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No. 10382

FOUNDED 1061 五拜禮 號九廿月七英港香 FRIDAY, JULY

29,

1938.

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SO YEARS OF GHOWIN

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyro with 2,000 Teeth

GUERILLAS VICTORIOUS IN EAST HOPEI

י

GRAVE FEAR Sweeping Reforms Planned For British Army

FOR SAETY

OF SETTLERS

10,000 Koreans in Area Over-Run by Raiders

Peiping, July 28.

According to reports from East Hopei guerillas have captured Ninghohsien, 40 miles north-east of Tientsin and only five miles west of the railway.

The fate of ten thousand Koreans forming a special Colony in Ninghohsien is unknown.

The magistrate at Hsinminhui and other officials have returned to Peiping. Officials from Tsinpua and Chihsien have also abandoned their posts due to guerilla activities.

It is reported that, in view of rumours that they intended to join the guerillas, the Japanese have disarmed the whole of the east Hopei Peace Preservation Corps. This report cannot be confirmed locally.

The East Hopei Provisional Government has issued a statement advising police and militia who have joined the guerillas to "repent and be pardoned, since they acted under compulsion."- United Press.

It

Japanese Withdrawing

1:

Tsingtao, July 20. rritably

that reported Japanese troops are withdrawing the Kinotsi Rulway garrisons in Shon-

They have maintained troops tung. at important stations on the railway only.

Foreigners have not been permit- fed to travel on this railway for several days, and wil not be until further notice.

There have been farge withdrawals of military equipment from Tsingino | during the last few days. Civilians | were not permitted to enter the wharf area yesterday afternoon.--

Reuter.

FATHER JACQUINOT FOUND

But Mystery Of Disappearance Still Remains

Father Jacquinot, the French priest who saved 30 many Chinese lives by organising the sanctuary in Shanghai's Chinese

POISON GAS city during the recent fighting

USED BY INVADERS

there, has been found. He is alive.

PROTESTS

AGAINST REFUGEE CAMP SITES

Disease, Noise And

Crime Prospects Worry Ratepayers

A special meeting of the

REPRESENTING THE GREATEST ADVANCE in science of aeronautics since the Great War, the Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft, pictured here, has justified the hopes and plans of its builders. The top half of the craft, aided into the air by the lower portion, has made a return trip over the Atlantic-to Canada and the United States. It broke the westward record. This is Imperial Airways' initial bid for leadership in fust, trans- ocean service.

ANGLO - JAPANESE

PROMOTIONS SPEEDED

BY

NEW RULING

2,000 Officers To Get Higher Rank August 1

London. July 28,

The new conditions of service for combatant Army officers, announced by the Secretary of State for War, Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, in the House of Commons to-night, contain revolutionary proposals.

In future, promotion will be by time instead of by

vacancy.

The complete democratisation of the Cadet Colleges. at Sandhurst and Woolwich is provided by the grant of 100 per cent. scholarships to successful candidates whose. parents' means make the remission of fees necessary,

RELATIONS HURT BY

TALK OF CHINA AID younger age than hitherto. In future a Regimental

Tokyo, July 29.

General Committee of the Kow- loon Residents' Association was held on Thursday evening to consider letters received by the The statements made in the House of Commons by Association protesting against Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and Under- Government's proposal to erect a refugee camp on the Marina, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. E. Butler, regarding contemplated assistance to China, casts a

Kowloon,

It was felt that this site, as well

as that at Kowloon Tant is open to gloom over Anglo-Japanese relations, declares the Nichi grave objection in view of the pro- bability of disease, noise and crime Nichi Shimbun, leading vernacular paper here, in an being aggravated.

editorial published to-day.

10 write

to

decided was Government protesting against the

The paper reminds readers that it was understood use of these sites and a deputation that negotiations have been in progress

of three was appointed to seek an interview with Government to dk-

CLISS slics.

The system of half-pay has been abolished and the maximum rates of retired pay will be attained at a

Major will be able to earn his maximum retired pay at the age of 56 if he has had 23 years' service.

The promotion to a captaincy will be after eight years' service and a majority after seventeen years' service. Promotion to higher ranks will be by selection.

LOYALIST ADVANCE

between the UNCHECKED

the possibility of alternative Foreign Minister, General Kazushige Ugaki, and the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, for possible promotion of better relations between the two countries.

CHARITY MUST BE CONTROLLED

Drastic Reforms Necessary

Shanghai, July 29, Drastic reform of the local relief

This is the effect of a brief Reuter message from Tokyo received to-day. Father Jacquinot has been "miss- ing" for nearly a week. Arriving in Yokohama by the Empress of Asia, he was reported to have missed the administration must be undertaken in ship when delayed on a train trip to order to prevent charity becoming a Kobe and informed Shanghai friends serious demoralising factor. in the that he would be catching the next hablis of refugees. mail steamer Shanghai-bound.

Then he vanished. The clue to his John Earl Baker, director of the a parcel, with a Shanghai International Red Cross, in Reports that Japanese troops Nagasaki

wherea calmark, sent to

sent to a friend

a letter to members of the executive No-one sage with

British Surgeon Confirms Report

Hankow, July 29.

This Is the recommendation of Mr.

in the Matang sector, below Kiu- in Shanghal. But there was no mos- committee.

he

SHANGHAI LIVING

COSTS SOARING

And Worse Is Yet To Come

Shanghai, July 29. The first index compiled in Shanghai to indicate the cost of

The journal points out that Foreign Office elreles are showing great concern about the reports that Mr. Chamberlain and the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs were to hold a conference Thursday for the purpose

Many Prisoners In Ebro Offensive

On the Ebro River Front,

July 29:

The new measures will be .Issued. in detail to the Army during the, Orst week of August,

The tenure of command and staff. appointments generally will be re- duced from four to three years.

The retiring age

of Generals and Lieutenant-Generals will be lower- ed from 67 to 00, Major-Generals from 62 to 57, Colonels from 57 to 55, Licut, Colonels from 55 to 50 and Majors from 50 to 47.

The effect of this will be to con siderably accelerate promotion, thereby giving increased pay at a lower age.

Subalterns receiving 1s. to is. 2d.

per day will receive substantive in- creases in pay,

The Government's troops have Private Means Unnecessary "mopped up" in the hills on the

One hundred scholarships, valued Insurgents side of the River at 100 per annum, will be distri Ebro and have captured

(Continued on Page 7)

more

of exchanging views regarding the proposed assistance to China.

"Such statements are tantamount to a threatening gesture against the than 4,000 prisoners and a con- reported Anglo-Japanese converse- |tions in Tokyo," the paper charges, siderable quantity of war

The paper

complete Japan's materials, including a unshakable policy toward China will trainload of supplies, its crew not be affected by such statements, and its armed guard. It voices regret that the British attitude is taken at the very juncture when the political situation in Chino is developing delicate complications. -bornet.

Says

that

AVOID INCIDENTS

kiang, had used poison gas inmate wed on. Dhe knew where licere Mr. Baker points out that the living for foreigners has been TRYING TO their attacks on the Chinese commenced inquiries. But Father works and the tendency to stay in the completed after a careful survey forces, were confirmed by Dr. H. Jacquinot was hidden from even this camps as long as there were ample by the Shanghai Municipal Talbot, British surgeon in the all-seeing force which

so carefully rations to satisfy hunger was be-Council. It is shown that the Nanchang General Hospital, in watches the movements of foreign coming acute and charitablo organi-cost of living had risen by 14.262 a written report received in visitors.

sations cannot solve the problem un-per cent. at June, 1938, as com- Hankow.

Foul play was suspected finally. less they "debunk sentimentalism and And then to-day Reuter says: taco the facts."--Reuter,

pared with last year. Dr. Talbot was recently sent to "Father Jacquinot has been found the mission Institution in Nanchang alive." by the International Red Cross for Central

China. After having examined nineteen Chinese wounded Boldiers. all evacuated from the Matang area following the hostiles between July 2 and 3, he found con- clusive evidence that the mon suffering from the effects of poison

STAYING WITH FRIEND

No

Statement

་

The Insurgents are apparently un- able react: Nowhere is there any sign of a counter-attack.

STOP PRESS

Three Years' Hard Labour

On Arms Cost fuel, lighting and miscellaneous ex- taken steps to prevent further viola Ebro. The principal fighting zones the military revolt which resulted

Vellabelo.—United

The sole Insurgent reply to the Loyalist offensive is continuous alr activity, which is a boomerang, since the prisoners in the Loyalists hands are the worst sufferers. Heavy anti- aircraft are keeps the planca at Д good height.

The Loyalists on the march are in fing

spirits,

singing rousing songs! and when they meet truckloads of prisoners taunting them with such remarks as: "How do you like Eght- do ing in a foreign army?" "low Shanghai, July 29.

you

Bay

Italian?" 'I love you' in

Tokyo, July 20. The findings are based on the sys- At the press conference this morn-

"Ifave you brought any spaghetti?”

Justo Oda, 33, was sentenced to tem employed by the China National Ing a Japanese spokesman, referring are sull advancing and

Loyalist despatches say the troops three years' hard labour for the Tariff Commission, dealing with five to criticism made by the U.S. More from twelve points held along the Minobe in February, 1986, preceding operating attempted murder of Dr. Tatsukichi categories of food, clothing, housing, said the Japanese authorities had penses. Although the compilers of tions of the international defence are Gandesa und

sentries

hove the chart do not claim their figures sector agreement. All London, July`28. are accurate, they undoubtedly been instructed to see that Japanese The Chancellor of the Exchequer, give a fair indication of the present military truckta proceeding. through for Shanghai in the Felix Roussel to-Sir John Simon, declined to make conditiona, duo to the fall in the the US. defence sector comp

comply with He concluded his report with the morrow,-Reuter,

an estimate at present of the amount Chinose

the increased duty the dollar,

agreement between the Marines following statement: "These cases

by which the former five year on Imports

essential to

and the Japanere stipulating that foreigners, were all neon In Nanchang, and In

estimate of £1,500,000,000 for the rise in the price of commodities, two armed men per truck can pro- my opinion, were all caused by gas

Tokyo, July 20,

defence sector poisoning of the mustard gas typo The week-old mystery surrounding enditure on armaments is likely the increased cost of public utilities ceed through the

be exceeded,

service, bigher municipal taxes, where the Americans are on duty- (possibly chlorine),"--Central News, the whereabouts of Father Jacquinot

When his attention was called in a entortalament tax and general unrest. Reuter, since he arrived in Yokohama on supplementary question to the in- July 20 from Amerlen on route to crease in prices of materials which It is pointed out that the increase

Dr. Wang Chung-hul, Forelin NO MORE HANDSHAKES, Shanghai, came to an end this morn had taken place since the original in the cost of living will soar in the and general commodities had not Minister in the Chinese Central Gov-

Ing when he was found staying_with Rome, July 29..

ernment, has flown to Chunglln It has been decreed that the Fascist One of his Japanese friends in Hyogo/umpte, in addition to expansion of immediato future, as the present in- been Increased in prien,

the original programme, Sir John dex covers June. During June, ac- The housing problem remalna where he will carry on la offelal Prefecture, westerii Japan,

to the foreign sald: The House has already been cording solute will replace handshakes in

preos, much the same but the index for duties in future.. The discovery was made. as the Informed that the preliminary foreignors residing in Shanghai were July and later will show not 131- Italian plays and motion pictures rosult of an extensive search direct estimate is likely to be substantially not made to feel the effect of

The remainder of his staff to Nying the significant increases in this category to the United Preze.

new capital to-morrow.— (Continued on Page 7)

exceeded."--British Wireless,

dovalued currency since the imported also.-Router.

United Press.

gns.

were

Tokyo, July 20. Father Jacquinot was found nt a seaside village near Kobe staying with a Japanese friend.

He is perfectly well and ils leaving,

WEEK-OLD MYSTERY

to

το

Prca.

Leaving For Chungking

Hankow, July 20,

from

Dr. Minobo's assertion that the Emperor was gan of the state."

organ That theory is prohibited in Japan where the Emperor is, the sinte.

The court deducted more thon year from Oda's sentence because he has been in prison so long awaiting trial.-United Press.

(Further Stop Prean Nows on Papa 12.)