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四拜禮 辦一廿月七英港香 THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938.

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RUSSO - JAPANESE DISPUTE

LITVINOFF

DECLINES

TO YIELD

To

Japan Threatens

Attack If

If Missing Emissaries Injured

SOVIET RUSHING TROOPS

TO AREA OF

DANGER

Moscow, July 21.

The Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. returned here from his vacation yesterday and immediately called on the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M. Maxim Litvinoff,

Mr. Shigemitsu, the Ambassador, pointed out that the frontier post occupied by Soviet troops indisputably belonged to Manchukuo, documents in the hands of the Japanese Govern- ment proving, beyond any doubt, that the territory was formerly part of Manchuria.

The Japanese Ambassador demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Soviet troops.

In reply, M. Litvinoff reiterated the Soviet assertion that U.S.S.R, troops had not violated the Manchukuoan frontier, since the occupied town lies within Soviet ter- ritory.

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Although the conference between the Japanese Ambassador and M. Litvinoff lasted for 90 minutes agreement was reached.-Trans-Ocean.

Prepared To Attack

Tokyo, July 21.

The Monchukuo-Soviet border in- cider has given rise to considerable excitement in the Japanese capital.

Analety is being expressed regard- ing the fate of the' two Japanesc ufficers who, bearing a flag of truce, crossed the border carrying a Note from the Japanese' and Manchukuoan authorltics, demanding the IC- establishment of the status quo in Chongkufeng region. Nothing has been heard of the two men now for over 50 hours,

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It is semi-officially announced that "military measures will be taken if the two officers have been murdered or imprisoned." This is taken to mean that Japanese and Manchu kuoan forecs will launch an attack on the Soviet troops entrenched at Changkufeng hill if the whereabouts of the two envoys is not shortly established.

The fact that _consultations have taken place in Tokyo between the supreme command shows that the (Continued on Page 4)

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To Meet

All Enemies

Moscow, July 20. Speeches by the delegates from the Red Army and Navy received tremendous applause at the close of the first session of the newly-elected Soviet Parliament.

One delegate declared: "Ve are ready to rout any слету from whatever direction he may come, on his own territory or in his own waters."

Closing the session the Chair- man of the Supreme Soviet, M. Zhdanov, announced that un- animous decisions had been

all questions.

reached Reuter.

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The Telegraph's artist has mapped the area where Japanese and Russians are virtually at grips, following the alleged fron. tier violation by the Soviet and the shooting of Japanese gen- darmes near Timet (lower centre) near Possict Bay, The inset map shows more clearly how the borders of Korea (Japanese), Manchukuo and Russia converge on Peter the Great Bay, close to the fortified Russian port of Vladivostok.

STRONG FORCE OF

A brawl between two soldiers BRITISH SAILORS

of the 1st Battalion the Mid- dlesex Regiment and two Euro-,

pean police officers in the Jolly NOW GUARDS LARGE

Rodger Cafe, Nathan Road,

Mongkok on Tuesday evening!

was abruptly terminated when aj HANKOW PROPERTY

revolver was fired.

The sound startled passers-by and!

it brought the struggling men to ani Immediate standstill.

Investigating.

Hankow, July 21.

Nobody was injured, but the police) One hundred and ten British bluejackets, sent here now have the matter in hand and are from Hongkong, have arrived to reinforce the sailors already standing by to protect British lives and interests. The Hongkong party arrived last night by train and was brought from Weihaiwei to the British Colony by

It is believed that the Shot fired by one of the four involved in the ghi.

The exact cause of the brawl has not yet been ascertained.

The investigations may result in a departmental inquiry only. arrests have been made.

H.M.S. Suffolk,

The total number of British bluejackets in Hankow at the moment, ready to co-operate with the foreign authorities in safeguarding important and large national interests, is about 330, officers and men.

Forest Fire Threatens Many Towns Hankow.

Huge Timber Area Affected

San Francisco, July 20. Dry lighting, low humidity and high winds are threatening national timber lands and a score of towns throughout the country,

BRITAIN BOWS TO FRENCH WISHES IN CZECH CRISIS

France Fears Defensive·

Treaty Would Be Smashed

(Special to "Telegraph")

Paris, July 21.

It is reported that the British and French Govern- ments have rejected Herr Adolf Hitler's proposed solution for the Czecho-Slovakian crisis, which was to have been reached at the cost of sacrifice of the Czechs' defensive alliance with France and Russia.

conferences

Well-informed quarters state the between French and British statesmen in Paris during yesterday were screened behind the panoply of the King's visit.

Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, M. Edouard Daladier, French Prime Minister, and M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, were the principals in the conversations. They shelved Herr Hitler's offer for "a durable peace."

France stubbornly rejected Herr Hitler's terms.

BELIEVES NO CZECH

SOLDIERS MARCHING

British Information Contrary To Report

London, July 20. According to a statement in the House of Commons to-day

M. Daladier and M. Bonnet ex- plained to Lord Halifax that the proposal for a mutual guarantee of Czecho-Slovakian neutrality

would virtually scrap the Franco-Russo- Czech defensive treaty, since that agreement includes permission to France and Russia. to plant soldiers on Czech soil.

would

It is understood Lord Halifax con- sented to the French demands,

Any four-power talks which probably include Russians, Germans, British and French-must awalt settlement of the Czech and Spanish issues, it appears.

To Press For Reform

Meanwhile, France has agreed to press Czecho-Slovakia to complete the drafting of the Minority Reform · Statute.

A communique states briefly:

by the Prime Minister, Mr. "Lord Halifax, M. Daladier and M. Neville Chamberlain, indepen- (Continued on Page 4.) dent information in the posses- sion of the British Government contradicts the suggestion that STOP PRESS troop movements were in pro- gress in Czecho-Slovakia at the end of last week.

There are at present four British gunboats in

They are: H.M.S. Mantis, Gnat, Falcon and Mr. Chamberlain said the British

Tern.-United Press,

CHINESE DENY

In Washington State the forest- NANCHANG

fire fighters report that five large fres are.raging. Incendiarism is aus-

pocted in each case.

A fire in Dougton County, Oregon,

LANDING

destroyed two residences

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church in Sutherlin before it brought under control.

was

Japanese Airmen

Two saw mills have been destroyed

Settlement Hopeless If at Klamath Falls, the estimated loss

Clash Occurs

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BANDITS HAMPER GUERILLAS

Treachery Shatters Peasant Confidence

Shanghal, July 21.

In answer to a question on Monday,

Government belleved there was no truth in the report of abnormal troop movements, To-day he was asked by Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Labour leader, whether, with a view to pre- venting similar apprehensions to that recently caused by the

statement

Issued by the German official Nows||

SURPRISE

CHINESE

Agency that abnormal troop_move- LANDING

ments were taking place in Czecho- Slovakia, the Government would pro- pose that a neutral International Commission of observers be sent to the border districts of Czecho- Slovakia and Germany.

..

Hankow, July 21.

The Chinese military au-

He replied: "The Czecho-Slovak thorities here have been in- Government recently granted facilities formed that an undisclosed

for the attachment of two observera

to His Majesty's Legation at Prague number of Chinese soldiers I may say these Observers at once

FILM OFFER TO CORRIGAN

The Chinese are now vigorously engaged in battle with the Japanese near Sun- kiang.

The well-organised Chinese guerilla visited the areas mentioned in the affected a landing at Chin- being $200,000.

units harassing the Japanese troops, recent reports and found no evidence Hankow, July 21. A heavy pall of smoke is over-

muvement. In shanwei, 40 miles south-west hanging the

The Oregon timber areas, Chinese Air Force head-in the lower Yangtse Valley are face of abnormal troop

denial that ing a serious menance, not from the these circumstances an International Tokyo, July 21. making it difficult for look-outs to quarters ins issued

Japanese, but from roving gangs of Commission would perhaps be super-of Shanghai, Death struck on the parade ground regarding the situation on the Man-

Uneasiness is growing in Tokyo locate new conflagrations.

Japanese planes landed on the aero-

armed bandits whose number nearly fluous."-British Wireless. at the Shamshulpo military camp chukuo-Soviet frontier.

More than 3,000 fires are raging in drome at Nanchang on Monday.

equals the strength of the guerillas, cight national forests in California. A spokesman sold that four The bandlis, It is emphasised, will yesterday morning.

Morning newspapers devote great A fire near Ryderwood, in south- Japanese planes had been shot down in no case attack either the Japanese Private Hubert John D'Arcy, of the space to accounts of Soviet troop west Washington, has blazed for over in dog fights over Nanchang, one of or the Chinese guerillas, no matter 1st Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, movements, and stote that heavy a weeks. burning out over 12,000 the victims being Squadron Lender what their numerical superiority may was exercising a horse on the parade reinforcements of all kinds are arriv-neres. It is still not under control. Nango of the Fourth "Four Aces" be. ground when the animal slipped, foll, ing from Vladivostok.

-United Press. and threw its rider heavily.

The Japanese press declare that Private D'Arcy landed on his head the Soviet intend to defend the ful settlement

of the dispute will and he was picked up unconscious postulans it has seized at Changku become hopeleas. and suffering from severe concussion feng, which they have since forlifed.

Semi-officially, the Japanese For- and a fractured spine.

He died in hospital yesterday after-siderable activity, making frequent entertain no territorial aims vir-a-tis Soviet airmen are displaying con- eign Office declares that Japon would reconnaissanco flights. The funeral, with full military

Should the Soviet military activity Soviet Russin, but in the case of mill- tary interference will make use of Honours, will take place, this after-continue on the frontier, Tokyo news her right to secure her frendlers. noon at Happy Valley.

papers frankly believe that a peace-

Trans-Ocean.

Pripon, W.

The harm they do, however, is in generating distrust against all armed

Hollywood, July 20, men by unhappy formers.

Warner Bros. have cabled Douglas

bandits attack and rob small villages, dew the Atlantic in a nino-year-old

"Dawn

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Heavy fighting has pro- Press..

50 KILLED IN RAID

Posing as bona fide guerillas, the Corrigan, the Irish-American who ceeded since Monday. Hankow, July 21, Yuehyang, Tungting Lake.

Japanese planes yesterday bombed taking from the inhabitants whatever plane, offering him a role in the United Press.

small pittance the war has still left forthcoming.. production Fifty were killed and over a hund- them, and frequently torturing and Patrol." red wounded in the, rold-United | killing vilingers who show hesitalion The film will star Errol Flynn/-- Press.

(Continued on Pago 4)

United Press.

(Further Ston Press News on Page 12.).