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三拜禮號五月十一英港香

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5,

1938.

日二十月八

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No. 19041

NEWS ON OTHER PAGES

The Prize Winners in the Hongkong “Telegraph's" Eighth

Annual Photographic Competition are announced on Page Seven. Other Front Page news:

LONDON

Labour has ́launched a vigorous opposition to The Munich Agreement Page Threo.

CHINA

Tho Chinese counter- offentivo slong the Yangtse front it still meeting with unprecedented success . . . Page Five.

EUROPE

Hungary has presented a now - Noto

Czecho- Slovakia... Page Four.

to

ANGLO-ITALIAN

ACCORD NEARER

Rome Talks Are Solving Problems

(Special to "Telegraph")

(Telecommunication Ordinance, #5. Copyright by United Press. Receteri

p.ni. Published 2.30 14.7.

ROME, Oct. 4.

TH

THE ANGLO-ITALIAN TALKS being carried on between Count Ciano and Lord Porth are rapidly solving the differences and preparing the way to "wipe the slate clean" and put into effect the already prepared Anglo-Italian pact.

The agreement is understood to include Signor Mussolini's pledge to make a token withdrawal from Spain, the putting into effect of the Anglo-Italian pact. and British recognition of the annexation of Ethiopia.

It is said that the two

Heavy Air Raids In Interior

Japanese Planes Go Further Inland

HANKOW, Oct. 5. IANGSI, HUNAN AND K

HUPEH were yester- day visited by Japanese planes which staged air raids and conducted exten- sive reconnaissance.

Herr Hiller, Germany's Leader and Chancellor.

THIS PHOTOGRAPH presents an almost perfect picture of peace. The gunboat is the new H.M.S. Scorpion, to be used in China. It will shortly leave England for the long voyage to the Far East where it will probably be attached to the

Yangiso patrol.

Herr Henteln, leader of

the Sudeten Gerouns.

Field Marshal Goering.

Chief of the Air Force.

1938 DUN LOP

33 YEARS OF GROWTH-

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyra with 2,000 Teeth

Maiden Speech In Lords By Baldwin

LONDON, Oct. 4.

ORD BALDWIN made his maidon speech in the House of Lords to-day when ho spoke on the international situation.

Lord Baldwin said he knew little of what passed between the Chancelleries of Europe, but he knew enough to know that when the Prime Minister took the decision to go to Berchtesgaden no other man could have done what he did during the discussions in Germany. ›

Herr Hess, who is Herr Hitler's deputy.

The five leaders of the German peoples who made the "bloodless war" a victory.

Dr. Goebbels, the Minister of Fropaganda.

CZECH-POLE CUSTOMS UNION

diplomats have so nearly reached Relations Between Two Nations Take Turn for Better

agreement that it will

be unnecessary for Signor Mussolini and Mr. Chamberlain

to see each other.

accord

is

After Anglo-Italian reached and verified Britain will,

believed, (it is

press.. for

al

simllar understanding between

Italy

France and

It is considered significant that a International commissioner, neutral

will visit M. Hemining of France, Burgos this week, M. Hemming will be in ir position facilitate the Italian withdrawal.

to

to

Is learned from reliable sources It Is that

agreed Italy has already withdraw considerable numbers of withdraw con

her forces in spain in view of the Loyalists decision to demobilise their volunteers. No decision has been reached, however, regarding speciu-

lists, such as pilots and anti-aircraft and tank experts.

Italian

bave correspondents stopped mentioning the activilles of Italian legionnaires.-United Press.

FRANCE TO RECOGNISE ANNEXATION

Yungaiu, south of Tchan was bombed three times by the Japanese raiders. The first raid

PARIS, Oct. 4. was staged at 11 o'clock in the

M. Georges Bonnet, the French morning, the second at 2 p.m. Foreign Minister, has informed the and the third shortly after 2 alan Charge d'Affaires that France p.m. The invaders released n has decided to send an Ambassador number of bombs Inside and to Home. outside the town.

No French Ambassador been appointed to Home since the The same machines later conducted | Italian conquest of Abyssinia, since reconnaissance over Nanchang and Als credentials would have to be ad- Klan, about, 123 miles to the south dressed to the King of Italy and the Emperor of Ethiopia. The fatest West

The air rald 'alarm was sounded in decision conveys a de jure French provincial capital of recognition of the Italian annexation. Henan, at Z o'clock in the afternoon-Reuter. when a squadron of Japanese planes were sighted over the Hunan-Hupeh border.

Changsha,

FRANCO-ITALIAN ACCORD

Paris, Oct. 4.

(Continued on Page 4.)

The aircraft, however, failed lo Three important items were dealt reach the city, but reconnoltred over (Continued on Page 4.).

250

People

Seeks Aid For CZECH GOVERNMENT

Non-Nazi

Germans

LONDON, Oct. 4. HERR JAKSCH, the

leader of the Ger- man Sudeten Social De- mocrats, has arrived in London to seek assist- ance for the non-Nazi refugees from the Sude- districts. — Reuter

ten

Special.

RE-ORGANISED

PRAGUE, Oct. 5.

SOMETHING in the nature of a customs union between

Czecho-Slovakia and Poland is envisaged by Dr. Benes, the Czech President, according to information from Czech sources.

In his last broadcast the President clearly hinted that his future policy would be aimed at achieving a closer co-operation between the two peoples..

POGROM COMMENCES

WIRE USED

TO TIE UP "BAD" CHILD

The Premier's perform- ance is one for which his country owes him much," said Lord Baldwin.

"One of our greatest difficulties during the past five years has been how to get into contact with the dictators of Europe, and it troubled me, long before I was Prime Minister, since the time they scrapped the machinery of normal diplo- macy.

"If you want to get anything by to them it has to be told them directly by a man with a policy."

Lord Baldwin added that it was hard for a democratic Prim: Minis- ter to commit himself in the same munner as a man with absolute the risk which power. That was must be taken unless they were wil- ing to ostracise the dictators com- pletely

with

results which must be disastrous to the whole world.

After remarking that war different to-day from what it was up

was

to the last three or four years, Lord Baldwin said "no Prime Minister ought to commit this country to wur unless he in convinced that the coun try is ready.

my. entire "I wish to express agreement with those who would push on to bring our defences-to a least sallstaciory point with The

delay." Recalling the dramatic incidents

House

Commons last in the week, when Lord Halifax received the historic

message from Herr Hitler in the middle of the Prime Lord. Baldwin

gold had drawn a rainbow once more across the

sky and ratified the God's covenant with again

Foster-Mother In Court mid that it was "just as if a finger

On Cruelty Charge

A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD boy children of men.

who was described by the Police! "These children of the men of all as a "bad character" became to nations have their part to pay now mother had to tie him up with May the rulers of all nations be rope and, when that proved in-knowledge understanding effective, with a chain, and last- ly, with wire.

difficult to control that his foster in these fleeting hours before us.

given a

Now, following the cession of to help the miner victims of the

This morning the foster mother, Olsa to Poland and the reassur-Czech coalfields now incorporated

Chan Shi, 38, was charged at Cen- ing pronouncements from War into the Reich-Reuter.

tral Police Court with ill-treating Raw, all friction between the

the child at Shek Kip village. two States has been removed,

Carlsbad, Oct. 4. The accused was arrested when especially since the Czech-Soviet A pogrom has broken out in the she was noticed having on argument

larger cities of the ceded areas. At with the boy in the street, Eger, Franzensbad, and Carlsbad, A constable intervened and wivio shops have been daubed with paint and notices written on the window: "Jow, racial defilers."--United Press.

pact has now practically lost its

NEW BLOOD effectiveness as a consequence and in other smaller villages, Jewish Chan, said the boy had run away for

TRANSFUSION INVENTION

Used For Japanoso Soldiers In China

TOKYO, Oct. 5. WHILE CHINESE SOLDIERS DIE for want of attention after

In Scramble being wounded, Japan's Army

of the developments of the past few weeks.

Czecho-Slovakia must look to one or other of its neighbours for cons!- derable economio co-operation if it is to exist at all-and the only states which can provide kuch co-operation Jare Germany and Poland..

Dr. Benes, apparently, has chosen to use Poland as his country's chlet buttress-Trans-Ocean.'".

BRITISH GUARANTEES NOW OPERATE

NEW CZECH CADINET

Prague, Oct. 4. Reports of the reconstruction of the Czech Cabinet are circulating [here.

the youth said he had tied up for three days without food.

When the two were taken to the station it was found that the boy, Tam Cho-yim, was well known and had been mixed up in several petty larcenles.

The defendant wept bitterly in the dock and declared that she had been It seems that in order to acquire a repeatedly requested by neighbours firmer basis some of the old leaders to exercise more control over. Tam,

(Continued on Page 4.)

(Continued on Page 4.)

Tropical Rains Add

To Colony's Supplies

and

Lord Baldwin's speech was dc- livered in ringing tones which are unusual in the House of Lords and the attention of the entire House was captured. The brevity of the speech... added to its effectiveness-Revier.

STOP PRESS

Battalion Remains In Singapore

The East Surrey Regiment who were unexpectedly disembarked at Singapore on their way from Eng- land by the troopship Lancashire, will stay there until It Is. convenient to move them to Shanghal.

London, Oct 4. Lord Inskip, answering a question Medical Corps has just added an- whether the British guarantee to Czecho-Slovakia is already operating, other and revolutionary depart-announced to-day in the House of ment to its field equipment Commons that, though the formal For Accommodation

A timely and welcome increase to the water storage In "blood deposite" from which an guarantee by treaty is yet to be drawn up and completed and some matters

In their place, the Seaforth High- landers have returned from Hong- Two hundred and fifty people were unexpectedly landed in adequate supply of human blood will await settlement between the Hongkong was made during the last 24 hours, as a result of

relieve the kong to Shanghal to Hongkong yesterday, and they began a mad scramble to obtain of the various classifications Governments concerned, and although heavy rainfall which brought 2.23 inches during that period,

can be drawn at any time in until that is done: technically the

The year's rainfall now totals 62.83 phong. Another typhoon is situated Durham Light Infantry who, in turn, guarantee could not be said to be in accommodation in the already overcrowded city.

cashire Regiment at Tientsin.

Tho They were the stranded passengers of the M.M. liner, case of emergency blood trans- force, the Government feels under a inches, as compared with an average about 250 miles E.S.E. of Manila, will take over from the East Lan-

moving north-west, necessary for

to of 78.91 inches. moral obligation to the Czechs

Yesterday's maximum temperature latter will go to their next 'post in treat the guarantee as being already During the past 48 hours over four Chenonceaux which ran aground outside Lyemun early on Tues-fusions being

force.

inches of rain have been recorded, was 82 and the minimum last night India.

The Lancashire departed for day morning, and which has now gone into dry dock for wounded soldiers.

The method of storing blood in repairs to a damaged rudder and propeller shaft.

definitely and in such a way that it: Therefore, in the event of an actin round figures, this means that 70. This morning the thermometer Dut is to be carried

aggression against about 100,000,000 tons of water have registered 81 while humidity was 89 Shanghai at 7 a.m. to-day. Tremendous diffeuilles were ex-survey

can be easily shipped from Japan of unprovoked perienced by the large number of the ascertain the damage caused by her proper to the mainland was discover- Czecho-Slovakia the British Governt fallen over the Colony.

More rala is likely according to the

GIRL KILLED BY LANDSLIDE passengers, who landed to find the collision with rocks outside of the ed by Dr. Yoichiro Azuma, of the ment would certainly feel bound to

Two days' heavy rain in Hongkong hotels and boarding houses on both harbour. It is believed that the Kumamoto Medical University, who take all steps in its power to see that local weather forecast Issued this sides of the harbour almost full to rudder and propeller shaft have been has developed and improved the the integrity of Czecho-Slovakin was morning, which states:-East winds,

fresh; cloudy, showery, improving has resulted in the death of at least seriously damaged, but it is im- normal western method of keeping preserved. Reuter.

later.

one person and the collapse of the overflowing.

possible to state at the moment how blood supplies for transfusions, call- As a result of this sudden influx of long the liner is likely to remain in ing for elaborate apparatus to main-

The weather report states that the root of two houses in the heart of the tain constant temperatures,

anti-cyclone which formed over elty, unexpected visitors, practically all

dock.

A little girl, the daughter of a available accommodation here has

Because of this, arrangements have,

The success of the Japanese doc-

China has moved eastward to the Son

now been taken up.

(Continued on: Page #.) been made for the Chenonceaux Meanwhile the Chenancekuk-hai passengers to continue their journey for's experiments was crowned re- Mina Workers Federation of Great of Japan. The typhoon is probably mendicant was buried beneath

(Continued on Page 43

Billing up to the north-east of Haj- gone Into Taikoo dockyard, where alto Europe by other ships.

to

AID FROM `MINERS

London, Oct. 4. The Executive Committee of the Britain has decided, to give £1,000

per cent.

a