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Prlated and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN WYLIE æt i and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FOREIGN
INTERVENTION.
SOUGHT AT TIENTSIN
(Continued from Page 1.)
the Chinese City, many bring children. Wali Kiti Yat Po,
STILL LOYAL
+
SATURDAY,
Tram And Car Collide
Fortunate Escape
In Mishap
A
trutle accident involving H collision between a tram car and a
JULY 31, 1937.
GERMANY HOLDS RUSSIA SPOILS PEACE SCHEMES
(Continued from Page 1.)
given the status of a belligerent, then would delity withdrawing they volunteers indefinitely.
'Lord Plymouth suid it was essen- tial that the Committee agree to the co-relation in Ume of the granting of
Nanking, July 30, According to lutes! Information
military private motor car, which but for the belligerent rights and the withdrawal the local received by authorities to-day, the report of the fact that both vehleles were travell-of volunteers. He asked the Ger- surrender of the Pence Preservation ing at moderate speed might have man, Italian, Russian and Portuguese Corps along the Pelping-Sulyuan had serious consequences, occurred representatives to let him know whe- Railway to the Japanese is untrute at about 9.30 this morning in Queen's ther or not they agreed. All Peace Preservation Corps altach-
fload East, ed to the Hopel-Charhar Counell are still loyal to the Central Govern- meet.
A Government spokesman pointed out to-day that even the Peace Pre- servation Corps under pro-Japanese leader, Yen Yu-keng, have also declared their loyalty to the Central Government.-Wah Kiu Yat Po.
REVOLT AGAINST
JAPANESE
Nanking, July 30, According to reliable information renching here to-day, that the Peace Preservation Corps at Tungehow, which I still in the hands of the Japanese, la revolted against the Japanese troops in the city.
The Commander of the Peace Pre- servation Corps issued a manifest this morning declaring that "Chinese will not fight against Chinese.". 1fe then ordered n surprise attack on the Japanese troops, who resisted stub- bornly.-Wah Kiu Yot Po.
VARSITY DAMAGED
Tientsin, July 30.
Your
Japanese planes coneen- trated on barubing the Nauksi Uni- for the second Unic this versity afternoon. The library of the Uni- versity was struck by several incen- dlary bombs and caught fire. Other buildings of the University were iso
badly damaged by Japanese artillery fire from the Japanese barracks at
nikwangsultua Nan News.
SWATOW ORDER
Canton, July 30.
It is reported here that all Japan- es residents. In Swatow have been notified by the Japanese Consul there
evacuate that they should
before August 2.
He suggested the Committee should
NO MEETING CALLED
Londan, July 30.
Tram No. 52 was travelling from adjourn until a date next week while delegates get in touch with their cast to west when, just outside the Governments-Renter. R. A. O. C. Depat, private car No. direction, 913, guing in the same suddenly swerved into its path. The
It now appears that no further distance between the vehicles when the cur got on to the trainlines was meeting of the Non-Intervention so small that though the driver Committee's sub-committee, in whose applied his emergency broke there hands the British neutrality scheme was no possible chance of pulling up has been, has yet been summoned. and the tram hit the car, pulling herut it may be held some time next
| week.-Reuter. broadside on,
Damage was done to the rear and front mud-guards and rear tyre of the car and to the stepping-board und front part of the trom.
Was
a
REQUEST DECLINED
London, July 30. Declining the request of the Oppo- sition lender and Mr. Lloyd George
At the time the accident occurred that he should pledge the Govern- the tram wos full of passengers and ment to summon Parliament in any
The event before
belligerent these received a shaking-up.
Insurgents, the Fint two-seater rights the grunt of
the Spanish car, which is
being driven by a Foreign Secretary
ary made this state- coupe,
Commons European lady inent in the House of Chinese, with
adjournment debate to-day: "There passenger.
is n pledge I can give. So far as the present British plan before the Non- Intervention Committee is concern-
£
It is thought that the reason for the driver of the car swerving was that, in rounding the slight bend, he saw a few workmen in his way, There was no space to get past on the left, so as he was going rather! faster than the tram he thought he could get clear on the right.
NEW METHOD OF SPURIOUS COIN MANUFACTURE ROYAL MINT REQUEST FOR SECRECY ROPE ENTRY TO DEN IN LOFT
Omcials of the Royal Mint asked,
ed, we do not propose to agree to any major modifications of it,"
Twice before in the course of a declared speech, Mr. Eden short that the Brilish proposals for re- storing frontier control in Spain. securing the withdrawal of foreign nationals from the two armies and the grant of limited belligerent rights to the two parties must stand or fall as a whole. The British Govern- ment could not accept any modifica- tions which would upset the balance scheme. He emphasised, however, the desire and intention of His Majesty's Government to per- severe with the policy of non-inter- vention
Powers so long as other would co-operate.
of the
same
Mr. Eden confessed at the time that he found it difficult to see how, if the International Committee The evacuation order la generally
failed to reach agreement on the believed to be connected with the
British plan, the policy of non- declaration made by the Commander
If it of the Japanese Third Naval Squa- through the Common Serjeant (Mr: intervention could be saved.
that Japanese naval Ceell Whiteley, K.C.), at the Old inter
collapsed, that would create an en- dram to-day
in South Bailey recently that a new process tirely new situation, in which
the forces may take action Cina if the Central Government of making counterfeit colas should British attitude must depend on cir- cumstances and considerations they does not suppress the anti-Japanese not be disclosed in court.
could not now force. movement there.
Chinese
In troops Meanwhile Swalow and the immediate vicinity Instructions have received urgent from Canton ordering them to stand by and to report the movements of the Japanese warships off the coast. -Wah Kiu Yat Po.
VOLUNTEER OFFICERS
WIN SHOOT
They considered that their evi- dence with regard to the process
MAY CALL PARLIAMENT would not be in the public interest.
His Majesty's Government would Stephen Amos, aged 30, a fitter, of Clapton, was found guilty of uttering certainly, in such an event, desire to and consult with the French Government and making counterfeit coins
for coinage on the policy to be pursued. If, in apparatus possessing
His Majesty's Government's view, Sentence was postponed.
the situation was so serious as to Parlin- Mr. Patrick Deviln (prosecuting) warrant the summoning of said that observation was kept on ment, they would avail themselves Amos and other People because of the provision in the adjournment countertelt money was being passed motion enabling the Speaker to call at A greyhound stadium. Subse- the Commons in case of emergency. quently the police entered a garage But he-Mr. Eden-would not have which Amos rented at Goulton-road, them underate the desire of other Clapton, and in a loft they found nations to prevent the breakdown of certal machinery, copper foil, acids, non-intervention, and counterfelt mancy. There were no moulds.
"The process used was A
novel
The British Government, at any rate, contemplated no revolutionary change of policy. They would con- Omeers of the Hongkong Naval
tinue to work for the main objec- Volunteer Force yesterday afternoon and very ingenious one," counsel tives they had worked for all along continued an unbroken string of suc-added.
-localisation of the Spanish con- cesses when they beat the Royal Naval Dockyard Rifle Club on the Amos declared that he was asked flict and maintenance of
Cornby two men to rent a garote. The peace-British Wireless. miniature range on H.M.S.
men visited the garage about three, limes a week, and climbed into the loft by means of a repe, which they pulled up after them. He was for- bidden to enter. They had used him as a "catspaw."
flower, on 500 and 200 yard targets.
The following are the scores possible on each target):
R. N. Dockyard Rifle Club-
Watson
23
24
Cory
12
23
Lakeman
20
Peckham
Fainsbury Haig
H.K.N.V.F.---
Lt. Grenham
L1. Stevenson
L1, Vernall
REAGA
10
(25
Total--220
20
24
17
23
23
Sub. Lt. Ashby
23
ส
Sub. Lt. Merriman
18
25
Surgeon Lt. Mackie
24
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