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JEW

NOVEMBER 22, 1938.

REFUGEES

HERE, TELL OF NAZI TERROR IN GERMANY

Boycott Of Goods Urged

Plight Of

Fled Penniless War Victims

For Christmas From Homeland

LONDON, Nov. 21.

ROYCOTT of Japanese goods

hy Christmas shoppers is

by (1: South Walex Breed Miners' Federation ist is monthly bulletin. which says:

"People who buy cheap Japan- ese toys and novelles are help- ing to purchase raw materials by Japan for war on China. Only becRURE of the dreadful the Japanese wages paid workers can models of bombing ceroplanes and bombs, signifl-

cant of Japanese actions, be sold for a penny or twopence. Only becauso people buy these things can real bombs be dropped from real aeroplanes of cities in China-Reuter.

2,000 DEAD IN CHANGSHA HOLOCAUST

Four-Fifths Of City Razed By Fire

TOKYO, Nov. 22.

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN German and Austrian Jews, refugees from Nazi persecution, reached Hongkong this morning on board the Italian Liner Conte Verde from Trieste.

Only one or two of the refugees landed at Hongkong. The others have all booked through to Shanghai for which port the Conte Verde sails at 1 p.m. to-day.

There were at least 211

children and the same number!

of women among the refugees. CHINESE

"Yes, we are German Jews," they |

sold in the smoke-room. "We are all RESISTANCE

going through to Shanghai."

In a conversation with one of the

refugees, an Austrian, it was revealed STILL STRONG

that he spent 12 weeks in prison.n Vienna before being allowed

leave the country.

to

"I served in the Airstrian army fo the Great War and won the highest i

word for bravery.

"Now I

Job,

List.

penalltas,

British Ambassador Interviewed in H.K,

without CHINESE WILL

TO

By trad: he was an archites and CONTINUE the fight is community will be able

Jewish

hope that in Shanghai the to assist still strong, according to the

11.

In China

LONDON, Nov. 21.

IN VIEW OF THE VISIT of Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax to Paris. Mr. Quo Tal-chi, the Chinese Am-

Hallfax bassador Bate Lord during the week-end, and apart drew from political matters. attention to the pillful plight of thina war victims.

While the sufferings of Ger- man Jews had justly exclied world sympathy, the Ambassa- dor was constrained to point out that over 100,000,000 Chinese were In far more. desperate straits, which seemed to comparatively unnoticed

go

Mr. Quo Tal-chi told Reuter that Viscount Halifax had re- crived the representations with the utmost sympathy, and the Ambassador said he believed that an attempt would be made to organise a scheme for Chinese rellet

International by operation-Reuter.

Co-

British Report

On Spain

British Ambassador, who Being Studied

a

Many other refugees revealed in conversation that they could not talk has just returned from TWO THOUSAND ARE ut political subjects, as it would long journey in the western KILLED, including many nung would suffer harsher treat-provinces. army officers and Government in return.

only ineau that their relatives still in

have been rendered home-hom came from Berlin and

tu

passage

Owing to a recurrence of an old

ye trouble, the Ambassador

was

wearing dark glasses. Otherwise he was fit and well after his extensive travels in the interior.

In reply to a question as to whe-

No Clue Yet To Future Government Policy

the

London, Nov. 21.

Mr. Francis Hemming, secretary of Non-Intervention Commitice, who has returned to London, has visli in completed a report or his Burgos, and communiented it to five Powers Great Brinn, France, Orr- many, Italy, and Portugal, on whose behalf he made the visit.

No decision has yet been

Laken

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr There were no Czecho-Slovakian granted an interview to Press ment officials, and 20,000 Jews on the ship, the great majority representatives this morning at Government House, before leav- less as a result of the holo- Twenty-two were able to get visusing for Shanghai on the Italian caust at Changsha, capitalin,

Sapore and landed at Manila. liner Conte Verde,

said they would have liked of Hunan Province, accord- to have landed at Hongkong, but be ing to field

dispatches cause they had not had time in which get British visas, this was im- received here to-day.

possible.

The refugees on the ship ali sald The dispatches state that the they had not been allowed to take her he had formed any opinion on whether he will return to Spain conflagrations at Changsha are more han £10 and their

the Chinese resistance, Sir Archibald and no meeting of the Chairman's the result of the Chinese money out of Germany.

Most of the men were of the skill-Isaid the Chinese resistance showed sub-committee has been convened. "scorched earth" tactics.

cd tradesmen al arlison class, 1 no signs of weakening

He agreed that he had met the Four-fifths of Chongsha have been though there were several doctors Generalissimo three times

in the reduced to ashes.-Domel,

and professional men on the chip.

were serene nad When the Conte Verde berthed, interior. Madame Chiang was with they were met by several prominent him and both Changsha, Nov. 22. Hongkong Jews, one of whom claim-confident.

Sir Archibald reveale that ነገሮ In another answer he said the con- Postal and telegraphie communica-ed to have been a refugee from Nazi

spent ten days travelling by car inditions under which belligerent rights tlons between Changsha and the periceution since 1933. outside world, which were disrupted He said he had been forced out of the interior on rough but not un-would be granted to both parties in recently owing to the Bre

He had Non-Intervention Commitice on July disaster, Portuguese East Africa, Australia, enmfortable reads and the engineer Spain remained as defined by the

Shanghai and Anally had settled 'ng daring surprised him.

on 5. So long as the proposals of that have now born realored.

down in a job in Hongkong.

used Government Rest Houses German women umong the re-his halts and found them most com- date continued to represent the un- animous programme of the committee, fueres told the Telegraph" they fortable.

PRESENT CONDITIONS

Two temporary postal offices have been established at the East Station

ተሰ

In the House of Commons Mr. R. A. Butler sald the report was under not yet in a position to come to any consideration and Government was aceision on future policy.

and Tsewumenkow in the city had not told their children why they Leaving Kunming by car he took the Government had adhered handle the Incoming and outgoing been forced to leave the country. six days to cover the 300 miles to them-British Wireless. mail.

"We just said the family was leav-tunon, then on by car to Chungking The Central News Awegen vasterdating for abroad," said one mother, from where he took plane to Hong- received two telegrams, which were "but when

children want to kong arriving in five hours.

It is understood that Mr. T. V.

the murin know what has happened to their the tu far received in Changsha since the uncles and aunties, we find it hard Soong was among the officials who umre received by His Excellency in confiagration.

to knew what to say."

Hongkong,

From conversations, it was reveal

ed that none of the Jews have de-

Jobs waiting for

New telephone and telegraph poles are being erected throughout the Many of the houses which city. were not damaged are now thrown Shanghal. open to accommodate the large num-

ber of retortion of the machinery |

A greater

in the power plant was not damaged

plant

will

three

finite

They confirmed

SOFT in Germany.

in

DONE ALL POSSIBLE

them

Between January 31, 1937 and the end of January 1938 approximately every way 24,000 Jews emigrated from the old stories of atrocitics and Reich,

In addition 45,000 Jews left Aus. "We left Trieste at the end of tria at the time It was incorporated and repair work is feverishly being October," said one of them, "Things, in the Reich. done with the expectation that the were very bad in Berlin then, but

resume operations within

heaven knows what has happened dally necessaries for since then."

Many of them said they would returning populace. have liked to have gone to Palestine, several co-operative stores have been but owing to the rush they were not established.

News of the execution of the able to procure vizas. officials responsible for the fire dis. aster was received by the ple with great excitement. Huge.crowds gathered to read posters announcing

execution.

the

To

The

of the

During the conference Hunan Provincial Government held

Paper Chaims Nearly 200,000 Left Reich

Essen, Nov. 21.

Vienna

Belligerent

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CHUNGKING, Nov. 21. CHINESE PRESS reports from Stanfu state that the Japanese

military authorities have messed five divisions in southern Shansi, with a large number of mechanised equipments. BIG WITHDRAWAL It is said that inside the city of Linching alone, 40 miles north-east of Fenglingtu, the

Rights Would Japanese have massed 300 tanks, to-day that there hurt

Be Dangerous

Warns Republican Spain's Minister

have applied for n permission to Sen. Alvarez del Vayo, accompanied

emigrate.

the

Chungking. Now, II, A Chinese military spokesman said been a pheno- menal withdrawal of Japanese troops and that reccat troops reinforce from the north Hunan front observed

four days. past ments in southern Shansi num-during ber over 20,000, who are all con- He said that Chinese troops had recaptured Pingklang, 55 miles north- cast of Changsha on the highway, scripts since the war began.

besides the recapture of other pointe, including South Yochow and Chung- yan, north-east of Yochow.

It is reported that the Japanese are busy commandeering carpenters to consiguet Junks"in preparation for the Japanese crossing of the river both on the west and south Aldes in the armpit of the Yellow River,

The papers report that over 2,000 Japanese troops are stationed Fengiingtu, with four field, pleces, which are responsible for the daily bombing across the river,

He said that the Japanese had left a small garrison in Yochow, and the. rest of the troops had returned northward.

vessels on

Paria, Nov, 21. Since then a further 12,000 Jews

Ever the Japanese The French Foreign Minister M. have emigrated from Austria. Ac-

newspaper at the Georges Bonnet received the Re- cording to this present moment,' 135,000 in

publican Spanish Foreign Minister

Tungting Lake, whch had recently cast shore, had withdrawn except for been very busy landing troops on the a dozen small steam launches at by the Republican Spanish Ambas- be sador in cannot

Part Sen.. Marcelino

In the meantime a Central News present still remaining off Yochow.

A Central News report says that "These applications

messa KC Bays that the Japanese met," adds the German newspaper Pascua y Martinez to-day.

particu- because foreign countries,

According to informed circles Sen. troops met with a crushing defeat in Japanese troops of the 100th Division the Yungcheng district, 60 miles and two Formosan regiments operat- larly Britain and U.S.A. with im-

ferred back to Japan due to the feet on that Republican Spain is endeavour-north-east of Fenglingiu on the ing on the Yangtze, had been trans- Figures regarding the number of measurable territory at their dis- Marcelino Vayo informed M. Bonnet

door on

that they were over-fatigued. and have lefting for the complete withdrawal of Tatung-Pukow railway.

It is claimed that Chinese guerillas

The report said that the 9th and on Sunday, a Changsha Fire Disaster Jews who have emigrated from posal, have closed the Eemereency Roilet Commission was Germany since 1933 are published Jewish immigration,

possible time.

pursued the Japanese up to the wall 20th Divisions were remaining in the Germany

of Yuncheng city in which the Japan-Hunan and Hupeh border regions formally organised with Mr. Yi Jen-by the National Zellung in an article the care of these Jewish existences the foreign volunteers in the shortest He said to have called M. Bon-

United Press, san at Chairman and Mr. Tien Han, drawing attention to the efforts that to

"Germany" the article concludes well-known Chinese writer, as Vice-had been made by the German au

thorities

facilitate

emigration, "has dash problem in

all in her power to solve net's attention, to the fact that these garrison was holding out.

It is said that fighting between the Chairman.

these atatistica the the

Central withdrawal is not making equal pro- The reller funds were tentatively According to

gress on the Nationalist side and Javanese troops and Chinese guerlilan AMA SA AND of which $200,000 number of Jews in Germany, ex-Europe.

"Judging from previous experi- emphasised the danger that would

Fraino, Cal. wil be appropriated by the National cluding Austria and the Sudeten

planning to advance to Sian Muitary Council and $300,000 by the land, on February 1, 1933 was 516,-ences its efforts are not likely to ensue if National Spain should be It is thought that the Japanese are

000,

A number of fruit packing houses 10,000 having meet with acknowledgment nor it is accorded belligerent rights, approximately

Tungkwan, but this measure is un- Hunan Provincial Government,

likely that anything will be done to

Diplomatic circles Tegard this con-wise until the suppression of the have adopted, a blue, Deg as on une It was also decided in the meeting emigrated by June 1933.

From this latter date until January reach a settlement. In the meantiate that Mr. Haigh. Tsu-lin, Mayor of

be dimissed from his post 31, 1037 the number of Jews in the Germany will continue to pursue the ference with more than the usual querillas in the entire province has omncial time keeper to inform every Chanbe

bust Old Reich aank by 107,000, net in bath which it has recognized us the intonat, prtoedit was it does the been affected, hence the latest natte one whether or not the plane angka 20 retain his duties-Central cluding reduction of 18,000 as tight one leaving the verdict to his visit of the Belin statesmen to inonsall fronts on the Shanal rimming when the ham i upaktere

tory."--/Trans-Ocean. result of death.

was raging is all corners of Shanghal. Flag Signal For Work

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THE CHINA NAVIGATION COM- TANY'S STEAMER Wachang, shown above at the Douglas wharf, will leave for Canton at 7 a.m. to-morrow, carrying large supplies of Hongkong foodstuffs and clothing for starving El destitute refugees in Canion Some of the cargo on the wharf is

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EUROPEAN WAR DANGERS INCREASE

Six Killed In New Border. Clashes

VIENNA, Nov. 21: DANGER OF AERON- increased TIER conflict

during to-day.

It is reported that there is a "growing uprising" in the mountains in the in- terior of Ruthenia.

The Government denies that villages have requested their transfer to Hungarian rule.

In Prague, it is officially ro ported that frontier guards repulsed a group of Polish.. terrorists, and killed one Pole.

A Prague report says that at east six have been killed in order claskes-United Press.

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