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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30,
EMBASSY
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HAS NO ORDERS
Story Of Protest On Japan's Note
Is Incorrect
May Be Some Objection To Army Document
FEARFUL LOSS AT NANKING
Chinose Said To Have Lost 84,000 Dead In Battle
Shanghai, Dec. 30. Eighty-four thousand Chinese troops were killed and an Un known number, belioved to be great, were wounded in the
defence of Nanking, according to a communique from General Matsui's headquarters.
The communique places the Japan-
WALL STREET REVIVES
President's Speech Causes Recovery
Monoplies Still Under Fire
New York, Dec. 29. President Roosevelt's hint of
increased naval building served to drag the Wall Street stock market from yesterday's de-
ing, all leading issues advanced from one to thrée points, Steels, and Aircraft leading the rise.
London, Dec. 20, Reports that, Sir Robert Craigie, informed Mr. Koki Hirota, the Japan at 800 killed and 4,000 wounded. It British Ambassador to Tokyo, sese casualties In capturing the city pression and with spirited buy- es Foreign Minister, that the Japanese reply to the British Note say that the Japanese forces took concerning the shelling of 11.M.S. 10,500 prisoners. Ladybird and H.M.S. Bee was un- It adds that the war booty Included satisfactory, are authoritatively des- 120,900 rifles, 3,200 machine guns, cribed as Incorrect. No instructions 200 trench mortars and howitzers, 40 concerning the reply have yet beenfeld and mountain guns, 40 anti- aircraft guns, 110 heavy guns, ter sent to Sir Robert.
The reports have possibly arisentanks, three locomotives and 60 from confusion with n statement railway ears-Reuter, Issued by the Japanese military authorities regarding the Ladybird incident. It is understood Sir Robert Craigie may have raised objection to certain passages in the statement, But the military statement is entirely separate from the formal Japanese reply.
The full text of the Japanese milltary statement has not yet
reached London-Reuter.
BIG BATTLE EXPECTED
Gibraltar, Dec, 29.
A big battle on the southern
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tense Insurgent
activity between
Cadiz, Tarifa. San Roque and Malaga, and observed by British visitors to Spain during the week- enil.
It is understood this is the sequel to confidential Information received by the Insurgents at Malaga that the Government authorities had already concentrated some 30,000 intitiamen with tanks and artillery, apparently preparing a counter-attack against
the bit offensive from Malaga which the Insurgents have been contem- plating-Reuter's Special,
Closing Japan Dance Halls
Tokyo, Dec. 30.
Admiral Suctsugu, Japan's new ultra-Nationalist Home Minister, has ordered all dance halls in Japan to close from April next as part of a "crusade
10 mobilise 11 national
spirit."
Admiral Suelsugu regards dance tails as a "baneful influence on the public mind, a definite threat to good morals, and us a menace to manners whleh are peculiarly Japan's own.”----- Reuter.
PLANS TO AID WAR RELIEF
Hankow, Dec. 30.
· Mr. Lin Kang-hou, President of the Associated Chambers of Com- merce in China, whose name is re- ported to have appeared on a list of so-called “puppets", in Shanghai, has arrived here.
'
He told interviewers that he would not join any regime set up by the Japanese. Instead, he is devoting tiimself to war relief work, and remaining in Central China.
Mr. Lin believes the monetary structure of China to be firm.-.
United Presa.
TEMPERATURE DROPS
A drop of three degrees in the temperature, compared with yester- day's figure of 60, was recorded by the Royal Observatory at 10 am, 10- day.
The weather report states that the anti-cyclone is stationary over China, Manchuria and South Japan; it has Increased in intensity and pressure is highest to the north of the Yangtszc Valley A deep depression is situated over the Kurile Islands,
Local forecast.-North-east winds, fresh; cloudy, probably some drizzle or light rain.
Doesn't Like British Reply To Propaganda
ON
Romo, Dec. 20. Referring to the BBC. broad- cast of nerve in Arabic - January 4, Bignor Virgiulo Gayda the Italian Journalist has pro- tested that the Italian broadcast from Bari in not anti-Britsha,
The programme proves, be mys, that the broadcast was only a reply to the polley of sanotions advocated by Belilah and any anil-British propaganda was only apotallation for attacks Italy, not only by propaganda. but by other means--Reuter,
STOP PRESS
FRESH TROOPS
FOR GUAM
San Francisco, Dec. 29. The US.S. Chaumont will sat January 5 with 000 soldiers to re- place a portion of the troops now in Guam and will also curry Comman- der James T. Alexander, the new Governor of Guam.-United Press.
Traders generally are inclined to
into President read
Roosevelt's Indication that the statement un Government night be resuming "pump-priming" Retivities In the shape of assistance to heavy industries with resulting all-round benefleial effects to Industry.
Assistant Attorney-General Jack- son's speech hus enused indignation, but has had little apparent effect on the market--Reuter,
ATTACK ON MONOPOLIES
New York, Dec. 29. The attack on American monopolies begun by Assistant Attorney-General Jacknun was continued to-day, when Mr. Jackson was joined by Mr. D. C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, and Mr. Homer S. Cummings, Attorney- General.
Mr. Roper declared there were good and bad monopolles; and since they were concerned with the good of business itself, an. well as The consumers and the Government, and they must be curbed.
wus
Mr. Cummings declared that the existing
Anti-Trust Law inadequate and that additional ap- propriations were needed' to enable the Department of Justice to fight monopolistic practices.--Reuter.
JACKSON HITS OUT
Philadelphin, Dec. 29. Attacking monopolistle practices, Assistant Attorney-General Juckson, in a specch to-day, accused "Big Business" of going on strike against the Government in an effort to liquidate the New Deal" and of seizing the current recession cudgel to whack concessions out of the Government.
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Mr. Jackson asserted that the Gov- ernment's recovery programme had restored profits to business and the only criticism of the New Deal as on economic programme was that it did not do enough to guard recovery from the rnica at the monopolist.- Reuter.
IMPROVED SENTIMENT
New York, Dec. 29. The New York Stock Exchange staged a moderate recovery to-day.
The recovery was partially attrl- buted to short covering, although there was a generally improved senti- ment as traders ignored the adverse
news,
The Assistant Attorney General's relteration of complaints against trust manipulation hud a bearish influence, but this was offset to some extent by the Secretary of Commerce stating that it is the Government's duty to safeguard the "proft motive,"
There was considerably less tax selling, and Increased buying
ap peared late in the session,
Competent observers express the opinion that the public will resume buying in the New Year and will favour armament issues and stocks related thereto, in the belief that the Government is planning further armament expenditures.
The Curb Exchange was moderately nellve with prices irregular, while the Bond market was irregularly
lower and fairly active, with United States issues lower.-United Press.
DULL MARKET
London, Dec. 20.
In the continued absence of busi- ness and the weak overnight Wall Street, a dull tone was Imparted to the London Stock Exchange to-day, though there was ille actual selling. Some sections finally developed slightly steadler influences.
Commodiles, cotton, rubber, copra and base metals were casler in sym- pathy with the overnight set-back from America,
on
The French frane weakened nervous selling caused by to-day's strike in Paris-Reuter's Special.
Italian Sets New Record On Sea Hop
Pernambuco, Dec. 29,
Blanor Bloppani, the Italian aviator attempting A record "straight line" flight from Italy to Lalin-America, pamed over Pernambuco, heading for Buenos Aires
Later Hanis reported that Stoppand had Innded at 3.04 p.m. at Caravellas in Brasil after covering about 2,100 kilometres in 27 hours 24 minutes, thus beating the long-distance sen- plane record of 8,771 kliometres. established by a French sonplane piloted by Lieut. Devalmesukom,,
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