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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938.

China Leading Problem For League Meet

Geneva, Sept. D.

The appen from China is the only essential politica! item on the agenda of the 102nd League of Nations' Council session that begins to-day under the chairmanship of Mr. W. J. Jordons, ligh Commissioner in Lon- don for New Zealand, who is re- presenting his country at the meet- ing. In this appeal China has re- quested the invocation of Articles 12 and 17 of the League,

Of the other and rather technical items of the programme only the fol lowing are of general Interest:

The appointment of a new trustee for the Austrian League of Nations loans to succeed the Itullan trustee who has neted-hitherto but has now avaigned;

The reports of the permanent Mandates Commission of the Lengue

World S.O.S.

STOP PRESS For Antimony

From China

NEXT 72 HOURS WILL TELL

Antimony regulus, an important export from China is becoming scarce as a result of the hostillies in central China. A Reuter message from Lon- don states that dealers are reporting Increased interest and activity in timony on the part of speculators and to the passibility of consumers owing to the decreasing stocks in Hongkong which may lead to stringency of supplies,

this

A Hongkong exporter this morning explained that the reason for scarcity is the closing of the Yang- tse River, which has prevented sup- Shanghai by the plies being sent Londons, Sept. 9. normal route, and latterly, the closing The return to London of the of millway communications between This has Premier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Hankow and Hongkong. his subsequent conferences with his cut off China's only port of exit for colleagues and the summoning of athis, and other mineral products.

Monday Cabinet meeting for

has In consequence there has been a aroused much speculation

the

decline In the export of anti- sharp Press here.

mony regulus, as well as antimony ore, from Hongkong during the past month or so

During 1537 China exported over

in

Various diplomatic correspondents of Nations and of the International assert that the Prime Minister and Commliter for Intellectual Co-opera-his colleagues discussed the question tion;

of the

The appointment of a new judge for the International Court at the Hague.

In well-informed English circles it! in doubted if the Chinese appeal will

to IndPatch to Berlin of a Note) $10,000,000 worth of antimony re

the grave consequences tulus, of which $7,000,000 worth went which would follow direct German through Shanghai, via Hongkong. action against the Czecho-Slovakian Nothing like this figure will be Government.

reached during 1938. In fact, it is A reassuring note was struck by estimated that if and when Honkow the London Times which says there talis, China's entire supply of anti- is nothing in yesterday's develop-mony will cease. lend to any concrete results.

ments in London to provoke fresh One assumes that the League

Most of the antimony is mined in the central Chirai around Hankow. Nations' Council will consider itself anxiety-rather the reverse is

The case.

situation in Central Wolfram ore is in a different posi- unable to go beyond its previous re- Europe has not suddenly become tion. It is chiefly mines in Kwang- solutions regarding "individual help"more alarming, the paper declares,

tung und is therefore still fairly

cf

of the League of Nations* members The Daily Herald describes the accessible. to China. At the same time it is' summoning of the Cabinet as a pre- Figures for recent years Indicate emphasised that China's netton In cautionary measure, and says

that that London does not buy very great Geneva could not but improve the either the Czech situation will im-quantities of antimony, and the bulk i legal political situation of

considerably during the next of China's exports are reported to be prove Kai-shuck's Government, Trans-three or four days or will have be sent to Russin, where there is a great Ocenn

come so critical that deelsions of demand for the regulus, which the gravest importance may have to used in the manufacture of metals. he taken-Reuter,

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Geneva, Sept. 8. The meeting of the League Assembly which opens to-morow is

Czecho-Slovaktin, and it is expected) that the League will to a large ex- tent mark time until the issues be- come clearer.

omens,

SCHOOL-CHILDREN

ON STRIKE

Prague, Sept. 9. German school children have pro- It is felt here that the League bas |

strike in Proppau where claimed a never met and worked under a

on Wednesday disturbances between darker sky or with more doubtful Gerinan women and children on the one hand and Czech Police on the M. Avenol, Secretary-General ofother occurred following a request the League, told a meeting of higher officials that the present meeting of the League is not only the most im- portant in the history of the League but the most vital for the world and for peace.

While the situation is viewed here, as in London, with calmness and hope, the greatest weight is attached to the talks expected to fake place between the British and French Foreign Ministers, Lord Halifax and M. Georges Bonnet, though neither is expected to arrive in Geneva before Turalay next week.-Reyter.

BONNET TO STAY.

SPAIN FOR LEAGUE

that the children forerd to attend Trans-Ocean.

should not be Czech schools.

JAPANESE DENY CHINESE CLAIMS

Shanghai, Sept. 9. Kwangtsi is denied by the Japanese The reported Chinese re-capture of military authorities here.

Is

French Strikes May Spread To All Ports

Bordeaux, Sept. 9. The requisitioning of the port of Marselles

dockers' following the strike there has threatened to preet-) pitate a rerious tie-up.

Dockworkers here have passed a resolution in support of the Marseilles strike and has urged the

demands the immediate annulment Labour Federation to strictly enforce the 40-hour week. The resolution

of the Marseilles deeree and requests Unofficial Japanese reports state that the Japanese

all dock werkers to join in opposing are continuing their advance on Harkow along the the decree. three Yangtse fronts. On the north-

Simultaneously, in Saint Bleuc

ern front the Japanese claim to have 180 stevedores have struck, demand- advanced to Chiehling, half-way being a three franc increase in their tween Kwangtal and Kichon, South daily ware-United Press, of the Yangtse, unofficial Japanese

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Paris, Sept. 0. Though it is officially stated that though M. Bonnet has not yet made up his mind. the fact that Lord reports state that the Japanese are Halifax and Colonel Buck have converging on Tehan, which is de

Marreilles, Sept. 8. TO - MORROW GINGER ROGERS - DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. Thirty detachments of the. Mobile delayed their departures for Geneva fended by at least twenty divisions

Guarits and hundreds of Police

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RKO-Radio tho will not leave for Geneva to-morrow Chi-shih,

patrolled Marseilles to-day as state that Japanese

they Government took over the seaport and night as he had intended.-Reuter,

Picture Kwang-requisitioned the dockworkers now closing in on

This town is only 2 miles clear the cargoes. south-west Of Mabwelling, which Six hundred workers stood by and Geneva, Sept.. D. fell to the Japanese two days ago.--!collected their wages, though rain Loyalist Spain will he represented | Reuter,

prevented much work being done.→

United Press, of the 102nd session of the Lunguo

Nations' Council of

beginning lo-day by the Prime Minister, Dr. Negrin, and Foreign Minister, Sennt Alvarez del

state well-in- formed Geneva circles. The Spanish Ambassadors in London and Paris! Senors Azearale and Pascua, and the Spanish diplomat M. Asua will be members to the Republican Spanish delegatlun.Trans-Ocean.

PRINCE ARTHUR'S STRENGTH IS DECLINING

London, Sept. 9. The earlier impressions prevalent regarding Prince Arthur of Con- naugh's illness have now proved incorrect, and an authoritative state- ment reveals that he is not suffering from gasirle trouble.

The

signed Latest bulletin

by

Lord Dawson of Penn, and Dr. C. P.) Wilson, Assistant Aural Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, states that the Prince's strength is declining.-—

-Reuter Special.

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Hongkong was a degree cooler: yesterday than on Wednesday, and two degres, cooler than on Tuesday. However, rain is still badly needed, the rainfall for the year being 45.14 inches, as compared with an average of 70.20 inches. Only a quarter of an inch of rain was recorded during the past 24 hours.

day

The maximum temperature yester

last was J0,

This morning the thermometer read 84, while humidity:

80 per cent.

night of 70 7th a minimum

Was

The Royal Observatory weather re- port issued this morning stated that pressure appears to be highest over the Pacifle to the east of the Mariana Islands, and a weak anti-cyclonic A de- area remains over China, pression is situated to the cast

moving south Formoso, probably northward.

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CHAPTER II

The Finale

HEAVY CASUALTIES IN ETHIOPIA

Rome, Sept. 8. Since January 1935 no less than

The Indo-Pacifique News Agency announces that the Claude Chappe 4,009 Italians have died in Ethiopia,

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