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URGED FOR FAR EAST COLONIES

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1938.

TELEGRAPH.

TERUEL FIGHTING

London. Jan. 10. Speaking at a Royal Empire Society dinner to-night, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore, said that he wished that British Colonial administrators would see the work of the Dutch, while the Dutch administrators at Sumatra night visit Motoya.

International schemes for rubber, sugar and tin could not be continued for a day, he added, willout the co- operation of the Dutch and the British.

Sir Cecil Clementi, former Gover- nor of Hongkong and of Malaya, endorsed Mr. Ormsby-Gore's sug- gestions, and hoped that officials of¦ the Netherlands East Indies would visit Malnya and vice Versa. Reuter.

TOKYO TO IGNORE NANKING

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to recognise the Pelplog Government as soon as the organilsafton had been perfected.--United Press.

Emperor Sees Speech For Diet Opening

Tokyo, Jan. 10.

Mr. Hirota, the Japanese Foreign Minister yesterday delivered to the throne the substance of the speech which he is to deliver to the Diet when he re-opens on January 22.- United Press.

Parliamentary System

Needs Reforming

Tokyo, Jan. 19. Mr. Hirota has instructed Mr. Ambassador In Kawagoe, Japan's China to conclude his business affairs

and to return,

PERSISTS

London, Jan. 10. Fighting around Teruel has begun again.

Insurgent forces, heavily backed by aircraft, are vigorously attocking the Government positions, and the Gov- ernment has admitted that it has had to concede some ground.

The Insurgents clalm that their troops have captured two important points which have been held by the Government forces for over a year Reuter,

British M.P.s

Have Narrow

Escape In Spain

Madrid, Jan. 18.

A party of British Members of Parliament now touring Spain nare rowly escaped injury during an air raid on Valencia, the Spunish Government's capitul, according to a report from a Spanish official "news agency.

The Fald occurred in the centre of the city while the party was driving to a war training school. One of the cars was hit by a bomb, but the Occupants miraculously escuped in- Jury-Reuter.

United Ireland Is Shelved For Time Being

Latidos, Jan. 18. It is reliably stated that the

English and Irish delegates at the Anglo-Eire conference harmoniously agreed to shelve the question of a United Ireland for the present, thus permitting further discussions re Prince Konove, In a statement to-garding defence and trade which

the real motives of day, admitted that the parliamentary constitute system needed reform. However meeting-United Press. regarding the proposal for a single Government party, he said personally

ho possessed neither the time nor the strength

become President.--

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Japanese Press Views

Tokyo, Jan. 19.

An exchange of views is reported have taken place at Cabinet meeting yesterday concerning the dale of Japan's recognition of the "Pro- vincini government" at Felping.

An agreement has been reached, ne- cording to the Yomiuri Shimbun, that Japan should extend formal recogni tion to the new regime "when it be comes stronger and more stable in form and substance."

the

STOP PRESS

The Hochi Shimbun, contmunting KWANGTUNG PEASANTS

on the Japanese repudiation of the Central Government states that "the chance has gone for ever for a re- between sumption of negotiations -Japan-and-the-Central Government, now that Japan has refused further dealings with the latter.”

The Hochi Shimbun predicts that "if the Central Government of Chin reconsiders its attitude it may possi-

PREPARE FOR DEFENCE

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South China's intention to resist ample confirmation by the important Japan to the bitter end receives People's Defence Corps which is be coming actively formed throughout

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Hsiung Sisters In Hongkong

Those interested in the beauties of Chinese painting will be pleased to learn of the opening of a private school for the instruction of students in the dellente technique of this art The teachers fre the three charming Halung sisters-Pi-shuang, Yau-shuang and Pel-shuang-a trio of Cantonese artists who have achieved recognition throughout China for the studied excellence et their paintings..

The young ladies have exhibited examples of their accomplished Versaillity at Macao, Shanghul, Nanking und In Hongkong. The lust exhibition of their work was held it the St. Francis Hotel here only last month, the proceeds of the sale being devoted to the "enuse of China's national salvation. It was the inten- tion of the sisters to go to Europe and America to study western art, but owing to the circumstances of the present Sino-Japanese conflict, their trip has been indefinitely postponed.

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Shanghai, Jan. 18. Two Japanese officers were killed, two seriously injured and another slightly injured by a bomb explosion at the station of the Nanking-Shang- hai Raway near the headquarters of the Japanese command at Hsla. kwon, Nanking last night.

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of the Shanghai-Nanking Hallway nearby for refuge, but five minutes later more explosions were heard. The detonations were TO loud that all the window panes in the waiting room were shattered.

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Tokyo Newspaper Gives Figures ITALIAN EXPLOSIVES

Tokyo, Jan 18. Japanese papers give figures of Imports of war material to China, through Hongkong which passed

station after the explosion and the three Injured officers were taken to a hospital in the city for treatment. for A vigorous search

BY MR. P. CHEN the bomb thro

only throwers, whose traces were the bomb shrapnel.

rac

the "The armed might of the Chinese was thrown around cordon station, and any one entering there People is China's best weapon. An was questioned.

in the rational salvation war which Martial law was declared last is now being waged with all the

The Hongkong correspondent of farmers and peasants the use of arms

was still in force this morning. The is the only outcome whereupon the names of the dead and wounded sword of righteousness and honour one Tokyo paper states that supplies 54 planes, hundreds of in order to defend themselves should Japanese officers were not. revealed can be sheathed." These significant included occasion, which at present is doubted, International.

cases of motor car parts, 4,500 tons most re- words by one of China's Golute leaders, the son of the late of explosive, 2,500 tons of rifles and Of the 4,500 tons of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, are the closing machine guns, sentences of the foreword written by explosives, 2,000 came from Italy-

bly be merged with the new regime Kwangtung, with a view to teaching/ night after the bomb incident and fury of an enraged people, victory during the past two months.

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at Peking', which is now represented

the provincial government." Reuter,

Six Dead In Montreal School Fire

Montreal, Jan. 18. Six young lives have been lost in a fire which destroyed . a boarding school in Montreal fast night.

Further casualties are feared. In addition to the dead, twenty have been injured. One serious hospital case has since died.

The school was one of the larger boarding institutions the city, and

at the time the fire occurred had over 100 scholars and teachers sleeping in the building, which was razed to the graund.-Reuter,

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RANGOON STRIKE

OIL WORKERS WANT WAGES MONTHLY

Rangoon, Jan. 19.

A number of labourers on a Burmah

Oil Company estate near Rongoon have gone on strike in sympathy with other striking employees of the company in another district.

The labourers are demanding that they should be paid on a monthly basis instead of weekly, as hitherlo. They also demand 33 days holiday with pay each year,

The situation is ut present quiet, pending negotiations-Reuter.

JEWS FOR ETHIOPIA

Bucharest, Jan. 18,

A number of Roumanian Jews have expressed the wish to immigrate to Abyssinia, and have requested the Italian consulate to provide the neces- sary facilities Pet

The Hallan Consul has declared that he must receive instructions from Leme before lasking, visbos, Neuter,

ever arise.

Gatl

Commanders of the Corps took the of office on January 17 before General Yu Han-mow, Governor Wa Teh-chin and Mayor Tseng Yang-fu. General Tsai Ting-kal and Generul Chlang Kwang-nul," "former leaders of the 19th Route Army are also cum- manders of the huge People's Self Defence Corps.---Reuter.

SOVIET AND JAPAN

Leader Urges Stronger Attitude By Russia

De Sun Fo to the book by Mr. Reuter Bulletin.

Percy Chen on the present hostilitics between China and Japan.

Interviewed

Hsuchow, the Im- publications of "The

concerning the the capture of

of the Sino-Japanese

portant railway junction War, 1937" Mr. Percy Chen sald, "Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow Rall- found in my contacts in Shanghal ways, the Japanese High Command and would advance simultaneously from * Moscow, Jan. 18. with foreign newspaper men Mr. Andrei Zhadanov,

writers, that on account of the lack the north and the south along the Chairman Wa

unable to latter railway." they were

However, Affairs Committee of material of the Foreign

we And forces, under told the Soviet Supreme Council to contribute much in the way of what that the northern

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corres-General Terauchi, crossed the Yel- day that the Commissariat on Journalista know Foreign Affairs must be more deter pondence." In their brief accounts of low River, advanced on Trinan and of this. town' or that are now locked in a mighty battle in mined in regard to the provocation the capture by the Japanese

Manchukuoan there was lacking a cohesion in the the lake region south of Yenchow. are on their flanks, agents. We demand that the Com- detalls presented, with the result Our guerillas

war situation, be-- and large forces of Chinese regulars missariat take immediate steps to end that the general

of hooliganism on the part of these tween

in the mountains and Japan seemed are supreme

retreals, and Shantung south

Tainan- of the Japanese agents."-United Press.

The speaker, no doubt refers to skirmishes. This was not the case. Tsingtao Railway.

southern forces. The Japanese the detention by the Manchukuoan The Japanese tried to fight the war authorities of a Soviet acroplane according to the plan of the younger under General Matrul are still 250

This plan miles away. They which had to make a forced landing Kwantung militarists.

are being held in Manchukuo some days ago.

was grandiose, ambitious, reckless, and beaten by the splendid troops and therefore it has resulted in com- under the command of General Hu plete failure. The Chinese war plan Tsung-nan, a Aghting general gra- is unfolding itself slowly and some-duate of the Canton Whampac Milli- times painfully, But to the in-tary Academy,

One may ask why the Japanese structed military observer, there is

DIPLOMAT'S RECALL

China

advances, isolated

Ambassadors To Return no doubt that we possess the initia High Command fight an important.

for. Hauchow without

tive in

that in being able to force the Ja- battle as panese to fight in places that we waiting for Matsu's troops to be select. That this is true will be able to participate in a manner that seen from the campaign in Shansi, would, be decisive. The answer is

book, which is fully dealt with in my that our Government quite correct-

Shansi, the unexpected

decided at that time to take re-

This Week

Shanghai, Jan. 18.

In

The Japanese Government has in-pearance of the 8th Route Army prisal against Japanese property in

destruction

structed Mr. Kawagoe, Ambassador threw the whole of the Japanese war Teingiao for the wanton to Chino, to return to Japan.

of the Yellow of Chinese factories and property In

The Chinese Ambassador to Tokyo, plan for the north Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, will sall, for China liver out of gear. The offensive Chapel, Nontao and Nanking hot-

eltansed and the Japancso High One can almost Imagine the from Yokohama by the Empress of had to try to retrieve the headed Kwantung militarie tear- Asla to-morrow-Reuter,

Y.M.C.A. FIXTURE

The following are Y.M.C.A. fixtures”“ „for week:

general situation by a diversional Ing their hair and gnashing their assault of our lines around Shanghai. teeth, rushing headlong into battle The disaster on the northern front for the province of Shantung. Reck- had to be covered up further by the less General Itagaki has appeared and seems to European sensational advance upon Nanking, on this front again

tools But from which they

the have learned nothing from the ulter the coming military point of view it is hard to failure of his adventure in Shonal, aco what strategic advantage they and his "Lost Art the Best book

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Group in the West Lounge at 0 p.m. hoped to gain from the capture of Spenker, The Rev. J. MacLean.

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