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BATTLE FOR NANTAO COMMENCES

Japanese Threaten Naval Bombardment

CHINESE APPEAR DETERMINED.

TO RESIST SUPERIOR

FORCES

Few Thousand Men Dig In And Await Inevitable Shelling

Shanghai, Nov. 10.

across the Zahwei Creek, Machine-gun fire has broken out indicating the start of the Japanese offensive against Nantao.

Meanwhile Japanese planes left for the major fronts, and bombing is audible.-United Press.

DESPERATE FIGHTING OPENS

Shanghai, Nov. 10, Desperate fighting has started on the southern border of French Concession along the Zahwei Creek and Siccawei Creek.

French troops and police are lining the north bank of the Siccawei Creek and tens of thousands of Chinese refugees are packed into French Concession streets running north from the creek, watching the Japanese. tanks exchanging furious fires with Chinese posts.

Shanghai presents a most appalling picture of misery

as refugees, many wounded and all homeless and

OMINOUS WARNING

Shanghai, Nov. 10,

The Japanese authorkles have warned nou-combatants in Nan- lan to evacuate as the Japanese army and navy will begin "Mapping up' operations th afternoon.

The warning is believed to herald land and naval shelling and air bunbing-Reuter.

SERVANT OF ENGLAND

FORMER Expect Fresh

PREMIER

IS DEAD

Ramsay MacDonald Dies On Way To South America

CAREER OF

COURAGE

London, Nov. 10. The Rt. Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald, P.C.. & former Prime Minister of England, died at sen yesterday en route to South America on a health trip.

Mr. MacDonald sailed on Novem- ber 4 aboard the liner Reina del Pacifico, accompanied by his daugh ter Sherlo, and bad planned a three months' cruise.

The news of his passing reached England by radio, addressed to h son-in-law, Dr. Mackinnon, who told | iteater that he presumed death was due to heart tollure.

of

Demand 'For

Old Colonies

London. Nov. D. Following his diplomatic vic- tory in persuading Italy to sign the anti-Communist Parl, Herr Adolf Hitler, the German Dieta- tor, is reparted to be preparing to ask Britain soon to miscuss his repeated demands for colonies In Africa, There

are some indications that Bellan may consent to a return of certain colonies, provided con- cursions in this direction will bring guarantees calculated to contribute to Europesa prace. United Press.

Inquiry Fixes Cause Of Fire At Sea

Gasolene Vapour Ignited; Flash

Caused Explosion ·

HAITIANS MASSACRED

Grave Allegation Against Police Of Dominica

Complaint Taken To Washington

Washington, Nov. 9. Arriving for a conference with the State Department, the Haitian Ministers Mr. George S. Leger and Mr. Elle Le Cot asserted to-day that the latest Information in his possess- ion was that 3,000 Huitians had been slain on Dominican soil and thist passibly anal compilations would show the denth rull to exeted 5,000.

Mr. Leger said that a purportedly accurate report claimed 1,200 Haitian labourers in the Dominican Republic were "mowed down to tran by machine-guna h the Dajahon area.

"Later," he

"Dominican charged, police visited the homes of Heitlang In the Dominican Republie and clubbed to deaths scores."

The representative of Haiti denied that the friction between his coun- try and the Dominicans was isolated trouble frontier and asserted the

extended from Dajabon to Monte Province. He

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to

Cibao

Haitlaris. hud

Dominican lands-United

That gasolene vapour found its way from No. 2 hold to the stokehold and was ignited when the fires were being cleaned, was the finding this denied reports that morning of the Marine Court of In-occupied quiry into the

Press. burning and loss ol the s.s. Kallangata, on October 26.

The Court was unable to say de. how the vapour arrived in the stokehold but held there was Anitely reasonable supposition that it leaked through the wooden fore hulkhead of the cross bunker.

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The finding of the Court was: "The 8.8. Kaitangata. Oficial Number 125,025, was on a voyage from Hong- kong to Haiphong with a cargo 25,342 cases of aviation spirit and 805 cases of lubricating oil.

"The ship left Hongkong at 5.47 a.m. on October 24 and experienced light north-easterly winds

Fight Fire On Borders Of Shanghai

French Troops'

The body has been embalmed and is going on to Bermuda.-Reuter,

the Mr. MacDonald,

first Socialist Premier of Britain, was 71 years of age. Only last week- he sailed from England for South America, accompanied by his daughter Sheila, In an effort to recuperate from ill health.

James Ramsay MacDonald, the La- baur statesman, was born at Lossie mouth, Scotland, in 1866, as the son

farm labourer. He became a MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD pupil-teacher and then went penn

less to London where he

climbed The former Prime Minister of trem one -paki job to another and some recognition Great Britain, disowned by the After four years as private secretary slight swell,

gradually Labour Party which he led to its to Mr. T. Lough, the Liberal M.P., he “On October 25, when in a post- first great victory in British went in for journalism. Meanwhile

Shunghai, Nov. 10. politics, who refused all honours he had joined the Fabian Society and in Lat, 21 10 North, Long. 112 0

Fire consumed in half an hour to- from a grateful country at the in Jan. 1893, was one of the founders East, a violent explosion occurred in

In No. 2. hold at a few minutes of the Independent Labour party. In

day a large Chinese spinning mill pa

vour Representation Committee;

-fluimus-sprend-raphilly-and-ex- the south bank of Slecawei Creek at "Creek, working it up to an important body plosions occurred in other holds and the confluence of Zühwei

one of bis greatest achievements. the ship was eventually abandoned The heat was blistering to French In 1900 he was elected M.P. for Lel- and sank with a toss of 18 Chinese nembers of the crew; another mem- cester,

died ber of the crew subsequently ARDENT PACIFIST

trom joluries received.

CARGO WELL STOWED "The cargo

tarpaulins

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destitute, wander aimlessly through the French Conces- STOP PRESS time of his retirement, died at 1800, ine became secrctury to the Las mid-night.

sion and International Settlement-Renter.

Japanese Attack

Shanghai, Nov. 10 (9.30 a.m.). The Japanese offensive opened this morning when two tanks suddenly rumbled along the length of the road on the south bank of Zahwei Creek, and arrived at the confluence of the Zabwel and Steenwel creeks, where the Chinese had turned the bridge over the Zahwel last night,

The lanks opened & inurderous fre on the Chinese redoubts and Chinese machine-guna replied. For several minutes there was a very hol duel then the tanks retreated, But the company of Japanese infantry which followed dodied behind the spinning mill which was burned last night, and how command the creek cross- Ing as well as the approaches to the redoubts.

Pressmen who watched from a van- noted 100 yards away tage point that many Japanese planes were dis- appearing towards Taingpu. There was no bombing of Nantao.

Safe Conduct For Refugees

Brave Baron Drives Off Invaders

Finds Japanese In Looted Home

See Hungjao Road

First To

Shanghai, Nov. 18.

The Swedish Minister.

NANTAO-EITHER GRIM TRAGEDY OR FARCE

sen gesterday.

Settlement Remains Sanctuary

No Increase In Influence Of Japan Admitted

Shanghui, Nov. 10. The sudden change in the military situation around Shanghai will not Shanghai Municipal prompt the Council Jo change its original aim of making the international Settlement

At the beginning of the war he re- of the signed the chairmanship

after

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Heroic Part

firemen who 100 feet away on the north bank sprayed Junks, which were massed in the Slecawei Creek. to prevent them from catching alight and transferring the binze to the crowded Chinese dwellings on the

Labour party, denouncing the Goy- well stawed, hatch have been south edge of French Concession.

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were covered and ventilators

ernment for having blundered into with

Rehind Chinese sandbags at the the confilet. Fits action

cust end of the burning bridge, troops pro- | plugged,

chailed and watched the fire, while bably rength in the country.

"We are of the opinion that ga 200 yards west of the due to miscalculation of

south bank lene vapour found its way from No.fires started in houses destroyed by WID then that

with ED2 hold to the stokehold and was the Japanese outposts. Morel he founded the Union of

alon ofnited when the fres' were being

French troops

yesterday Democratic Control. He tried to pro- cleaned,

rushed afternoon in Inn. vent the Labour conference

are unable to say definitely bank dragged refugees and wound- 1016, from pledging itself to support how the vapour arrived in the stoked Chinese soldiers to the safety the prosecution of the war, while de hold but there is a reasonable, sup-

the of the French Concession--many claring himself strongly anti-German. position that it leaked through

who

to the

south

in 1917, however, he attempted in wooden fore bulkhead of the cross only a few minutes before the ap vain to promote a Socialist conference bunker,

pearance of the Japanese vanguard- thence through

her at Stockholm to include German re-bunker and the water-tight doors in and are now patrolling r presentatives,

Shanghai, Nov. 10.

In his book "Ten Years of Secret the stokehold bulkhead. curtain

Diplomacy" (1015) he stated that he The Japanese threat is

Cheung Chau

Fire Leaves 100 Homeless

"In these circumstances

the

erogs

recom-

are rumbling buck and

metically barbed-wire bunk. Armour- con-ed cars we

from which the vapour originated may have taken place resulting in the first explosion in No. 2 hold.

"We make the following mendation: That when low-flash in- flammable liquids are stowed under hatches, they should only be carried in compartments, the bulkheads of without which are gas tight and openings and such cargo should not be adjacent to the boiler room."

the Hun. The Court comprised Comdr.

Yellow River Flood Threat

Baron raiser either for a grim drama or a place of refuge for Chinese and considered the Moroccan policy of Bider that a-flash-back to the source forth on the look-out-United Press. Jolin Beck-Frils, former Counsellor farce.

foreign residents, dectored a France and Britain one of the chief of the Legation at Washington, visit- The armed Chinese forces in Counell official to the China Prena

(Continned on Page 4.) ed his residence ni 244 Hungju

Nantao can escape any time they to-day. Rond, and found the house partly wish by laying down their arms and He added that Chinese newspapers footed, the desk being ransacked, the entering the French Concession and public organisations would con- bureau and drawers emptied and where they will be placed in

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continue to have their customary status the wine cellar too.

centration comps for the duration of so long as their activities were com- Meanwhile, coolies, farm women

He said the damage was probably the hostilities. They could also crosspatible with law and order. and old men were locking across the

The official emphatically denied Siccawel Creek bridges 200 yards be- due to the occupation of the recent the Whangnoo to Poolung which hind the Japanese front, calmly lug-by departed Chinese soldiers, whose hitherto has not been occupied by Japanese report that "In view of the

When bedding remained in the house, Japanese forces.

Increased Japanese influence in the ging their effects with them.

When the Minister arrived he But the real tragedy of the sectors north of Soochow Creek, the the Brat company of Japanese he found some Japanese soldiers in situation will be the destruction

the

of Council is contemplating an increuse peared a quarter of a mile down

outside. of the Nantao, for which the Japanese con in the number of Japanese officials road, the coolles dropped their loads side, and others

No such an in- and ran. When they saw the Japan-house curiously examining a book now claim fuli justification-Reuter, on the Council."

crease, he said. hind ever been dis- ese were not shooting they picked up They evacuated the house upon his

cussed since the outbreak demand,

of the their burdens and gingerly threaded

The Minister is probably the only the

hostilities.Reuter. thele way through the infantry to bridge. One entire farmyard pussed foreign resideat

Visit unscathed, the father driving a mon- Road since the Japanese occupation. ster Row, the mother being loaded ife made his way on foot from Siccu- with chickens and the sona pushing'a wel, passing numerous bodies of cart filed with yearling pigs, and a dead Chinese soldiers and civiliams, basicet of sucking

and one dead Japanese soldier,

to

Hungian

The Chinese at Nantao, apparently Other foreigners residences in the comprise fragments of several divvicinity have nultereil apparently slons. Several told the French police little, external domuge. The extent with whom they chatted across the at the looting barbed wire burriending of one of the Untied Press. bridgea that they were determined to fight to the last.

is undetermined.

BRITISHI EXCHEQUER SHOWS HEAVY EXPENDITURE

Half a mile beyond the Japanese lino a Japanese, officer approached a French officer on the middle of the bridge and borrowed his field glosses. River coolles dozed peacefully in ihelr sampans in the sunlight.-total ordinary United Press.

Japanese Navy To Bombard Nantao

Shanghel, Nov. 10. (10,80 a.m.) A Japanese military spokesman

(Continued on Page 4)

London, Nov. 9. Exchequer returns show that the revenue amounts to £380,885,981 compared with £300,- 204,720 at the corresponding date: Inst year.

The total expenditure, less sell- balancing

Rems is £310,084,705 compared with £473,082,157 at the corresponding date In 1030-Briti Wireless,

WOUNDED. DIPLOMAT TO REST

Shanghai, Nov. 10,

72 Dwellings Are Destroyed In Early Blaze

Sixty putaheds, used as dwellings by poorer people, and 12 brick-houses on Cheung Chau Island, wero destroy- ed by fire which broke ont ni 4 nm. to-day near to the pler which serves the file settlement. About 100 are homeless.

No. 2 Fire Float from Hongkong reached the scene 30 minutes after

J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N (retd), Acting Harbour Master (Pre- sident), Lieut-Comdr. M. V. Keogh, H.H., H. M. Naval Dockyard. Mr. W. O. Lambert, Government Marine Surveyor, Capt. C. Asquith, master of the s.s. Scalaria, and Capt. N. Hardle, master of tho s... Kingyùarı.

Shanghai, Nov. 10. The Liternallonal Famine Re-. llef Committee has stated that Yellow River floods are threa- tening greatly to exceed those of 1935, this being partly due to the breaking of the dykes by (ne Japanese.

The 1935 foods cost thousand of lives and millions in money. -United Press.

DUKE OF WINDSOR MAY VISIT U.S. AFTER XMAS

· Paris, Nov. 9. English friends have stated that the Duke and Duchess of It is understood that Sir Hught the alarm was rounded here, in Windsor plan a several weeks tour of the United States imme- Knatchbull-Hagessen, the British Am- charge of Superintendent J. C. Pite diately after Christmas, after which they will go to Honolulu. bassador to China, acting on medien! Henry. ndvice, hus postponed his return to The Cheung Chau fire-fubtera There will be no attempt to study would be hampered by unfavourable

weather. China, and is not expected to resume with their small equipment, had housing and fudustrial conditions..

It is expected he will make public duties before the end of the year. | struggled bravely to check the fre,

If he Mir, Douglas MacKillop, lately but it tool four hours

It is said the Duke has weighed all his decision in a fortnight. of further Counsellor at the British Embassy in battling, from land and sen, to finally considerations, studied the New York resumes his studies it will be in the Moscow, in arriving shortly to take quench the flames after the fire and Washington cables, consulted his spring or the summer, after the re- over the duties of Counsellor at the bont's arrival.

friends in Faria and London, and has turn from Honolulu.

Mr. Charles fledenux, and anyona Nanking Embassy.

Numbers of animals were burned decided to drop the Industrial inspec- Meanwhile, Mr. R. G. Howe is re-to death but there were no humen tlon to allow the present furore to elas likely to innke Labour and other Secondly, the investigation, groups hosille In America, will not maining an Charge d'Affaires.— casualties. Only the brick dwellings subside,

were insured.

especially in the north end mid-went, ponnor the trip-United PrOSE. Reuter.