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五拜禮 號三月三英港香

FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933.

二日八月二

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DRAMATIC REVIVAL OF HOPE IN JEHOL DEFENCE

Counter-Attack Partially Retrieves Lingyuan Collapse: Sun Tien-ying Denies Defection

DR. KOO TO PEKING KEPT ON JUMP IN A

CARRY ON

RESIGNATION

RUMOURS

DAY OF EXCITEMENT

CHINESE LEADER HATTORI DETACHMENT ATTACKED IN

EXPLAINS

Geneva, Mar. 2.

Rumours were in circulation in Geneva to-day that Dr. Welling- ton Koo and other members of the Chinese delegation had tendered their resignations to the Nanking Government: "Dr. Wellington Koo, in an inter- view with Reuter, confirmed the re-. ports that he und his colleagues had offered their re- signations as de- legates to the Assembly in con- nexion with the Sino-Japanese dispute.

They felt, he

Dr. Koo. Maid, that the close of one chapter | had been reached at Geneva and were of opinion that the Nanking Government might like to have new blood to represent its views.

They were all very tired. They had worked for a long time and felt they needed a change, but having received the information for which they had asked from their government in regard to the post- tion' and plans, they had agreed. to carry on-Reuter.

Geneva, Later.

It has been ascertained that Quo Tai-chi, Wellington Koo and Dr. Yen, telegraphed their re- signations as their view is that the centre of gravity has shifted from Geneva to Jehol, where stout resistance should be offered.- Renter.

DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE

Rubber Caution Necessary

Not "Action"

點

London, Mar. 2.

REAR AND RETREAT

EARLY

ALARMS CALMED

"THE DEFECTION OF A CHINESE COMMANDER HOLDING AN IMPOR TANT SECTOR ON THE LINGYUAN FRONT, CAUSING A COLLAPSE OF THE WHOLE LINE AND THE FALL OF LINGYUAN, PERSISTENT | REPORTS, WHICH APPEARED TO BE ONLY TOO TRUE, OF THE DE- FECTION OF SUN TIEN-YING AT CHIHFENG, KEPT PEKING IN THE JUMPS YESTERDAY. THE FATE OF JEHOL SEEMED TO BE SEALED, ALTHOUGH THE DETERMINATION TO PUT UP A FINAL STAND ON A

Holding a narrow defile in the battle area of Jehol, Chinese gunners” wait for the attack. In the rocky country, men like these have

proved a big obstacle to the Japanese. (Photo: Sorge Vargassoff),'

U.S.

BANK CRISIS

45-MILE FRONT FROM SSUTAOKOU TO PINGCHUAN WAS ANNOUNC SPREADING

ED.

.

Intense activity was noted in military circles. In the evening brighter news came and the Chinese are feeling much more hopeful. The Chinese claim to have counter-attacked and recaptured Lingyan. Sun Tien-ying has sent a message denying his defection, declaring he still holds Chihfe.ng. The cause of Peking's depression and subsequent revival of spirits are summarised in the following mes- sages from the Telegraph's special correspondent.

SUMMARY OF DESPATCHES

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received. March 3, 1.17*a, m.pant 2.53 mm

Peking, Mar. 3, 1 a.m.

The Chinese forces are now facing a

·critical situation.

Peking. Mar. 3, 2 am, Despatches received late to-night put a better complexion on The japanese turned the

the situation. A right flank in the south, isolating Paishtsumen. counter-attack has driven the invaders out of Lingyuan has been lost A stand is to be Lingyuan. Suen Tien-ying denies he has made at Pingchuan. .The uncertain attitude furned over to Manchukuo. On the contrary, of General Sun Tien-ying has compelled the he claims a victory, having driven back the Chinese command to throw a defence line japanese, he announces, to Fanghsien, from Pingchuan, to Ssutackou, representing" twenty-five miles from the entrance to Chih- the last fine of defence.

feng Pass.

"TELEGRAPH'S" SPECIAL REPORTS

FIRST DEFECTION.

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Messager Ordinames, 1895. #. 0.58. a.ma}

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Peking, Mar. 1. Chinese despatches received! late to-night have put a better complexion on the earlier news

EARLY REPORTS.

gone over.

STOCK MARKETS CLOSE DOWN

$50,000,000 PEOPLE.

AFFECTED

New York, Mar. 2. The American banking

| crisis is gathering speed and is causing a complete suspen- sion of trading in a number of important centres.

The number of States joining the bank holiday has now been augemented by the imposition of restrictive measures in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Louisiana and Oklahonta, 'where the closing of the banks varies from four to five days..

the

moratoria.

conditions in other States.

SIAM DENIES AID RUMOURS

NOT HELPING JAPAN- IN ANY WAY

(Special to "Telegraph") ..

(Du Telegraph.. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, $194. Received, March T Bangkok, Mar. 3.

Rumours, apparently arising from Siam's abstention from voting on the Assembly's Report, that

Siam is supporting Japan. are quite unfounded states a

issued cammonique

by

the at siding Japan in any way— Siamese Foreign Office. Siam'is Renter,,

BIG QUAKE IN JAPAN

IMMENSE DAMAGE BY TIDAL WAVE

FIRST REPORTS OF DISASTER-

London, Mar. 2. The greatest earthquake recorded in his twenty-eight years' experience is announc- ed by Mr. Shaw, the seismologist at West Brom- wich Observatory.

The shucks began at 5.43 p.m. Greenwich -- Time, the distance being estimated at six thousand miles, in or near Japan.

The shocks did not cease until 9 p.m. and so gevere were they that, despite the immense dia- tance, levers were thrown from their sockets and it was: În- possible to obtain a complete record-Reuter, enter th

Tokyo, March 3 An exceptionally severe earth- quake was felt. here nt 2.30 am. Tokyo Time. It is believed that only minor damage has been done.

Reuter.

Tokyo, March 3. Fifteen hundred houses have

been washed away by a tidal wave at Kamaishi, some two hundred miles to the north of Tokyo, following this morning's severe

HP ZA PENTHE ICE JE ZA earthquake.-Reuters

HITLER ATTACKS DEMOCRACY

A GENIUS TO SAVE

THE NATION

RECORDED HERE. The earthquake was recorded very clearly at the Royal Observa- tory, Hongkong, it being shown to be even more violent than that:

which in September, 1923, destroy- ed the greater part of Tollyo and Yokohama. It occurred, accord- ing to the Hongkong seismograph, time) yesterday. at 1.30 am. (Hongkong standard

IN THE PACIFIC.

movements of the

CHILD OF PEOPLE The proclamations have caused ing his aftitude-Our Specicla fresh shock and American de-

Berlin, Mar. 2. The longitudinal waves arrived. | Correspondent....

positors, are being increasingly An attack on democracy was at 17 hrs. 37 min. 15 Aecs.. panicky.

made by Herr Hiller, the

(Greenwich Mean Time), and the Peking, Mar. 2. Altogether over fifty million Chancellor, in the course of a transverse waves followed after (Special to "Telegraph")

(Special to "Telegraph”).

American citizens, living Defections greatly facilitated eighteen States are now affect-

widely-applauded speech which an interval of 5 min. 9 secs. This period of time indicates that the Talegraph, copyright Telegraphie the Japanese advance on Linged by

It was broadcast throughout Ger- epicentre, or place of origin, was (Telegrap Copyrione, Tangraphie Messages Ordinanco, 1294, Received. March

Reerivad, Marsh yuan. Sun Tien-ying, the ex follows that the crisis in these many to-day. 9. 1.JP ..)

about 2,100 miles distant from Kuominchun general, has defected States will influence dépositors in Peking, Mar. 3.

Herr Hitler said democracy Hongkong. to Manchukuo, while a battalion other States where moratoria have had never created values, which When addressing the Dutch Startling developments have oc- Parliament on rubber yesterday,curred in Jchol in the past twenty

of Tung Fu-ting's troops have also not been declared to get their was done by personalities whose the Minister for the Colonies did four hours and it is feared that not say, as first reported, that the Chinese forces are now in a from the Jehol fronts, claiming troops are preparing to make a possibly can, precipitating similar One genins could mean more for record imply the origin of the action was necessary, but that critical position, both Lingyuan that the Chinese forces staged a last stand, the failure of which

Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang's money out of the banks if they work democracy always destroyed. The first

the nation than milliards of capi- quake to be north-east of Hong- enution was necessary.

and Chihfeng having been forced, counter-attack on Lingyuan at six will mean complete success for the days, the Stock Exchanges at San

As a result of the bank holi-tal

kong, und this places the distur- The Minister was replying to owing to important defections, ac o'clock yesterday evening and Japanese-Manchukuo drive,

The Chancellor concluded by ance in the Pacific to the south question and he said that the cording to present Information. drove the invaders out of the vil-

Francisco, Cleveland, Detroit and declaring:-"I am not fighting, to of Japan. Government would be very pru-

Peking, Mar. 2. lage,

The maximum waves wore out- dent in the future in view of its

Official despatches were received the New Orleans Cotton Exchange save capitalism. I myself am a ATTACK ON REAR. later this evening stating that the have closed, while a number of child of the people. If you can side the recorded scope of the past experience,-Router.

The first of those defections took

At the same time, the Chinese Chinese counter-attacked at dusk, livestock markets in the agricul- prove that Marxism, by slaying Observatory's instruments,

tural centres are idle.

ten thousand people. can make a place at Taipingfang on the motor defenders who stayed on for some and beat back the Japanese from The Federal Reserve Bank has paradise on earth, I will turn a road between Chuoyang and Yeh-

(Continued on Page 7.) Marxist too. peehan, where the general com-time at Faishihtsumen, were re- Lingyuan, where a rearguard ne«

Meanwhile, the Government! manding a strategic sector went treating in the hope of linking up tion will be fought pending com-

measures against Communism ver to the Japanese on Wednes- with their own forces and came pletion of a strong last line forty-

are being rigorously enforced, but tay causing a collapse on the into contact with the rear of the five miles long from Pingehuan, Lingnan front.

Hattori detachment, being in

it is stated in a Hamburg new- superior force and compelling the

spaper that the Communist leader, Simultaneously, the Japanese Japanese to retreat in the direc-

Herr Ernst Thaelmann, has escap- "orces succeeded after heavy fight- tion of Chaoyang. The Chinese community in Lonng in turning the Chinese right The despatches claim that the ank, south of Paishihtsumen. Chinese forces are now again This almost impregnable outpost holding Lingnan, but mention vas isolated by the collapse of the heavy aerial bombardment of the efences on both sides, though it road between Lingyuan and Ping- The exiled community, though understood that the Chinese de- chuan. small, is determined to do its ut-fenders still occupy the Pass..

SUN TIEN-YING. most to help the Chinese forces

Still 'better news comes from

LOYAL LONDON CHINESE

FUNDS FOR JEHOL

FIGHTERS

...London, Mar. 2.

don is most anxiously following the news of Jehol events, as given in the newspapers and wireless

bulletins:

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1.

TOKYO'S CLAIMS

Tokyo, March 3.

A message from Lingyuan states that the Kawakara Van- guard is continuing its advance - and has occupied Feikung. It is expected that Pingchuan will be occupied shortly-Reuter.

on the Jehol front. Numbers of) FRESH TROOPS RUSHED.. Chihfeng. General Sun Tien-ying in the north-west, in Sutaokow, Immediately on receipt of the in a message received here to-

seamen and labourers, have band-

ed themselves together to contri- bute funds from their wages.

Tan line, Some seamen, earning only £2

a week, are contributing as much as ten shillings thereof to the funds.--Reuter.

ARMS EMBARGO SURPRISE

U.S. NOT INVITED

ABY BRITAIN

ews of the collapse of the Ling-night, denies that he has thrown along the heights, forty miles from Jehol City. The line will be the Chinese command in his lot with the Japanese and shed fresh troops from Ping-ngrerts that he is still holding manned by Marshal Chang Hsueh-

liang's trooos.-Reuter- ine, holding the heights above the has driven the invaders back to huan to reinforce the Lingyuan Chihfeng, He announced that he llage of Lingyuan, which has Fanghsien, twenty-five miles from fallen into the hands of the the entrance to the Pass, lainese.

OFFICIAL SIAMESE DENIAL:

Mr. J. T Bagram, Consul Tang Yu-lin has also taken oc- General for Siam in Hongkong, The Chinese intend to make a casion to deny rumours concern-has received the following messagy

stand n't Pinchuan thirtvifive miles from Chengichfu, where strong & defences have been

pro- pared.

CHIHFENG ALARM.

hone of the Chinese. If and when, it is taken, the only auestion in an orderly retreat through Kubelkou Pass in or- der not 10. disturb North Chian.

from Bangkok:

His Siamese Majesty's Govern-| ment" has fasued the following communique:-"It is the policy of His Majesty's Government to be neutral in the controversy between", Washington, Mar, 2. "Meanwhile, an extrémiely urave

{China and Japan regarding` Man- | Britain has not asked the tuation has arisen at Chibfen“.

churia. For this reason, its re- United States to join in her em-here the uncertain, attitude of

Owing to these drastic changes presentative at Geneva abstained bargo upon the export of arms General Sun Tien-vine, the former and ammunition to the Far East, Komin han commander, has com in the situation the feeling is from voting when the question came before the Assembly. declared. Mr. Castle, the Undur elled the Chinese command to is growing that the fate of the Rumours appearing in the Foreign throw out a defence line from province is scaled despite the Press that, le Majesty's Govern Secretary of State to-day, He added that the State Department Pingchuan to Butaokou a village gallant stand of Chang Hsuehment is acting, as an agent for had received any communica on the motor-road from Chengte-lang's own regulars in the face of Japan in the purchase of arms,

superiorly equipped invaders. Our or in any way siding” gnent avai tez.from Britain fu (Jahol City) to Chifeng..

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AMERICA'S NEW SPEAKER

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MR. H. T. RAINY APPOINTED

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ed to Copenhagen-Reuter,

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London, Mar. 2

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The weddings will shortly take North End, playing at home, de place between Dr. J. A. B. Selby,feated Grimsby Town by four Medical Department, residing at 2, goals to two.-Reuter.

Edna Beatrice Blackburn, 55, The

Washington, Mar. 2. Mr. Henry T. Ruiny, of Illinois, Thorpe Manor, May Road, and Miss has been elected Speaker of the Peak, and between Mr. Mario Cunjetti, which will replace the Posiedon in H.M.S. Kainbow, the now submarine House of Representatives, in suc-secretary to the Italian Consul in China waters, arrived at Port Swet- cession to Mr. Garner, the Vice- Hongkong, and Miss Helmi Mein, of tenham yesterday. She is due in: President,-Reuler.

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