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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Three Men Gaoled For Espionage

One Known To Work

For Communists

London, Mar. 14. When the OMcial Secrets trial: opened at the Old Balley to-day, ot the four men accused under the Act, Glading. Williams and Whomack pleaded guilty, and Munday pleaded not guilty,

No evidence was tendered against

was formally dia- | Munday, who charged. Glading was sentenced to years' penal servitude, Williams to four years' and Whomack to three years'.

The police stated that Glading had been an agent of the Communiat international in India and ho inter:

was mentioned as FUS associate in the Meerut conspiracy. Ho. was dis- missed from Woolwich Arsenal in 1910, and later he attended a couTSC at the Lenin Communist School in Moscow,

The Judge, referring to a Miss X, said he thought the young woman must have possessed extraordinary courage, and sho bad done great service to her country.

Addressing Glading, the Judge sald he was convinced he was engaged in work to injure his country for the money inter claf obtaining

Reuter Special,

STOP PRESS

WARSHIP AND TRANSPORT OFF PO-ON

Canton, March 15.* A Japanese cruiser and a transport arrived off the coast of Po On yesterday.

So far they have remained in- active. Central News,

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1988.

JAPANESE CAMPAIGN BY NO MEANS VICTORIOUS, SAYS CHINESE GENERAL

Honkow, Mar. 15.

A significant statement was made to the foreign press yes- terday by the Chineso Army intelligence chief, and Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek's aide-de-camp, General Hsu Pei-ken. He said: "Japan alms, not to destroy China, but to seize the natural resources in North China in order to strengthen herself for dealings with other powers.

has

"In order to achieve this she must deliver a crushing blow to the: Chinese army. The essence of a the correct EUCCESS in strategie.

the estimation of

enomy forces. consistently under- Japan csumated Chinese resistance, and because of this she has strategically lost every action in which she has so far been engaged, having failed. Arstly, to consolidate Hopei with forces on the spot, and, secondly, to secure the defection of Shantung and Shansi from the Central Government.

Stock Market Calm But Lifeless

Continental Bonds Slump Heavily

London, Mar. 14. The Stock Exchange generally was calm to-day in face of the European developments, though many foreign bonds were lower, especially Aus-

"Japan is able to send 60 divisions into China, but she has only sent half this number. Why? Because she greater enemy in the cannot forget north; and secondly, because she is forced to patrol Manchuria with 12 divisions. Therefore, we are con vinced that she has already reached trians and Czecho-Slovakians. Fears the limit of the forces she can afford of interruption in the debt services We do not win of Far Eastern bonds were offset to use against us, bailes, but Japan has or strategie tool wing the Chinese exchange con-

decisive action. Her mandate.

Gilt-edged holdings met plans are not carried out, and the whole conception on which she has Continental selling. based her strategy has proved to Kamfrs and Diamonds. Industrials rest on the false premises of under- were dull and idle, but Internationala estimation of our forces. Therefore, were firm.

Wheat ensed in sympathy with we may say that so far she has lost the war, since her objectives have overseas reports, and cotton

nemer, New York not following the not been reached."

Liverpool seiback on Saturday,

WHY JAPAN HAS FAILED

held up In addition Japan was

her the when, unfortunately for theatre of operations extended to Shanghai What is more she was unable to secure a junction on the Tientsin-Pukow railway which was

ΟΙ of Nun..

was

her plan utter the cable to con-

She has been

with Paris offered

was

In foreign exchanges, the French frane fell from 156 to 164 following the Austrian developments, together with disappointment over the con- stitution of the now French Govern- ment-Reuter Special,

and

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BONDS CRASH

London, Mar. 14. king.

Czecho-Slovakian Austrian, tinue the Pelping-Hankow railway drive in order to cut the Lunghai Polish bonds crashed on the world's

without markets to-day. Chengchow railway st

Even British funds were affected. Anna May Wong - Chas. Bickford undertaking supplementary action to

she has paint. protect her Banks against the Chinese British War Loans dropped nearly forces in Shansi. Finally

Even France's assurance that she failed either to wipe out the Chinese forces in Shansi, or to force them would honour all her commitments west to Czecho-Slovakia did not prevent south and to retreat to the

the bonds of that nation from tum- across the Yellow River."

bling.

a

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320

New York reports that trading has

720

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and that there is a wide divergence between the buying and selling price.

United Press.

General Hsu attributed the failure of the Japanese strategy to the in-ceased on the 1957 Austrian bonds ability to limit the warfare to narrow froat, and the insufficiency of the Japanese forces, duc firstly to the under-estimation of Chinese resistance and secondly to the desire!

for her to conserve man-power "northern neighbour."

.. PIECEMEAL OPERATIONS

As a result of this Japan was con- stantly forced to bring up reinforce- ments for plecemeal operations.

General Hau estimated that the total number of Japanese troops in China proper was 20 divisions, of which eight were very recent re- inforcements. He stated that six divisions were at present operating in were insufficient Shansi, but there either to annihilate or to drive away the Chinese troops,

"We have 300,000 armed men in Shansi continuing to threaten the All have orders Japanese flanks. to retreat across the river."

"Internally Japan has spread pro- paganda that she has surrounded us and that Shans! has been executed in the "manoeuvre". However, when Hindenburg beat Samsonoff at Tan- nenberg he killed 100,000 men and took 90,000 Russions as prisoners, while the Japanese have not destroy- cd a Chinese detachment in the present Shansl drive, and their claim is nonsense.”

MUI TSAI TO RETURN TO PARENTS

Wong Po-kou, 41, a widow, was fined $100 when she appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning, charged with keeping an unregistered mui tsai named Li Ngan-hol.

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Prosecuting, Inspector H. W. Frater of the Secretariat for Chineso Affairs, sald that on March 13 the girl called TOMORROW at the No. 6 Police Station and re- ported that she was an unregistered mui taut and complained of having heen assaulted by defendant.

The girl, said Mr. Fraser, had been sold by her parents in Canton for $128 in 1038; she was brought to Hongkong and later taken to Annam, returning to Hongkong in July of last year. She was paid no wages, but was given some lucky money at Chinese New Year,

The girl had been struck on the leg with a piece of firewood for hav- ing used a ten cloth for cleaning a cupboard,

small bruise being visible.

a

At present the girl was being kept

JAPANESE ON DEFENSIVE The Chinese recapture of Puhsien

a Japanese at the Po Leung Kuk, and arrange- and the encircling of detachment at Sinhslen was cited by ments were being made to return her General Hsu as proof that the Japan- to her parents in Canton.

ese were now on the defensive and unable to send two divisions were

back to the Pelping-Hankow railway LOTTERY HOUSE

Lent as formerly Intended, due to the fact that such action would expose the remaining four divisions in Shansi to danger of annihilation.

"The annics on all fronts have now been ordered never to abandon terri- tory for the mountains. 'I forced, leave all lines of communication, but never leave area with whose de- fence you have been entrusted, they

were ordered.**

General Hou said that such tactles were bound to exhaust Japan and disrupt her plans. In the event of a Japanese invasion of South China the now strategy would be even more effective there than on the present fronte, due to the topography of the country.-United Press.

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Hsuchow, Mar. 15.

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POOR BOX BENEFITS High Austrian

The poor box of the Kowloon Magistracy was to-day enriched by

Officials

$191.08 as the result of the arrest of Are Arrested

four men yesterday for keeping a common gaming house.

were

Berlin, March 14.

HEVER

AMONA

́~ ́LORETTA', YOUNG DON AMECHE› WENT TAYLOR

British Navy Manoeuvres In Atlantic

The men, Lo Ki, 20, Chan Hung.

Gibraltar, Mar, -14. 27, Wu Fan, 21 and Chan Hok-ham,

The combined British Home and. 25, all described as clerks,

The National Zeitung states that charged with the offence before Mr. Prince Starhemberg was arrested at Mediterranean Fleets, mightiest night- K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon the West Station, Vienna while he ing force in European waters, sailed Magistracy to-day.

was about to leave. The newspaper to-day on the second phase of the Dot-Sergeant R. North prosecuted adds. that several high Austrian manoeuvres in the Atlantic United and said that when he ralded the officials were also arrested, including Press. house he found, the four defendanta Herr Welser, former.

Chlef of police, engaged in the writing out of lottery and Herr Halol, former Minister, of receipts for sale to outsiders. Be- Education. sides $101.68 which was picked up on a table, a further sum of well

who treated the Duke of Windsor on Appeals

numerous occasions, has been arrest- ed,--Reuter.

Mercy Rejected

A Vienna report says that ProfessCondemned Men's With the Shansi forces actively ver $250 was found amongst the Heinrich Neumann, the ear specialist | harassing their rear the Japanese personal effects of two of the de-

For attempt to cut communications on Zendants. The Arst defendant had the Lunghal Railway by driving down | employed the other three, men to simultaneously from South Shang work for him. He was asking for n and along the Peiping-Hankow Rail- serious view of the

case to be taken way is doomed to failure, says a com- as it appeared that the work was one petent military. observer.

of a big organisation.

The Arst defendant was fined $80, The Japanese forces in south and the other three, mon $50 each. Shansi, he adds, have been placed in They were on ball of $100 each. a precarious position with the Tatung-Puchow Railway cut nt eeveral points by Chinese guerillas. Their provisions, have now to be transported by aeroplaries, he_re- vealed. “

CONSPIBACT" CHARGE

A charge of conspiracy, with others

SPANISH PROTEST TO BRITAIN

London, Mar. 14. The Spanish Government has pro- Government testod to the British against returning to the Insurgents; survivors of the Nationalist cruiser, not in custody, to stambeneration Balerias, who were. Frei ued by Heavy Chinese reinforcements, he baskets worth $270 from Dam Cheung British warships-Reuter Bulletin.. added, have been placed on both shop-keeper we preferred against: banks of the Yellow River in north Chan Tal, dias. Dual-Mo, alias- Hò Chak, 40, before, Mr. H. R♫ Butters, Honan and south Bhanal, and the de-, fence work have been considerably at the Central Marrtacy Thlarporne- strengiheed, “Central: Nati

Pripled and Published for the

'The appeals fol Bykov, Yogods and

·condemned to. and'cap.

the court. pected they