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GARRISONS PREPARING

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FOR ACTION

THREAT TO FOREIGN

SHIPPING ROUTES

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Canton, Oct. 19. The presence of Japanese warships off the coast of south-west Kwangtung gives rise to the suspicion that Japan intends to seize Hainan Island and the Luchow Peninsula on the mainland, according to intelligence reports received here to-day.

Japanese occupation of these strategic parts of South China would interfere with foreign shipping, especially those marine routes between Europe and the Far East, it is acknowledged.

The Chinese garrisons in these two areas, and the shore batteries, have made every preparation to cope with the menace.

grounded

The Japanese aircraft carrier which was off Hopao Island on October 16 and 17 was refloated yesterday afternoon and is now in the vicinity of Tong- kawan. This explained the bombing at Sheklung this afternoon-International News Agency.

NANKING SEVERELY DAMAGED BY BOMBS

Nanking. Oct. 20.

The heaviest damage and casualties bombings which occurred

trom Japanese Nanking has yet suffered yesterday afternoon when Japanese, plates in attempting to bomb the) Pukow Ferry wharves, dropped eight missiles among the crowded. dwellings of railway workers Jabourers, killing eight and wounding

and

RUSSIANS, JAPANESE SKIRMISH

20-TON AIRLINERS FOR H.K.

Imperial Airways' Service Extension

13 Days Around

The World

Imperial Airways has an- nounced that giant 20-ton 24- passenger flying bouts will be itsel on the Alexandria- Singapore Hongkong service early next year.

It was originally intended to use these flying hosts on the Singapore- Austrada service. Owing to delays

in signing the agreement with the consequent delay in construction of

Australian Commonwealth, and the

seaplane, bases in Australia, it will not now be possible to commence. the service to Australin until 1030.

Singapore and Hongkong already have seaplane airports and, pending completion of bases in Austraila, Hongkong will be made the terminal for the service.

Until Australia is ready for the seaplanes, land planes will remain b use on the service from Singapore to Darwin. It will be necessary for seaplane bases to be constructed at Darwin, Normanton, Thursday Island, Bowen, Brisbane and Sydney, none of which at present has adequale

facilities, before the seaplane service con be extended to the Antipodes

. When these bases are completed, service will

OCTOBER 20, 1937. 七十月九

SEIZURE American Stock

GUARD BRITISH INTERESTS

Among the smartest of the troops of any nationality now in Shang- hat are the Royal Welch Fusillers, which are seen here marebing past General A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett. D.S.O., >L.C., senior officer in the International Settlement, in Bubbling. Well Road. These men have done much servlec on the Belllement border, and have several times been in positions close to actions and described as "very warm spals,"

DUKE OF WINDSOR

MAY VISIT H. K. IF

IF

the Imperial Airways SITUATION ALLOWS

be extended to New Zealand, laking

up there with the proposed Pan-

American service, to Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu and San Francisco. The two proposed services will complete an aerial chain around the 'Pacile Ocean, with Hongkong at the Far Eastern terminus for both Pan- American Airways and Imperial Airways.

Extension of the flying boat service to Hongkong will reduce the transit time to London to five days. It is poksible that Hongkong will see the first of the seaplanes on an experi- mental fight before the end of the year.

By Staff Correspondent

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will visit Hongkong next February or March, if the political situation in the Far East will permit them to do so.

It is possible that they may remain in this Colony for some considerable time.

Both have previously visited Hong- kong, the Duke when, as Prince of Siberia-Manchukuo When the new trans-Atlantic ser- Wales, he passed through here on his vice, run jaintly by Imperial Airways Duchess when her first husband was visit to Japan in 1922, and the Border Tension and Pan-American Airways,

U.S. Navy in with the started in December; the accelerated stationed

Eastern waters. service to this Colony will make t Shanghai, Oct, 20,

Duke and Information that the possible for a Hongkong traveller lo over 30 persons.

Skirmishes between

Soviet and tour around the world by air In 13 Duchess contemplate visiting the Far Over 100 houses were demolished Japanese troops have occurred on days, at a cost of only £500. Eust has been released by Mr.

the Siberian - Manchukuo border,

like his Randolph Churchill who, and a fire was started which raged about 80 miles south-cast of Chinese

It will take-

father. Mr. Winston Churchill, is Five-days-from Hongkong to

friend of the Duke. territory according to reports pub- for an hour.

clase Pandolph Churchill says evening Seven bombs fell in the Yangtselished by Chinese

papers

the Duke of Windsor has

decided and eight landed between wharves to-night.

never to return to England. He will No. 2 and No. 9, setting mony build-

shortly visit the United States, re- Ings alight. The Hslakwan ferry

maining there until February. From America the Duke and Duchess will wharf was not hit, 1 vever-Router.

proceed to Honolulu, and will return to Europe via the Far East. $10,000,000 For War

uke and Duchess will make The Duke an as yet unspecified European coun- try their permanent home, but they will spend a considerable portion of each year travelling. They may visit

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Risk Insurance

Nanking, Oct. 20.

order to facilitate exports and

London;

York;

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One day from London to New One day from New York to San The Japanese Kwantung Command Francisco; and

oracred its

not to troops

Five days from San Francisco to aggravate the situation owing. to the

Hongkong. unrest in Manchuria and the actvi- Wes of the volunteers. The border forces are instructed, however, to tako every precaution against Soviet Incursions.

Liberal Japanese statesmen, accord-'

Mistake May

ing to vernacular papers, recognize Lead America

to provide adequate protection for that the Soviet activities are due to

the movement of goods, the Ministry

wor

risk

of Flanner has appropriŝted a special fund of $10,000,000 for Insurance, it is learned here.

the heavy concentration of Japanese

troops in China proper.

The Tai Kung Pao,

influsalta) Chinese paper, quòled foreign sources In Peiping as saying that two The funds have been handed over divisions of Japanese troops in North

been Chino. China had Trust of

sent back to Manchuria, This is duc to the

to

the

Central

a subaldiary of the Central Bank of uprising of the irregulars and mutiny China, which will underwrite

war of some. Manchukuo troops, "who risk insurance policies. Central Netos allegedly

23 Universities Bombed

By Japanese

Nanking, Oct. 19..

A pokeman of the Ministry of Education Hold the Central News Agency to-day that 23 universities and technical colleges in China ·have been bombed by Japanese planes since the opening of hostilities - over two months ago. These institutions are located in Tientsin, Pooting, Nanking, Shanghai, Canton and Nanchang.

oflcers.

killed their Japanese

Into Warfare

Landon Criticisos Roosevelt For Declaration

New York, Oct. 19, "We are faced with a situs Some. Japanese army unlts Intion where the Proaldent may Tientsin arc being dispatched to make a mistake that would Manchuria. The Japanese version

Chinese :

Destroyers Rescue Prize Ship

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Mr.

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ROOSEVELT WON'T STOP TRADING

CANADIAN MARKETS CRASH IN SYMPATHY; "UNWAR- RANTED," PRESS SAYS

Hyde Park, NY,, Oct. 19: Fresident Roosevelt said he had no intention of -exercising his authority to close the New York Stock Exchange, according to official sources at the President's headquarters here,

At the press conference to-day President Roosevelt refused to discuss the present Wall Street slump.

The turn-over at to-day's session of the Stock

Canadian Reaction

Exchange totalled 7,290,000 shares-Rexter.

JAPANESE FEAR NO SANCTIONS

Fully Prepared To Fight Long War, Says Minister

Resources

Estimated

Under-

Toronto, Oct. 19. The crash of the Canadian stock markets, together with those of the United States, is viewed here US being unaccountable,

"Nothing in the trend of business warranted such a marked deprecia- tion in values," says the Toronto Star-Renter,

Slump Continues

New York, Oct. 19. Yesterday's plunge un Wall Street was followed at to-day's opening by un instant renewal of the downward movement, with opera- tions-in-the-first-hour-totalling 2,250,-

000 shares,

severe

Tokyo, Oct. 19. Interviewing Mr. Shinji

Nervous selling wus rite in the Yoshino, Japanese Minister of Commerce and Industry to-day, early feverish operations, with prices a United Press representative generally anything to G$10 down. asked what was the possibility

Subsequently the fall was halted of the Nine-Power or other con-

with a number of influential Invest- ferences imposing sanctions. CURFEW ABOLISHED "I think I shall keep very quiet

Mr. Yoshino smiled and replied:ment trusts turning to the buying

side,

At mid-day the market was on that point.".

"But the Ministry Commerce tremely erratle, but above the worst, forced on October 15 has been must have considered the possible with the trend moving chiefly rescinded, jadicating that the authori-effect of sanctions? he was asked. ties regard the situation as being "Yes". repiled the Minister.. "It upward.--Renter greatly improved.-Reuter's Special. has fully considered the effects of

AIR RAID ALARM

Jerusalem, Oct. 10. The curfew order which was en-

Later.

x-

In the curty aflenioon, Influential

possible sanctions.. I think Japan will be able to survive unscathed it sanctions are applied. The Occident heavy buying, largely by investment Canton, Oct. 20 (9,40 a.m.)

trasts, stemmed the slump, has greatly under-valued the na- The air raid siren awakened the tural resources of Japan, Korea, Australia for the Sydney sequl city at 4.30 this morning, heralding | Manchukuo and Formosa. Japan is market rallying 'briskly from

in 1938, Mr.the first Japanese night visitation in

several weeks.

centenial celebrations Churchill says.

The Duke and Duchess may be

bright moon

the

the

a vastly different nation compared day's lows, which unished with gains up to six points, avid losses up to five- with 20 years ago owing to her deve- favoured the

present she is trial technique. At

preceded to the Far East by Mr. and i Japanese pilots, but no planes visitedlopment of engineering and indus-points.

Mrs. Bedaux, close personal friends

Duchess. Mr. of the

and Mrs. Bedaux are the owners of the famous Chautenu de Conde, Monts, where the Duchesz remained until she became the wife of the former ruler of Great Britain, Mr. and Mrs. Bedaux,

who are now in the United States, an nounced recently that they were visiting the Far East, but it is possible that they may alter their plans in view of the present crisis.

AVOIDING PUBLICITY

Berlin, Oct. 10. The Duke of Windsor to-daý lạsued a slatement about his proposed visit to America.

Is that, the war in Noru: China is indeed be tragle, and might about to end and that there is no lead to war," declared Governor, necessity for such a vast army there. Alfred Landon, former preal-

International. News Agency,

dential candidate, in A specch broadcast to the United Sattes

He said the valit will be a purely privato to-day,

and unofficial: aftoli, and Criticising

President Roosevelt's added that the Duchess and himself recont declaration at Chicago, did not wish to be the subject of Governor Landon said the Presidents publicity. imputalva

The couple attended “quarter-backing"

a banquet readiness to assume the responsibiliYesterday given in their honour in of a one-man Government in Dresden, by the Governor of Saxony, To-day the visited a porcelain international""affairs, was far more dangerous than the same tendencies factory, at Melson, after which they in dealing with domestic affairs.

proceeded to Nuremberg-Reuler, Rightly they might ask how far President Hodsavell intended, to go. President Roosovell spoke quarantines, which meant economic sanction or a blockade.

Their experience with. Italy had proved the ineffectiveness of sanc- tions and that a blockade meant war. By the time the special session et

Rotterdam, Oct. 19. Congress was convened it was to be In the contest for the chess cham- hoped the President would have plonship title of the world, Dr. thought out what he proposed to do. Alekhine and Dr. Euwe have falah- Close observers had increasing doubts, ed the Brat six games on level terms. whether President Roosevelt had Both have won twice and the other thought his recent 'declaration | two games were left drawn-Reuter's

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Although the leading universities in Pelping have escaped, they have all been closed owing to the Japanese military occupation of the ancient capital.

The spokesman also disclosed that the Government had collected a number of proofs that Chinese teachers have been arrested and but some of them executed by the Japanese.

The Goverment is now investigat- Ing the number of middle schools and other educational institutiane which have bech destroyed by Japanese plance-Central - Neton.

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·Parla, Oct. 19,'.

It is reported that a French ear- ro steamer was seized on Sunday. ", by an Insurgent-warship off the +north coast að Giljon, and ordered. to proceed to the Spanish port, released upon the Intervention of French destroyers.

The ship, which, it is under infood, carried iron-ore from

Spanish Governmené port, there- upon resumed ; Her "fourney,-- Reuter.

of

ofther

CHESS WIZARDS “ALL SQUARE”

Canton.

To-day's scenes were reminiscent Mr. Yoshino reafirmed Premier of the panic in 1920. Hollow-eyed shortly after 9 am. Again no planes prince Konoye's assurance that for-clerks worked all night getting out were visible from the city-Heuter. eigners would be able to continue calls for additional margin, and the

A second alarm sounded at 8 almost self-sufficient, including war o'clock, but the "all clear" was given materials."

to trade with China, "After the

the wildest confusion-followed the open- termination of the military. opera- tions, belleve China's trade with ing of the Exchinge, brokers rushing other countries will naturally be re- to execute the flood of orders which habilitated. Jopan,has no intention of Interfering with foreign business and trade in China" he added.

were, pouring in from all parts of the country. Tickers were sa behind- hand that the authorities were forced to put out their stock prices on the bond tape-Router,

Federal Reserve Action Urged

Want Equal Treatment "All of the Japanese in Central and South Crino, with the exception of |Shanghai, evacuated at the outset of the present affair. We desire that the busineza

those. interests of Japanese should be restored as soon

Now York, Oct. 10, as possible after the termination of

It has been requested that, the the operations, and we also desire treatment for Japan equal to the Federal Reserve Board taka im- other countries, to replace the dis- criminatory treatment we have been mediate action to stop the decline in given by China."

securities, including an immediato Regarding Import restrictions, Mr. lowering of margin purchases and a Yoshino said obviously they were greatly increased margin on 'short | more interested in exports. He said (sales—United Press,

No Emergency

Washington, Oct. 19.

It is officially indicated that the

the Import regulations were merely an emergency mesture, and "in their application due regard will be taken relating to agreements with other countries. I do not think they

will mean a loss of the Japanese market Government is adverze to act in to foreign exports on the whole, be- | regard to the stock market “unless cause considerable exports will be there is on, embrgency,” which the made under the adjusted conditions." present conditions do not constitute.

Ample Finances

Regarding the "baseless rumours" |about Japan's finances, Mr. Yoshino

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Attention is drawn to the fact that business Condillons‘are good, though below last year, and it is reliably stated that the Federal · · Reserve (Continued on: Page 4.)