1938-06-07 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG

TUESDAY, TELEGRAPH,

JUNE

7, 1938.

Sanctuary Cities May Win Japan's Approval

SCHEME OFFERS CERTAIN REFUGE

Foreign Supervision Might Be Needed

From a highly authoritative source, the Telegraph learns that the Japanese Government would give sympathetic consideration Third any to suggestions by Party Power for the establish- ment of non-combatant areas near Chinese citles likely to be bombed by Japanese airmen.

The suggestion refers parti- cularly to Canton and Hankow.

The presstility of establishing non- Combatant urens, in which civilians could ser sanctuary, Wils

Art by Catholic maisted

Missions 1J2 Canton, whu, i sated, approached General Wu Tob-chen, Governor of Kangling Province.

Chistese vireles are believed to have considered the scheme Impracticable on the grounds that the Japanera would not co-operate.

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werk-official Jagachiyas sturre, karwever, the Triegraph was informed this morning that, whilst no definite paroise could be made, th Japanes Guverument would at least Rive most sympathetic consider diva tre such a proposal

love Itr

The proposal would eunveyed to the Japanuser

GOVERN ment by a Tord Party Power, l out by the Chinese authorities

The Telegraph b informed that one of the requisites would be the appointment of neutral observers lov Third Party Powers In order enstre that non-combatant were completely demiiltarised, and

for sanctuary ELM not used Chinese military forces or supplies.

were

Sure Of Sympathy

Breas

offeinl

the A high

Tokyo ot Guvernment now in ilongkong told nny the Telegraph: "I cannot make

ut the Melite promise on beh

Government. You may Japanese

state, however, that if Great Britain,

nr any other Third

3

ww

to propuse

Government

Party Paver,

Ju The Japanese that

non-contzatani

arets should be established in the vicinity of Canton, Hankow and other cities which are military objectives. weared Lite Japanese Government

tive the most sympathetic consider - ation towards such proposals,

"Japan deplores the heavy loss ut But must civilian life in Canton

be recognised that Canton itself is a

the

military objective of

unportance, and certain sections the city, containing as they do vast supplies

vi

military

equipment.

transport and other facilities used by the

Chinese military

must be destroyed

"Japan has repeatedly

authorities,

terated

the warning conveyed to Canton last 13 highly September

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dangerous for civilians to remain in residence in the veinity military objectives.

Airmen

18-YEAR-OLD GIRL, BURIED UNDER RUINS OF HOME, IS RESCUED

CANTON'S MOST GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH is this one, showing the rescue of an 18- The girl's calls for help year-old girl who was buried beneath 15 feet of masonry. attracted the attention of Red Cross workers, who dug for three hours before they were able to extricate her. The girl-little more than a child-was firmly wedged below a The beams which saved her large slab of concrete, which effectively pinned her legs. life, by creating a living tomb on which hunde ts of tons of rubble fell, can be seen Boken timbers and bricks were piled 12 running dingonally across the photograph.

feet above the beams.-Photo by courtesy A. T. Hull. World Copyright Strictly Reserved,

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Montovani The young girl shown in the photo above was as the rescued daughter, were buried. rescued from beneath 15 feet of this type of ruiny, rescue workers digging slightly to the left of this photograph. The wife and two sons, as well as over 60 other people, were buried in the ruins shown above-all that remained of a four-storey tenement.-Photo by A. T. Hall. World Copyright Strictly Reserved.

ITALIANS

|

New Scheme Instructed

"Our airmen have been given the most strict and complete instruction

to avok homing areas other tha those nominated as military objee-

have

corried tives, and they

ouf

foreign ob

these instructions faithfully.

"I invite

impartial

servers to visit Canton and to attest

to the fact that the only areas bomb-

BLAME LOYALISTS

ed in the city have been those which For Bombing Of French;

have been nominated and are known

be military objectives

to be

"Bombs have not been dropped in- discriminately in Canton, as has been

newspapers alleged by

Kume

news agencles.

"Indiscriminate bombing

death

foll 18 can

city of nearly two million would result in a would be staggering. imagined.

and

Village

Rome, June 7

#

:

To Prevent

Air Warfare

Observers Might Keep World Well-informed

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9.0 B.B.C. Recording-A Talk On Cricket by Commander C. B. Fry.

9.13 Gilazounow-Stenka Ruzine' Bulte.

Played by the Orchestra Of The Brussels Royal Conservatoire con- ducted by Desire Defauw.

9.30 London Relny--The News. 9.50 Excerpts from Opera.

Serngilo--Overture (Mozart). Vienne Philharmonic Orchestra cond, by Clemens Krauss, Director of the State Opera, Vienna; Traviata- Selection (Verdi).

Creatore's Band; Samson And Delilah-Seftly London, June 7. Awakes My Heart (Saint-Saens). London, June 7.

Thr Japanese baycutt proporal Duet: Mlle. G. Cernay

and M. 11 understood that at the

with Thill

Orchestra; came up again at the Co-operative Georges invitation of Great Britain, Norway.

Damnation Of Faust-Les Sylphos Sweden and the United States with Congress conference last night.

The Scarborough delegate aeverely (Berlioz); Damnation Of Faust participate in an international comeriticised the Co-operative Wholesale Hungarian March.

Willem Men. mission 10 investigate the alr

Concert- bombardments in Spain.

conducting the

Soriety for ignoring the recommend-relberg ation of the national authority that gebouw Orchestra.

10.20 London Relay The Alder- operative members should boy-

The news of this move has been generally favourably received but further consideration will be necess-coll dapanese goods during the pre-shot Searchlight Tattoo.

sent Sino-Japanese confilet,

ary and the scheme may have to be indilled before it can gain complete

acceptanet.

The bombing of a Freach frontier village in the Pyrenees by planes which flew out of of this

Spain yesterday is unanimously people

here by Italian news- attributed tlak

papers to

to disguised planes of the be

Loyalist Government.

They declare the position of "Japan deplores the loss of civilian

the Spanish Government is so life. Deliberate raids en civilians in

desperate that the only chance non-military zones connot possibly

of saving it is to provoke aid Japan, and we would be senseless

European war-Reuter. if we attempted such ralds. We don't

DALADIER INVESTIGATES because, kill elvilians deliberately.

Paris, June 7. for one thing, it cannot possibly help

M. Edouard Dalcher, the Prime us. Why should we waste time and

Minister, has left by plane for the

an invitation to visit either territory raise the same issue with regard to He asked why delegates did not money on elvilians when we have

Franco-Spanish frontier, to carry out the so much more important military

Spale, in

the Loyalists' or objectives

Germany and Italy and added that Why personal Inspection of the scene of eradiente? to

Insurgents'. to inspect bombarded Sunday's bombardment, should we jeopardise our relations

Nine

lowns and ascertain whether or not only 40 out of 1,200 societies had unidentified

grey-coloured

made representations on this rub- with other Powers, and create world- wide in-wilt towards our nation, by planes bombed a French frontier they contained military objectives.

A Government represented on the icet. Some of those which were In their demands village in the Pyrenees, nur Alx-les-commision would in no way

bo most emphatic deliberately maiming and killing

Thermes, early on Sunday morning responsible for non-combatants?

reports, the were Damage was considerable but there intention being, rather, to put world opinion in possession of the facts. --Reuter,

"All warfare is brutal, and civilians have always suffered. Japan desires that civilians in Chinn should suffer na little as possible, and I want to reiterate ngain our warning of September last to citizens of Canton do not live or remuth near military objectives. Keep away from rail- way arous,

from the Government

offices and from military barracks, Keep away from those parts of Canton, where troops live and con- pregate, where war supplies stored."

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were no casualties,

Similar raids were carried out on French frontier towns n fortnight ago. It is noteworthy that M. Daladler is accompanied by the Chief of the Military Secretariat-United Press.

ON SECOND LEG OF OCEAN FLIGHT

Honolulu, June 7. Richard Archbold, the American explorer who is going to New Guinea Jon a two-year exploratory trip on |behalf of the American Museum of Natural History, hopped off for Wake and Midway Islands at 9 o'clock this

Hongkong morning,

From Midway Island he will pro- ceed to Guam and thence to Now Guinea along the span of ocean where Amelia Earhart disappeared. -United Press.

time.

Mr. C. H. Riddle, defending the attitude of the Co-operative Whole- At present it is proposed that the sale Soclety, said they had to take i wide view of trading relations both commission should establish a base in

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Its

Defenceless. British Ship Bombed, Sunk

Valencia, June 7.

Three British members of the crew a British cargo steamer and two Lascar hands were killed by Insurgent bombs to-day,

Tho ship was attacked by five Insurgent planes while she lay in Alicante harbour.

The ship, the Bt. Winifred, was hit by several bombe and caught fro-Reuter.

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RAINFALL WELL

actually buying Japanese BELOW AVERAGE

The Congress, with 1 few

Because it has been so dry during resolution dlasentients, pussed. E

the last week, Hongkong's rainfall for instructing societies to refuse to buy

well below the pods from nations going to war the year is now without first offering to submit their average. Since January 1, the total inches, as trievances to independew arbitration, rainfall has been 21.34

Reuter.

compared with an average of 20.00 -nearly five inches below average. The temperature at 10 o'clock this morning was as high as 80 degrees, with humidity down to 00 per cent. Yesterday's maximum temparature surprisingly only reached 87 degrEER, while the minimum recording last night wan 78 degrees.

SUSPECTED LEPER TRIES TO END LIFE

A man named Lam Ng, 80, us pected to be a leper, was sent to the Kennedy Town Infectious Disessea The Royal Observatory weather re- Hospital yesterday, after ise hud at-port this morning stated that an anti- tempted to commit suicide by Jump-cyclone is probably situated over the lug into the harbour!

Pacile to the east of the Boina. Another man named Li Shing, 00 Pressure is moderately high between who attempted suleide by jumplug The Bonins and the Loochoos, and is off the Mongkok Ferry Mun Suen relatively low over China generally, into the harbour at 11 o'clock last and the Western Carolinos. night was sent to the Kowloon Hon- pital.

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