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THE CZECHS" HISTORIC|FIRE SWEEPS CANTON

HOMELAND

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Sa Canton's

China Hotel and the 14-storey Ol Kwan Hotel, which biggest skyscraper,

The French Doumer hospital caught alire half-an-hour after the patients were evacuated to the Hackett Memorial Hospital.

Y.M.U.A. DYNAMITED The YM.C.A. was evacuated

the

COLONY'S FUTURE AFTER THE FALL

OF CANTON

(Continued from Page 1.) dowing with refugees, now Ands Itself cut off from all communications with the interior of China.

NEW JUSTICE: OF APPEAL

London, Oct 12 Sir Herbert du Parcq, a Justice of the King's Bench, has been ana pointed Lord Justice of Appeal, In place of Sir Frederick Grear, who has resigned.

Mr. Wingtringham Slable, x.c., has been appolated a Justice to the King's BenchReuter.

choso as their King Frederick, the Protestant Elector Palatine of the Rhine. This monarch was the son-in-law of our own

The Sunday Times Focs on to King James I. and VI. and lived

observe that even more important to become the father of Princo

than the question of the future at The former describes it as a dock- Rupert of the Civil War, the

Hongkong. Is that of the future of alve, perhapa a mortal blow to the grandfather of King George I order to allow a Japanese in ne British trade with Ching in general, Chinese defence, and declares that 18

for oven it thero is no military attack and hence the ancestor of all our squad to blow up the building in an

would not be surprised to hear rou on the British colony by the Japanese, ports of fresh attempts at mediation Foreign residents alded subsequent monarchs. Frederick effort to create a fire break.

have accepted, the Japanese in an attempt to isolate the it is to be feared that severe damage on the part of the British and French appears to

must be reckoned with for British

governments. The paper adds that throne with the good will of blazes, but without success.

commercial interests.

there are circles in London where The amateur fre-Aghters were James's people, but no help from hopelessly

In this connection the paper recalls economic catastrophe for Hongkong handicapped by the

that influential circles in Japan have feared, and dwells also on the James himself. Known as the absence of water, the dynamiting of

British in the Far Enst. on Friday,

Japanese policy in South China may one year-from 1619 to 1620. A before they evacuated

The paper reproaches Mr. Ramsay have on French Indo-China and Roman Catholic League, includ-completely disrupting water supplies.

Dynamite was the only weapon the MacDonald's Govemment with have British India.

The Stampa declares that the occul- ing Spain, Italy,, Poland and Japanese could use, and throughouting Interrupted construction of the Bavaria, formed against him, the day loud explosions testified to naval base in Singapore in 1929, with and on Nov. 8, 1620, Bohemian the fact that it was being detonated the result that Japan had been en-pation of Canton, and the certain British early conquest of Hankow, places the freely in attempts to create fire-abled to out-distance the

word finis to the Sino-Japanese war. indepenco was lost at the battle breaks.

Neot-Trans-Ocean, dames,

The paper says that Chiang Kai-shek after destroying of the White Mountain, a few The

goes to swell the group of Tafari, Wongsha, travelled towards the Sal-

Benes and their comrades, and blames miles from Prague.

chuen area, vomiting up the dregs of

the British policy under Mr. Stanley The so-called Counter-reforma-civilian refugees from the city's slum

Baldwin for the Chinese collapse be- tion began, and Bohemia, which

cause they were encouraged to hope contained 3,000,000 people at the

for support that could not be given. beginning of the Thirty Years' War, mostly Protestants, emer- ged at the end with 880,000, all nominally Roman Catholica. Nobles and burghers emigrated; peasants were kept to the soll and crushed after repeated OPENING risings. The Sudeten German installations appear to have been

Protestants had suffered to-

OF GUEST Winter King," he reigned only the city's reservoirs by the Chinese not contented their desire to destroy political reaction which the active

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Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

gether with the Czechs. But

now there was a fresh Influx of German Roman Catholics.

areas.

"Owing to fear that they would be incinerated the authorities were forced to release all Inmates of the leper settlement and insane asylum, as well as prisoners from the civic gaol.

WATERFRONT BLAZE

Across the Pearl River at Honam, the British wharves and foreign oil completely gutted.

The fres wycro BLIIN Bercely raging this morning at Honam and In the western parts of Canton proper, but Shameen is now con- sidered safe.

Canton's famous silk street.

containing rich textiles and silks of fabulous value, was swept from end to end.

A computation of the damage wrought by the flames places it at well over 250,000,000. What the Japanese attempted to do In twelve months' savage_bombings was accomplished by the Chinese in. two days.

Among the Czech refugees who escaped to England was Komensky (or Comenius), the educationist, who first produced an illustrated book for children, and Wenceslas Hollar, whose etchings show London before the Great Fire. Bohemia had been culturally one of the most ad-

LOOTERS ACTIVE vanced countries of Europe. Jesuits and soldiers now exter-

Canton, Oct. 24. minated all Hussite literature; Japanese patrols yesterday oven- one priest boasted of having him-ing stood on guard outside the shops on the Shakee front where looters self burnt 60,000 Bohemian were creating havoc. Three or four volumes.

persistent looters who opposed

soldiers' ordern were Japaneso WITHIN THE EMPIRE bayonetted and they are now lying After the French Revolution on the Shakee Bund in pools of blood. When the Japanese patrol with- it was possible again to be a Pro- drew, however, the looters immedi- testant. Literary; and historical ately returned.

The behaviour of The troops societies began to organise a nahitherto has been exemplary, accord- tionalist movement still forbid-ing to the accounts of foreigners who den to take, political forms. I visited the

city. Looting has been checked wher When freer speech was allowed, }

ever

possible, but owing to the small the demand was not for separa- number of Japanese in the elty, tion from the Austrinn Empire, totalling approximately 1,300, the but

for a restoration of the rights enjoyed before 1620. Hungary was successful in 1867 in obtaining her own national rights in that Empire; to have done the same for Bohemia would have meant placing the Sudeten Germans in a minority a policy favoured by certain of the advisera of the Emperor Francis Joseph but never accom- plished till after the war, when the Czechs of Bohemia were re- united at last with their Slovak kinsmen.

NO MAJOR CHANGES

IN CABINET

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STILL A RAGING INFERNO

Canton, Oct. 24. At nightfall yesterday the city was

raging inferno, with mammoth fire east of the Bund area being fanned towards the clly, and developing into a tremendous area, measuring between Ave and six square miles.

The conflagration on the Shakee waterfront has died down as a result of a change in the direction of the

the magnificent efforts the Shameen Volunteers, who tolled ceasely all day yesterday.

Greatest tribute must be paid to the organisers of the

Are

fighters, who Brea group of German residents.

Unless there is a fresh outbreak in the area between the British bridge and Wongsha, the prospect of Sha- meen being involved is very slight, Nevertheless the authorities are not relaxing emergency measure, and naval units and volunteers were keep- It is pointed out that Governmenting a watch all night on the roofs of machinery already exisin through buildings and from other vantage which a great deal'could be done, pointa.

Sir John Anderson has been men-ey tioned in this connection.

such

the compilation of n Old residents who went through National Register, and, despite eri- previous Communist up-rising and ticisms, much already has been a civil wars state that never before complished, and the armament in their experience was there a day programme is steadily rising into yesterday,

volume.

Captain Euan Wallace is mention ed as a likely candidate for one of the vacancies in the Cabinet,

Captain David Margesson has been regarded by many in high quarters as an ideal First Lord of the Ad- miralty, but there is reason to be- lleve that he may not wish to leave h's present post as chief Government Whip.

PREMIER'S RETURN

Mr. Neville Chamberlain's return from Chequers to-morrow morning marks the beginning of another week of political activity.

reluct

Two terrific explosions occurred in the city yesterday which shook Sha- meen. and blew in the window frames of the Royal Dutch Consulate, even uprooting the floor boards. The steel Shanghal Bank were also blown to winde frames of the Hongkong and Amithereens, debris flying in the road- way after the concussion, while the had to leave their home. Swiss Consul and his family have

Following yesterday morning's ex- plosion, the keepers at the lunatic asylum at Paakhettung, across the Pearl River from Shameen, fled leaving 800 mental Inmates uncared for.

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ITALIAN COMMENT

Rome, Oct. 23. The occupation of Canton evokes considerable comment in the Italian press, notably the Voce d'Italia and Stampa.

Although great relleence is ob- British navalmen camo to the served in official circles regarding rescue and supplied 80 bags of rice new appointments to the Cabinet, in order to give them en evening there la growing feeling in political meal-Reuter. circles that the Duke of Devonshire, at present Under-Secretary of State for the Dominlans, may become the new Dominions Secretary. It is also thought that Captain Margesson may be persuaded to overcome ance to relinquish his position chief Whip, and to accept the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, ro- cently vacated by Mr. Duff Cooper.

The question of whether the Anglo-Italian pact can now be rail- fled is expected to be discussed by the British Cabinet on Wednesday, when, if the Ministers feel the time is in Hongkong are discounted" by is now ripe, a date will be fixed with | Japanese reports, which stain that he Italy on which the pact will become is definitely in Chungking. effective.

The Japanese report continues that Prior to that date Parliament will! an important conference is being held be given an opportunity to discuss in the Chinese capital. In säätimm the matter in accordance with the to Mr. Wang Ching-wei, fi là attended Prime Minister'a pledge to the House" by Omersfluimo Chlán – KAP-SERI of Commons---Rester.

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