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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1938.

'Gentleman's' Peace Pact For Europe

PARIS, OCT. 31.

T IS DISCLOSED THAT HERR HITLER HAS

I

OFFERED FRANCE AGREEMENT" NOT TO

A "GENTLEMEN'S

RESORT TO WAR

FOR A PERIOD OF EITHER 10 OR 25 YEARS. M. Georges Bonnet, the Foreign Minister, received M. Franco Poncet's report of his talks with Herr Hitler.

It is regarded as almost certain that within a month

the several disputes between the totalitarian countries Hankow Martial Law

and the democracies will be liquidated, including:

Chinese 'Pipe-Line Through Hanoi

Paris, Oct. 31.

COMMENTING ON the Franco-

Japaneso issue arising from the reported supply of arms to China through French Indo- China, the "Action Francaise,”

organ of the Royalist Party

warns

that the

question

re-

that Germany will nounce any European terri- torial claims against France un the basis of a "Gentleman's Agreement";

France that

will establish normal relations with Italy;

re-

that the Anglo-Italian pact will be reinforced within a fortnight;

that the Non-Intervention Committee will grant the Loyalists and Insurgents in Spuin belligerent rights;

that Italy and Germany will peacefully arbitrate in the Czech-Hungarian frontier dis- pute-United Press,

Towns Blasted

threatens to impair the friendly By Air Raids

relations between the two countries,

The paper dueloars that informa- |

tion is in hand that recently about

40 fighting planes of the Doitine_type

In Spain

Madrid, Oct. 31.

and a number of bumbling planes Sevenly Weru killed and 200 were supplied from France to Chinn, wounded in a series of Insurgent air Reminding that the Japanese Gov-ralds on towns and villages in the ernment have already lodged more East Const.

than one protest with France regard- The must ser ous ran was at Aleiro. ing the matter, the paper calls atten- where bombs hit a train leaving the tion to the fact that Japanese war-station 21, and wounding 80. planes visited the frontier between One hundred bomb were dropper China and French Indo-China severni on Valencia. times.

the

Unless France discont.nues supply of arms, the paper asserts, it

Extensive damage was caused to the main streets and the sea front at Alicante by air raids-Reuter.

NOT

will eventually prove detrimental to MERCENARIES the interests of the Chinese people. ! -Domel,

Silver Act Repeal Urged In America

New York, Oct. 31. The New York State Chamber has published a report condemning etc. American silver polley, and urging the repeal of the Silver Purchase Act,

The report charges that the United States has become the "dumping ground" for foreign silver, which is costing the taxpayers more than billion dollars.

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It also alleges that the pulley "undermining the confidence of the nation's currency nt home and abroad."

Attention is drawn to the fact that American mines furnished only 13 the per cent. of the silver whichi Treasury received between June 30, 1034 and June 30, 1930, which means that foreign importers were the

beneficiaries greatest

under the system. The report adds that "China

the only

Important country wod the liver standard in 1934, and was intended to make her a benc- ficiary of the policy, instead of which she has become one of the vlelima, and is forced to adopt a standard of managed currency-United Pres.

GNEISENAU DUE

on

It

IN FRANCE

ALLOWED

Perpignan, Oct. 31.

. Under orders of the French Ministry for the Interior, permission to enter France, has been refused to 300, seriously wounded members of the International Brigade. The Spanish authorities at Forthou have been in- formed Decordingly.

Exception, however, was made in the case of those

French nationality, but when the decision was made known to the wounded aboard a train at the fronder, the French wounded dreided to stay with their comrades.

The French authorities are, taking precautions to prevent the train entering France under cover of night.

Stenter.

BOROUGH ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND' TO-DAY

London, Oct. 31. Voling takes place to-morrow in over 360 ellles and towns in Englund and Wales for the replacement of one-third of the Municipal Councils. There are 850 Labour, 402 Couser- vative, 97 Liberal, and 370 Indepen- 'dent candidates-British Wireless.

"Lone Battalion" Commemorates Evacuation

Chungling, Nov. 1.

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Brings Foreign Protests

HANKOW, Nov. 1.

MARTIAL LAW, which was proclaimed Inst night virtually

cuts off the former British Concession from the rest of Hankow, and 200 Britons residing in this concession are denied Ingress and egress as a result of the gates closing down at 6 p.m.

Norway Will Stay Neutral In Wars

Oslo, Oct. 31. Norway wishes to remain strictly neutral in any future

the

war.

This, according to Norwegian Foreign Minister. Dr. Koht is the basis of Norway's foreign policy.

The Foreign Minister, spraking on Sunday, added that Norway will not leave the League of Nations, be- cause the League may do important work political lines,

on

non-

In his opinion, the Pesce Treaty of Versailles was responsible for the Czecho- Slovak crisis at the end of September. Trans-Occan.

Big Majority Given To Dr. Salazar

Portugal Elections Result

Lisbon. Out. 31. The dual results of the elections which for the National Assembly were announced here to-day show that 622,313 voted for the National Party, which is 83.8 per cent. of all person:

to vote.

Theming majority of the

Portuguese

thus demonstrated that the Salazar Government has is tulf confidence.

of

The Lisbon press calls the outcome

the elections "the

the

greatest

Several prominent Britons uly reached their homes in Fyench Concession and elsewhere by :queez- ing through the bars of one of the ungarded gates, while others entered their front doors in buildings on the sitle and emerged through boundary. doors leading into other concessions. The latest restrictions are eatin: bitter comment. Spedal passe haueci by the British Consul-General, and countersigned by the Japanes gendarmerie, are not recognised.

It is understood that strong pintests are being made-Reuter,

MOUNTING CONCERN

Tokyo, Nov. 1. It is pointed out that the authori- ties of thir Powers and foreign merchants are showing increasing concern over their rights and in- Is in China following the fall of Hankow and Canton.

Messages from

Shanghai Indicate that the representatives of various Powers, including merchants, have been holding private meetings fre- quently since, some time ngo.

Foreign Powera were understood hitherto to have ben pursuing a

wait and see" policy.

With the fall of Hankow and Con- ton marking the beginning of the "reconstruction and rehabilitation of China," they are understood to be making definite efforts to maintain their economie influences and safe- guard their rights and Interests in Ching.

THE PICTURE above shown cno of Mime Chiang Kai-shek's emergency projects, the Refugee Children's Home In Hankow, where children were kept safe from Japanese bombers for a fow days or weeks until they could be sent to safety in the The photograph wan interior, one of several taken by Mme Chiang herself, that amazing svoman who, while actively helping her husband dleeet the Chinese armies and carrying on Innumerable welfare activides such as this, still has time to exercise her talent for photo- Araphy and write long letters in her American friends. Part of one of her letters follows:

"Friends of China who can- not help her in her fylting

should not be disappointed when we move further inland because That i The only strategy we can seɔpt against the heavy equipment of the Ja

Htut the Jurther, inland we go the more losten te sustain in they are going men and money. •

17- happily as the war ques on wy also lose. Greater grear 1 HING

of our country. Are SUNTIJA and more gente bremmes the problem of the refugeen and the children.

The great- est maas movement in history is taking place in China, and it is rendered possible only by the breakdown of treaties and international law.

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Political observers point out in this

The German Charge d'Affairs, Em- connection that the American notebassy Councillor M. Fischer, has which was presented to the Japanese arrived in Hongkong from Chungking Government on October 8, forms a material manifestation of the grow- ing tendency amon the foreign communities In China.--Domel.

Germans In Memel Fighting

electoral success hitherto scored by Shots Premier Salazar." The entire Por- tuguese people, so the papers declare, demonstrated that the era of dis- union when the nation was split into numerous small party groups belongs definitely to the past. Trans-Ocean.

Stock Market Has Mood Of Cautiousness

London, Oct. 31.

Fired In Clashos In Lithuania

MEMEL, Oct. 31. Clashes occurred in the Memel

on his way to Shanghai.

To-day, the Charge d'Afairs in the German Consulate-General, and in presence of the Consul-Ceneral, Mr. H. Gipperich and the local leader of the National Sucialist Party, Mr. M. Hess, hunded the recently awarded Cross of Merit of the German Rei Crom Order to Mr. Christion Kroeger of Messrs. Carlowitz und Co.

be It will

that Mr. recalled Kroeger was awarded the decoration in recognition of his services in cun- nection with the International Safety Zone in Nanking during the last months of last year and the Arst months of 1938.-Trans-Ociun.

England To Australia

village of Petrajahnen this In Two Days

morning between armed mem-j

bers of a Lithuanian rifle corps

and Memel Germans,

The Lithuanians shouted

abusive remarks at the Memel local inn.

Germans who had gathered in a

the

New Flight Attempt To Be Mado

ber

London, Oct. 31. The well-known aviators, Mr. C. When two officers of the W. A. Scott and Mrs. Kirby-Green, Memel - police asked the who some time ago made a record Lithuanians to keep quiet, they light from England to the Cope, are Pending the reassembly of Parlin-attacked the officers, the inn. Planning to leave England on Novem- ment to-morrow; operators on the Stack Exchange were not willing to keeper, his family and German England to Sydney, Australia, in two

7 in an attempt to By from day to extend commitments, and con- guests.

days. sequently the market was quiot, The furniture of

was They will use the Comel plane in though prices did not suffer.

demolished, and several shots were which Scott Several heavy industrials reached fired at the fleeing Germans. Called Melbourne race, and they will allow won the England to

their best prices early in the day, to the scene the police arrested themselves only half-an-hour but later they developed irregularity. | several Lithuanions. A

stoppage and refueling at each stoge All minings tended to ease, and This incident und similar ones of the route, which embraces Aleppo, elsewhere the changes were very throughout the Memel district are Karachi, Allahabad, Singapore and few.

having depressing effects оп the Darwin, Reuter. On the foreign exchanges, French German populution which hoped for political considerations caused 0 u change in the anti-German feeling nervous sale of francs, forward dis-in Lithuanin after the announcement counts especially widening. Wall of the abolishment of the state of Street was easy. then steadler-war to be made on November 1.-- Reuter Special,

· Tranz-Decan,

The "Lone Battallon" held a fing- raising ceremony in their concentra- Ilon camp yesterday morning in com- The N.D.L. Ilner Gneisenau is ex-memoration of thele evacuation from pected to arrive to-morrow at 6 am. † the godown in Chapel after a gallont She will berth alongside Kowloon stand against the Japanese on the Wharf and will leave here for Shang- same day last year, according to hat and Japan on Thursday at 10 am. | Shanghal message.-Central News.

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149 Die In Japanese Air Raid on Nanchang

Nanchang, Nov. 1.

One of the severest air raids in Nanchang was singed by 18 Japanese planes yesterday,

Altogether 149 civilinns were killing the once thriving and densely- ed and 183 wounded during the wan- populated sections such us Chung- ton attack, Shops and residences | shan Rond, Chunscheng Road, demollated totalled 198.

Kuohwo Road, and Huangchinhang,

At least 300 bomba were rained In- Lingyingchino and Fukuhang to a discriminately over the city, reduc- shambles-Central News.

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London, Oct. 31.

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POLES RETURN ΤΟ HOMES

Berlin, Oct. 31. The Secret Police spokesman said to-day that all Polish Jews not sent across the frontier, were returned to their homes during the week-end. The Postmaster General has delle added that those held in goats had cided to introduce two new stamps been released. of new denominations and differeni

for

BRITISH ENVOY TO MEET CHIANG

Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, the British Ambassador to Chinn, and his party arrived in Kwelyang from Yunnan shortly after noon yesterday according to a Kwelyang report.

It is understood that the diplomat Vienna despatches, stats that only a leaving Kweiyang by car to-day designs from those now printed for a few Jews have been released as yet, for Hengyang, where he will pro- Chiong use in connection with the parcel post technicalities

enused the bably meet Generalissimo having service-British Wireleis.

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