by infantry- tions under the Langua of Nations in silence with howed honds. A dauntedky, much, anthurinam them on with rifle fire, 7 Intense

Covenant-Router.

touching tribute, was paid by the arU FILMY NE

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