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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938.

LEAGUE ΤΟ INTERVENE IN CHINA Article 17 of Covenant Will

Covenant Will Be Applied,

Be Applied, Reports State

Dr. WELLINGTON KOO WINS GREAT GENEVA BATTLE

GENEVA, Sept. 19.

T IS UNDERSTOOD that the League Council has decided to comply with China's request for the application of Article 17 of the League Covenant and will now approach Japan undor the articlo's provisions and suggest mediation in the dispute in China.

Japanese observers here expect that Japan will reply but will refuse the invitation.

If thereafter the League fails, as is expected, to effect automatic sanctions against Japan under Article 16 of the Covenant this will be the first official repudiation of that article.

Some Chinese circles in Geneva believe that one of the effects of the Council's decision will be to induce the

DR. WELLINGTON KOO

will

Serious Water Problem Certain Before April

***To survive the next six months is the problem confronting the Government. An acute water shortage during winter months appears inevitable, and we are in for a period of drastic curtailment of supplies."

These words were used by a Government ofcial this morning in describing the present water shortage in Hongkong. The Colony'a reservoirs hold only sumclent water for four months supply and very little rain is expected before April or May next year.

While officials do not hide the the thermometer sonred to 87, with fact that the acute shortage of humidity at 73 per cent.

The weather report states that as water in Hongkong is worrying anti-cyclone is developing them, Government is doing China, and pressure continues rela- everything possible to cope with tively low in a trough extending the abnormal situation created from Indo-Ching to the Curolines. by the Colony's record drought Depressions are indlented over Man..

churia and South Japan; and the influx of refugees from China.

The three-year plan recommended by the Water Engineer, Mr. Wood-' ward, is being pushed on to com- pletlon at a cost of over $3,000,000.

result the following import- As a ant works have been completed and will contribute towards easing the

AMERICAN

PROTEST

water supply problem once heavy TO JAPAN

rains are recorded:

elties, because Nanchang is very im- portant, being

gateway to further Japanese conquests in South China.

The Japanese occupation of Nan chang also means the cutting off of the real Chinese forces in cast Klangsi and Cheklang which

Construction of supply mains, iessen the Chinese pressure on Hunchow. The Japanese at Nan-pumping stations, and the Peak Road chang will also be able to threaten tank, which will enable Shing Mun the entire length of the Canton water to be distributed to higher

levels on the Island. Hankow railway in Hunan.

Nanchang's population is now only 80,000, compared with 300,000 in peace time.United Press.

United States to apply the Neutrality Act against Japan.

Dr. Wellington Koo, the according to a Chinese communique, Chinese delegate, presented also Rooted large quantities of gas less

down wind. China's appeal to-day in the clearest terms.

Chinese casualties were heavy but the report does not state what sort He recalled that during the of gas was used.-United Press. past 14 months China hind appealed to the League to take action no less than four times. Now the aliuntion'

for was aggravated by Japanese nggression,

com which was greatly extended pared

to what it was the previous appeals were made.

more

More ruthless and more atrocious methods, such as poison gas, are being used to slaughter the Chinese troops in an ever-increasing scale," Dr. Koo nileged,

Japanese Threat

NANCHANG, Sept. 20.

Advance Being Resisted

HANKOW, Sept. 20.

lines

has

over

U.S. Consul General's Representations

The tender of A. firm in England for the supply and laying of new Strong protest against the harbour pipe

been bombing of the Stout Memorial accepted. This work will start on Hospital-an American institu- November I and should be com-

tion at Wuchow, has been picted in six months. Two new harbour lines are to be lodged with the Japanese Consul- addition to giving General in Hongkong by the laid, and in special treatment to the bed of the American Consulate. harbour, the new pipes will be coated with a special concrete preparation to prevent corroding. be torn up, and the pipes used for land purposes as it has not been found practicable to repair them for use across the harbour.

The Nanchang-Kiuklang front headquarters issued a Statement yesterday indicating that the Chinese

A strong Japanese column is mak- positions are being firmly held three miles north of Tehan and at Yikow, ing south from Julchang along the midway between Teltan and Hising-Nanchang Wuchang highway, about ze, but that a serious Japanese threat 15 calles southwest of Tehnn, accord- ry authorities has developed with the movement of ing to Chinese Military

strong column of Japanese troops here, who, claim that the monoeuvre The existing harbour pipe line will south from Juichang to

outflank Tehin und the is apparently cut cha, about 15 miles Nanchang-Wuchang highway at Pal- directly threaten Nanchang,

southwest of Fighting continued to-day at Yikow, mid-way betweon Tehan and Hsingisc. The Japanese advance is seven miles beleg bitterly resisted north of Tchan, on the main line and half way between Tehan and Hsing- tse.

Tchan.

"China has every reason to expect that the member States will keep faith with her, as she kept faith with them," decinted Dr. Koo.

This operation, sald a spokesman, He urged the application of Article is important since, if it is successful, 17 and that full effect be given im-Tehon will be outflanked and Nan

chang directly threatened. The mediately to the previous resolutions, particularly, that there should be an Japanese will also be able to move embargo .on essentials, and that northwest measures should be taken to prevent the use of polson gus and Indis

criminate bombing-Reuter,

Chemical Warfare

HANKOW, Sept. 20.

The new piges will be 21 Inches diameter instead of the existing 18 inch pipes.

•

NEW CATCHMENT

The protest was made upon the advice of Mr. Robert Linnell, Ameri- can Consul-General in Canton, who gave the Hongkong information of the

sald

Consulate detailed

Mr. Addison E. SUnited States Consul-General for Hongkong this morning that the protest, which was of the usual formal nature, was lodged with the Japanese Consul-General on Sunday.

formal acknowledgment had been received, but insuficient time from Palcha toward Chinese troops have cut the high-

On the mainland several new had elapsed to permit of any reply Wuchung and also west to Hsienning way on the northern slope of Tapleh important works are either in the from Tokyo. to cut the Canton-Hankow Railway. Mountain in order to prevent the course of being effected or are now In the protest the Consul-General Chinese troops are being rushed to Japanese advance from Shangsheng completed. The first section of the informed the Japanese authorities of Pafcha to built the Japanese advance. to Macheng, while crock troops are noteworthy Taimoshan catchwater the fact that in the course of air raids The autumn fall of water in rushing up to defend Hsinyang-scheme has just been finished, and on Wuchow the Stout Memorial Poyang Lake, said the spokesman, United Press,

rains come, additional Hospital bad been bombed, and a combined with strong Chinese pos!-

water will be sent into the Shing request was made that this violation Man Dam,

should not be repeated.

in the Wuchang peninsula

M.C.L. SPORTS

Large scale chemical warfare Istions reported to have been resorted to in commanding the south-west portion very severe battles on Saturday and of the lake, nullided any Japanese The sale of children's work of the Sunday on the Julchang-Wuning threat to Nanchang from that quar- Peak Branch of the M.C.L. will be highway, where the Japanese are

opened by Mrs. A. Murdoch at 153, hard pressed.

Military authorities here still hold The Peak, to-morrow at 4 o'clock. that the Japanese are intending to The usual children's sports will be take Nanching as well as the Wuhan held. and tea will be served.

Gas bombs and gas shells are said to have been used and the Japanese,

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ng soon 35

Tenders for the second section have already been accepted and the work will start forthwith,

The third section will be put in hand by the spring of next year, and the fourth and final section by the end of 1030.

When this work is completed there

COLONY'S

REFUGEE

will be catchment, six miles long. PRECAUTIONS

taking water from 3.050 acres of the Taimoshan hillside, and will," it Is

confidently estimated, solve Hong- Government Constructs

kong's wa

water problem, no matier how

Concentration Camp

Should there be a sudden in-

small the rainfall during the year.

Meanwhile tenders have been call- ed for the construction of 1

new service reservoir at Kowloon Tsal, which is just above Kowloon Tong,vasion of south China by the and work on this is expected to start Japanese, with 菲 consequent next month. With this scheme goes rush of Chinese refugees over the laying of a pipe line to the the border into the New Terri- reservoir, which will be started next tories, Government has made

year,

All this work, together with addi-arrangements for their prolec- tions to the distribution system ention in a concentration camp. both

sides of the harbour, forms the This fact was revealed by a $3,000,000 scheme approved by the Government spokesman to-day when Legislative Council last year. The interviewed by the Telegraph, work greatly assist in giving Hongkong a better water supply, but it is not cap able of solving the immediate prob- lem, and so far as this is concerned, Government can merely hope that there will be early spring rains, or even rains later this month.

work already accomplished wit Since December last he disclosed

ACUTE SITUATION IS ADMITTED

Government has borne in mind such an eventuality as a mass invasion of Chinese refugees over the border and had devised a plan to deal with such a contingency.

However, he wat

would not divulge where the concentration camp was siluated, but said that it was rendy for an emergency, and was capable of being used immediately,

The prospects, however, are not This is in addition to the refugee bright, and officials frankly admit camps situated in Kowloon, and, t that an acute situation is certnin Is believed; is chiefly concerned with during the winter months,

the possible problem of handling

By next summer, the present refugee Chinese soldiers who might scheme will have advanced to such cross the border.

a stage that even

abnormally

poor rainfall, there is not likely to

be the same water shortage, as two

seellons of the Talmostian catchment

will be in operation, and will be

War Office

rending millions of additional gallons Announces

the Shing Mun Dam.

The Jublice Reservoir

at Shing

Mun, which has a enpacity of 3,000 Promotions

million gallons,” is at

than one-third füll.

present less

With Shing Mun, we are in the

position of an owner of an expensive *

LONDON, Sept. 20.

car who has not sufelent petrol to The War Ofce announces that drive it," an official said.

To survive the

next

about 1,000 non-commissioned six or nine officers will be promoted on October months is the problem confronting 1. to warrant omeer class. Three

the Government, he added,

Further restrictions are inevitable, although whether they will be effect ed next week, or next month, officials will not at the moment say.

RAIN LIKELY

will hold command of platoons equivalent to the sub-units which have hitherio been, commanded by Subaltern officers.

ft

This is the first batch of promotiona which form a corollary to the recent changes in the conditions of service. The War Office also announces that Dry, gasping Hongkong Is still

new section of the Army Reserve waiting for rain. None feil during is to be opened to penstoned warrant the last 24 hours, but the. Royal officers and non-commissioned Observatory hold out some hope of emeers, to provide a supply of men mild relief in the local forecast issued this morning which stated:

North-east winds, fresh, cloudy generally, probably some rain.

Meanwhile local rainfall for the year aggregates 46.48 inches, which la only a fraction less than 28 inches below the average..

for posts no warrant officers and non- commissioned officers in the event of mobilisation, thus replacing the existing arrangement: whereby most of these posts are filled on mobilisa- tion from the aerving peace time personnel, who are thus withdrawin at a time when they are most re- Temperature remained fairly high quired, yesterday, the maximum being 4.88 The new section will be called sec and the minimum. 79. This morning | tion E-Reuter Special,citad

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